[HN Gopher] 3D display could soon bring touch to the digital world
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       3D display could soon bring touch to the digital world
        
       Author : curiousObject
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2023-08-13 07:18 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | hliyan wrote:
       | This seems extremely rudimentary. I was hoping for at least some
       | sort of high resolution pinscreen [1] technology with actuators,
       | with a pixel at the top of each pin.
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       | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuir24PLt-8
        
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       | fallat wrote:
       | Easier alternative is manipulate the nervous system, i.e.
       | extremely low power shocks, like how real life works. Or
       | pneumatics.
        
       | whycome wrote:
       | These articles should really just come out and say the obvious:
       | these could be used to augment sexual experiences.
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       | Is our future AI generated visuals and audio via VR goggles while
       | under "3D touch" blankets?
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       | UnderCover: "Bringing the Digital to the Digital"
        
         | rsynnott wrote:
         | ... I mean, unlikely. For some people, perhaps, but I'd imagine
         | it would always be very niche. Most people would presumably
         | just, well, have sex.
        
       | Pulcinella wrote:
       | Seems lower resolution than the MIT Media Lab Inform project from
       | years and years ago.
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       | https://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/
        
         | tayistay wrote:
         | From the paper [1]:
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         | > However, these existing approaches typically face multiple
         | drawbacks which limit their proposed applications, including
         | (i) surface discontinuities
         | 
         | Which cites the MIT inFORM project (3 in the references).
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         | [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39842-2
        
       | mgrund wrote:
       | Saw similar tech at Microsoft a decade ago. Use case I saw was to
       | raise buttons on software keyboards. Here's an article on the
       | patent from 2010: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/microsoft-
       | patents-bumpy-...
        
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