[infoshare] Fw: [VICUG-L] Fwd: Video Description Taken to the Next Level!
- From: "Maria" <malyn87@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Info" <infoshare@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:43:14 -0400
Hi all,
Below is an interesting tidbit.
Maria
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From: "John Sanfilippo" <vze33fba@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Leslie Jones" <ljones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Dalia Sakas" <DaliaMS88@xxxxxxx>; "Maria Rios" <malyn87@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Fwd: [VICUG-L] Fwd: Video Description Taken to the Next Level!
Impact on the Met and art appreciation? For whatever it's worth ...
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From: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 8, 2010 10:52:23 AM EDT
Subject: [VICUG-L] Fwd: Video Description Taken to the Next Level!
Japan develops 'touchable' 3D TV technology
A Japanese research team said Thursday it had developed the world's first
3D television
system that allows users to touch, pinch or poke images floating in front
of them.
It is the first time that you can feel images in the air," said Norio
Nakamura,
senior scientist with the research team at the National Institute of
Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology.
"You can have the sense of touch like poking a rubber ball or stretching
a sticky
rice cake" when manipulating images, he told AFP by telephone.
The technology changes the shape of
three-dimensional images
in response to "touches", aided by
cameras that monitor how the fingers move, Nakamura said.
It is not known when the
Technology will be put to practical use but its creators see it being
used to simulate surgical operations and in video game software allowing
players to experience the sensation of holding weapons or sports
equipment.
It could even use scanned images to supplement existing realities, said
Nakamura.
"This technology could create a virtual museum where visitors, including
vision-impaired
people, can put their hands on valuable sculptures that are usually
untouchable,"
Nakamura said.
(c) 2010 AFP
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