Touch Light Through the Leaves: A Tactile Display for Light and Shadow

Kunihiro Nishimura, Yasuhiro Suzuki, and Michitaka Hirose,
Touch Light Through the Leaves: A Tactile Display for Light and Shadow,
SIGGRAPH 2010 Emerging Technologies, Los Angeles, 2010.

You can feel something good when light falls through the trees into the upturned palms of your hands. With this visual-tactile display, users can sense that light and feel the transition between light and shadow.

Touch Light Through the Leaves consists of a camera and 85 vibration units. The camera detects light and shadow, and the vibration units, controlled via image processing and vibration motors, change those inputs into tactile sensations. The display is palm-sized, so it can be used anywhere under various conditions.

People who have experienced this display report weird, new sensations. In their daily lives, light and shadow are perfectly ordinary, but when they feel light and shadow directly on their palms, they are "touched" by light for the first time.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SIGGRAPH 2010
• emerging technologies
• virtual reality
• interaction
• The University of Tokyo
• SIGGRAPH
• etech
• tactile
• light

[anarchris]

if they applied this technology to a full body suit, and instead of using light as the input use another machine as the input? that way it would give feedback if someone was using the suit as a controller for a big robot. like from avatar or gundam, but with feeling through the suit