Watch: A Hologram You Can Touch
Star Trek predicted and inspired many technologies we often take for granted these days. From automatic sliding doors to portable, handheld communication devices – what was completely in the realm of fiction just a few decades ago is now actual. Fans of the show will be delighted to know that another fictional technology from it will soon become an ubiquitous reality: holograms you can touch and interact with.
Holographic technology made impressive strides over the last decade, with holographic singer Hatsune Miku “performing” to crowds of thousands. Japanese researchers are now taking the technology another massive and cool step forward.
Researchers in haptics – the science of touch – from the University of Tokyo’s Department of Complexity Science and Engineering (DCSE) have invented the “Haptoclone” – an interactive system that allows for a completely novel method of communication, one they dubbed “telehaptics.”
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