Hapticity » ocular displays http://hapticity.net postcards from the cutting edge Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:29:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Green groper http://hapticity.net/2007/10/12/green-girl-groper/ http://hapticity.net/2007/10/12/green-girl-groper/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:20:41 +0000 David Birnbaum http://tactilicio.us/?p=40 U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi combines a head mounted display and a robot to create a tangible avatar:

I like this idea. Since light, inexpensive, portable force-reflecting handheld interfaces are a long way off, why not couple physical objects with virtual vision technology to touch virtual objects? Moreover, using ocular displays, I could imagine a similar system for changing the appearance of our robotic companions on the fly, forgoing the need, for instance, to mechanize their facial expressions.

(via Gizmodo, Pink Tentacle, Robot Watch)

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