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Imagine reaching out and physically shaking someone’s holographic hand when you’re Skyping them for the first time. Or how about giving a hologram version of a friend you’re chatting with a hug while you’re in two different countries?
Haptics researchers from the University of Tokyo’s Department of Complexity Science and Engineering (DCSE) are aiming to make this a reality.
They’ve invented “Haptoclone,” an interactive system that allows for an experience they’ve dubbed “telehaptics.” With Haptoclone in its current form, you can send a holographic image of, say, your hand from one box to another box in front of another person. The cool thing is that Haptoclone also lets the other person experience the illusion of touching your holographic hand in their box.
“It would be great to allow people in different locations to communicate with one another while experiencing a sense of touch. We could, for example, put a transparent glass here and divide the room,” explained researcher Yasutoshi Makino, gesturing at the point where the two components making up the Haptoclone device meet. “Imagine if you were in a zoo, and there was a lion on the other side of the glass that you could have the sensation of touching.”
The researchers presented their idea earlier this year at SIGGRAPH 2015, an international conference on computer graphics and emerging technologies.
These Japanese Researchers Are Making Holograms You Can Touch
The Haptoclone is an interactive system that creates holographic images that you can "feel."
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