Japanese reaserchers create 3d holograms you can touch!

[Silicate Wielder]

Most of us understand that a hologram is a projected three-dimensional image made up of beams of light. If you put your hand up to a hologram, it’ll pass straight through. Now, a team of Japansese researchers have devised a way to give a hologram a “surface” that you can feel when it touches your hand. The result are holograms that you can actually interact with using your hand, and can feel when you “touch” them.

The researchers, led by Professor Hiroyuki Shinoda of Tokyo University, have devised a projector that not only displays the hologram in open space, but also includes a pair of Nintendo Wii controllers that can sense motion and the position of your hand in the field where the hologram is being projected. That way the computer controlling the hologram knows where your hand is when you interact with it.



http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/japanese-researchers-create-holograms-you-can-touch-2011069/touchable-hologram/

[Straight]

If you want more wii hacks, Look at this ted talk:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKCrGvShZs

Absolutely incredible, I was amazed by his first demo on how to make a cheap smart board,
But the second demo was even better...

[Thunderstorm]

Of course the Japanese would be the first to achieve this...

[Guillermo]

Well, it's no surprise when Japan is one of world's leaders' in electronics, technology, science. Maybe the U.S. could create advanced technologies such as holograms and leading robotics if we laid off of the military spending.

Not like that will happen any time soon, though.

[Troy35216]

Please state the nature of the medical emergency.

[Lost in the Echo]

It didn't really look as cool as you made it seem.