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POINTLESS THREAD III: ESCAPE FROM RAPTOR MOUNTAIN AGAIN
Carl-E:
I want a theramin interface. Move through the fields to influence... whatever it is you're influencing.
LTK:
--- Quote from: Dliessmgg on 10 Nov 2011, 08:10 ---why the iPad isn't The Future
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It's all well and good to claim that devices without tactile feedback suck, but the thing is, we rely on visual feedback from almost all of the technology we use. That isn't going to change, because relying on one sense puts a limit on how well you can implement methods of interaction with other senses. In other words, if you absolutely want to utilise force feedback on your smartphone, you'll have to get rid of the screen. And even without the screen, there aren't many non-portable interface devices that take full advantage of human tactile capabilities. The best we can currently do is force feedback from a keyboard (or anything with buttons). Gamers may even use proprioception when playing games with a mouse. But properties like shape, pressure, texture and temperature are useless for interacting with technology because getting any sort of feedback from it requires the physical presence of the object itself to change. And that's practically impossible.
But hey, at least he made a nice-looking page layout.
Barmymoo:
I don't see why it would be too unrealistic to expect that, with our ever-growing understanding of the way our physical senses work and the fact that (in my limited understanding) it's something to do with electrical impulses, technology could some day replicate the sensation of touching something in 3D, on a 2D screen - or even a projection.
LTK:
The somatosensory system is very well understood, but to replicate that kind of sensation you'd at least need a couple dozen electrodes implanted into your arm. (Though I bet people wouldn't hesitate to do so if they had Apple written on them.) Even then, you'd still have to deal with the lack of physical presence of an object; you'd be able to feel a simulated object, only your hand goes right through it.
Zingoleb:
@ Carl-E - I'm thinking suddenly of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - the part where Zaphod has found the radio station he wants, and is now sitting as painfully still as possible so any accidental movements don't change the station on him. (A flying pencil scrambles it all in the end anyways, though)
--- Quote from: LTK on 10 Nov 2011, 07:49 ---All but the third gif are hotlink-blocked. But that third one is awesome because the white cat is basically looking on, stunned, at what the other one is doing.
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Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffftokay.
(When I previewed it, it didn't have a hotlink blocker. Odd.)
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