Tactile air interface

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webwit
Wild Duck

21 Jul 2013, 11:51


Findecanor

21 Jul 2013, 14:10

"Nearby flying seagulls"...

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Muirium
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21 Jul 2013, 14:22

Yeah, we're living in an airy fairy future, all right. Get the gulls around here doing that, and you'll get tactic feedback stuck all over your clothes.

The mechanism is lame, but using air to provide haptics is pretty sweet. Perhaps we'll get some good stuff out of this in time. I'm still waiting for my projected keyboard to feel like a Topre:
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(Tenchi Muyo: 1992. We've been imagining this stuff for a while now.)

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webwit
Wild Duck

21 Jul 2013, 14:35

Another demonstration:

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002
Topre Enthusiast

21 Jul 2013, 16:13

Haha. Orrrr... [NSFW]:
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rzwv

21 Jul 2013, 20:24

002 wrote:Haha. Orrrr... [NSFW]:
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JBert

21 Jul 2013, 22:41

imgur nixed it. 0_0

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cookie

22 Jul 2013, 12:09

Wow this aireal kicks ass! I am verry impressed

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webwit
Wild Duck

22 Jul 2013, 12:20

It has limited application because it only works when the computer knows in advance what is going to happen. Like 3D balls moving towards you. But if it would project two big buttons, and you wave at one, the reaction time will be too slow to provide real-time feedback.

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cookie

22 Jul 2013, 12:31

ahh thats right, so you need "n" number of those things, or a whole wall full of them! :D

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webwit
Wild Duck

22 Jul 2013, 12:35

That won't cure reaction time.

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ne0phyte
Toast.

22 Jul 2013, 12:38

He doesn't mean the reaction of the mechanism for x/y rotation but the delay until the air reaches your body.

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cookie

22 Jul 2013, 13:14

Ahhhh, now I got it! Thanks for the explanation!

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