10 August 2009

holograms providing tactile feedback


I just came across the video above via a eNewsletter from Gizmag. to summarize: the idea of holograms providing tactile feedback was presented in 2009 SIGGRAPH by students from the University of Tokyo.

below are a couple excerpts from a presentation for a class I took at OSU. the objective of the course was to submit design ideas which sought to improve the quality of one's living room experience regardless of technological contraints. to summarize this project: this floating hologram would control all of the electronics in a users' home. one of the features of this technology included tactile feedback (shown in the images below).

here the user is selecting "yes" to continue watching the movie from the previous night.


profile view of the hologram, depicting the tactile feedback.

while watching the movie, the user decides to dim the lights in the living room.

when I presented this project, many people's first reaction was "that's impossible." however (as previously mentioned), the objective of this project was to design without technological constraints under the pretense that engineering restrictions are only a matter of time before they're overcome.

"Now that we can make anything, what will we make?"

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