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A new 3-D display lets you reach in and touch virtual objects (www.sciencenews.org)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A new device renders 3-D graphics that users can grab, drag and rotate. Such interactive visuals — which can be seen without a VR headset — could help create new hands-on educational tools or museum exhibits. They might also be used to make 3-D artwork or video games.

Bouzbib and colleagues at the Public University of Navarre in Pamplona, Spain, replaced the flat screen with a row of elastic strips like the ones used in the waistbands of stretchy pants. Users could then reach down into the display, fingers slipping through the oscillating strips, to touch virtual objects. Cameras tracking the user’s hand allowed them to pinch, swipe, spin and otherwise manipulate the graphics.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well going by the title ... i mean technically that is possible with all monitors

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is for porn, right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What isn't?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Betamax

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I thought betas could only get porn?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Not going to lie, I kind of love this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Mix this with a haptic glove and that would be pretty neat.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Add it a couple of ad banners, and you will have a queue of investors. And I did not mention yet the AI, which could be for the second round of funding…

Edit: Of course I’m being sarcastic. BTW, I like the haptic gloves idea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Where’s the blockchain?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Arriving soon on the hyperloop.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Bouzbib is such a cool last name

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Reminds me of this research from a few years ago, though the technical aspects of that are hard to find online. It seems much less interactive than this, but contains some precursor concepts about manipulating a shared projection of a physical object.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

This is a really unique approach to the challenge. I hope they find a way to make it durable. Right now, it looks like someone could easily hook onto and yank on the strings, ruining what I’d imagine is a really delicate mechanism.

I foresee it being a hands-off display in any public/consumer setting until they figure that out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

This seems like development on the "hologram" technology that was attempted like this ages ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I like it alot.