[Cyborg] Aireal: Interactive Tactile Experiences in Free Air
Eric Boyd
mrericboyd at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 21 14:47:29 UTC 2013
http://www.disneyresearch.com/project/aireal/
It looks really cool! Basically, vortices of air are directed at the
user as they interact with a motion detection system (like Kinect or
Leap Motion), and the air pressure changes are the haptic feedback. I'd
love to know how it actually feels. It looks to me like one of the big
limitations is gonna be the lag time - it's gonna take a noticeable
amount of time to generate and propagate the air to the user, so
feedback can't be super fast.
They claim they 3D printed most of the device. The actuators are
actually speakers ("whisper subwoofer"). I imagine if you have a leap
motion you could hack together something like this...
Eric
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