Tag Archives: haptic

I should say I never felt the need to tickle a bug, not even sure if tickling is something that bugs experience, like/dislike. Yet a team of researchers at the Ritsumeikan University  noticed that with our big human fingers it would be impossible to “tickle” a bug and therefore took …

The recent announcement of the Mercedes Hyperscreen creates, as they say (watch the clip) a Wow factor. Indeed, the screen covers the whole dashboard, door to door -141 cm-, in front of the driver and the front passenger. It is curved and shaped to fit the dashboard, quite different from …

OK, I wouldn’t have published this news on April 1st, it would surely have been taken as an April fool. I had to check in several places to be convinced it is not a prank. I even looked at the original in Russian: cows are enjoying Virtual Reality! На ферме …

Communications Communications is an integral part of any smart entity. Without communication an entity cannot be smart (it won’t be aware of its context, hence it would not be able to adapt to it). Better communications foster smarter behavior, it is an integral component of smart machines (and smarter humans/machines …

Disney has always been about … magic, so no wonder they came up with a Magic Bench. At Disney research they have come up  creating a magic bench for you to sit on and enjoy an immersive virtual reality. The bench is placed in front of a very large screen …

Actually, the virtual touch feature opened up, along with its possibility, a can of worms. How can you trust the sensation you get from touching a virtual cashmere wool shawl?  Will it correspond to the real one you will get from the one delivering by the UPS drone? Is the …

Following yesterday post on Smart Cities as a collection of autonomous  systems, in symbiosis with citizens, today I propose a scenario where citizens, humans, are augmented and in symbioses with technology extending their capabilities. I am looking forward to your comments. These will be taken into account in a Whitepaper …

Robotics researchers at San Diego UC university have announced the development of a soft glove that can provide (artificial) tactile sensation in a virtual reality world. They demonstrated it by playing a virtual piano, seen through VR goggles, providing the sensation of touching the keys with your fingers (watch the video …