This 3D Motion Simulator Is Powered By People
Haptic Turk is a prototype game that uses your friends as virtual robots to do immersive motion simulation at home. The research project from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany demoed a flight simulator variant at CHI2014 last week: the player wears 3D goggles and lies in two slings held by four friends—the “human actuators”…
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Man inventing cell phone that can kiss you
Ever wished your phone was a little more… intimate? Fabian Hemmert, a design researcher at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany, certainly does. “Mobile phones use so little of our sensory abilities,” he says. “They are great for information exchange – text, video, and speech – but they provide no feeling of nearness.” That’s…
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Jacob Aron - New Scientist
