It wasn’t too long ago that virtual reality seemed like a sci-fi fantasy at worst and a far off dream at best, but at this point it seems like just a matter of time. New Scientist is reporting that a new company by the name of UltraHaptics has designed an advanced system of projected sound waves that create 3D virtual objects that you’re actually able to feel with your hand.
“We’ve been working on this for over four years,” Tom Carter, the CTO of Ultrahaptics, told Mashable. “The goal of the company isn’t to launch its own product, we want this tech to become embedded in lots of different products, from clocks, to home appliances to cars. To do that, we needed to engage OEMs as a company.”
The British company originally developed the system at the University of Bristol’s research labs. The developers are able to deliver different haptic feedback and virtually tactile shapes by using the system to pulse the feedback of ultrasonic waves or changing their modulation frequency, according to Discovery News, as demonstrated in this video.
“Touchable holograms, immersive virtual reality that you can feel and complex touchable controls in free space, are all possible ways of using this system,” said Dr. Ben Long the lead developer behind the system, as quoted by CNET. “In the future, people could feel holograms of objects that would not otherwise be touchable, such as feeling the differences between materials in a CT scan or understanding the shapes of artefacts in a museum.”
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