Revel: Programming the Sense of Touch

This is amazing - "reverse electrovibration" is used to make any conductive surface coated with an insulator into a surface that they can program to simulate textures:

@Richard.Hein: You should add it's coming from DisneyReserchHub. If it weren't from a credible source i'd say it's 100% vaporware, now it's down to 80%

1 hour ago, fanbaby wrote

@Richard.Hein: You should add it's coming from DisneyReserchHub. If it weren't from a credible source i'd say it's 100% vaporware, now it's down to 80%

Noted.   Well, it does seem like vaporware but they are demoing it at Siggraph, this week! 

Speaking of touch interfaces ... the Japanese are the weirdest people on Earth (NSFW??).

I have no problems believing you can induce a tactile stimulus with a modulated voltage; it's way too easy to experience that by mistake. What I don't get is how it's supposed to work without a touchscreen: I believe that, in order to provide the appropriate feedback, the device needs to know where the user is touching, and with good accuracy; yet, in most of the applications it's not obvious where they're getting that information from.

If the device works as advertised, it would constitute a major breakthrough in augmented reality, well beyond tactile feedback, as it would turn pretty much anything into a touch surface.

@Richard.Hein: A robutt. Classic argument about mandatory spellcheckers.

Got to say it is kind of creepy to run current through my body. And then able to feel artificial texture of an object.