Ivan Poupyrev, the lead behind this project shares:
When we roll a pencil in our fingers, we can very quickly and precisely re-adjust the 3-D positions and grasping forces of our fingers by relying entirely on tactile sensation.It also allows us to understand fine object properties where vision fails; textures and tiny surface variations can be accurately detected by touch.
Touch has also strong emotional impact — running a finger into a splinter, touching a cat’s fur, or immersing fingers into unknown sticky substance all bring intense, though very different, emotional responses.
The thought of taking the tactile feel of touch screen technology is exciting and yet there’s something that doesn’t sit with me about it; perhaps it’s the thought of bringing “virtual” technology another step closer to being as real as real itself.
Minority Report but like really-real.
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