Thursday, August 26, 2010
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.
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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.
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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.
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