Remember last week’s post on the inFORM, MIT’s morphing table? Well they just released a new video showing off what it can do, and it’s pretty impressive.
The new setup features two separate interfaces, and they’ve added a display so you can see the person who is manipulating the surface. This springs to life a whole new realm of possibilities for the tactile digital experience. The inFORM also has a projector shining on the surface, which allows the objects shown from the other side to be both visually and physically seen — they use an example of opening a book and displaying its pages on the surface. To track the hand movements they use a plain old Microsoft Kinect, which works extremely well. They also show off the table as a standalone unit, an interactive table — Now all they need to do is make the pixels smaller…
Stick around after the break to see some more awesome examples of the possibilities of this new tactile-digital interface. There are also some great clips near the end of the video showing off the complex linkage system that makes it all work.
[via Gizmodo]
This is really awesome, I want my table to pulse when I get a call.
Ya. Very awesome system, I cannot wait till the technology catch up with the idea, it will be the ultimate real 3D experience for “Remote Doing”
Remote Dong
FIFY
Incredible. MIT Media Lab does it again.
Looks like a cool platform for implementing breakout.
Anyone else feel like they’re looking at an old claymation show, like Gumby & Pokey?
It really does look like stop motion!
Try having sexual intercourse with it.
/sarcasm
Maybe one day Tony..
It does look possible.. Hmm virtual prostitution – wipe well after use !! :D
It’s not too unrealistic that this would be big in the cybersex industry. For instance soldiers could have cybersex with their wives.
Or somebody else’s wife / husband .. LOL
The porn industry is holding their breath waiting waiting..
So if you look back about a year or two in the comments Ive left on here this is actually my idea I posted a while back. I have to say I am grateful to get to see my idea take shape. I think they hit exactly what I was envisioning when I was posting on the racks of pins that you put on your hand and they make another hand. Now if they can shrink the tubes and the mechanism to move them this has serious potential.
Citation needed
You mean this idea which itself is very simple and already shown in movies, but the implementation is hard?
Is that what you’re boasting about?
Well i think it was actually my idea to make the Earth round and then use force to push the mountens out of the ground. And i am also very glad that my idea takes shape.
Those contours reminded me of voxel rendering.
900 actuators, I wonder what the power draw and cost of it is.
Because I think we’ve all thought about the concept in the past, but it’s the pricetag that really kept normal hackers from trying it I expect.
Wow, it would be awesome if this technology would develop until it looks like the system they use/d on Krypton (Man of Steel)
Tetris !!! please !!!.
Maybe using old dot matrix type of actuators would enable it to be made finer and maybe cheaper, OTOH those actuators do not do half a stroke.