Tag: haptic

Present

Reality is Plenty, Thanks

Post author By David
Post date June 16, 2011

Animal Superpowers

At the recent MobileMonday 21 conference, Kevin Slavin (co-founder of Area/Code) gave a fascinating talk on the field of augmented reality: “Reality is plenty, thanks.” And in her blog, Helen Walters gives a great summary: Slavin makes the case that much of the current work in AR is wandering down the wrong street (albeit one […]

Tags Animal Superpowers, augmented reality, Che-Wei Wang, child, Chris Woebken, haptic, Helen Walters, Kenichi Okada, Kevin Slavin, Kristin O'Friel, MobileMonday, Momo

Quick

Lists: Old Browsers, Videophones, & Haptics

Post author By David
Post date January 31, 2011

Retro Videophones: Videophone in Metropolis, 1927

Three interesting lists on the OObject website: Retro Videophones 10 Obsolete Web Browsers 12 Haptic Intertaces With most items on the lists you can click to go to additional background info. Pretty fun to explore…

Tags browser, haptic, phones, quick, videophone

Future Present

New Haptic Possibilities

Post author By David
Post date October 18, 2010

The first time I experienced a haptic interface was back in 1990, when I got a demo of Margaret Minsky’s Sandpaper system at MIT. Using a force-feedback joystick, users could move the screen’s cursor across a textured area and the joystick would simulate the feeling of resistance and surface. It was pretty cool to see […]

Tags Fabian Hemmert, haptic, Margaret Minsky, Nokia, phones, TeslaTouch, touch