http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/ Engadget Comments for Force feedback controller allows you to "touch" CGI objects http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 1st 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 1st 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 1st 2009 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fLXdC6LRYQ
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fLXdC6LRYQ#t=1m45s]]>Jul 1st 2009 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/It was very nice!]]>Jul 1st 2009 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/]]>Jul 1st 2009 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 3rd 2009 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 1st 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 2nd 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/
http://www.sensable.com/haptic-phantom-desktop.htm]]>Jul 1st 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 2nd 2009 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 1st 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 1st 2009 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 1st 2009 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/
Nice to see, but rightly so been around for years!]]>Jul 1st 2009 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 1st 2009 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 1st 2009 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/tactile porn, now they just have to incorporate the interface into something wearable

next thing is the USB controlled Fleshlight or maybe that already is available

although the next generation of interactive "touch" computing could also be a potential market
closer and closer to Minority Report
]]>Jul 1st 2009 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/
Oh wait. Too late.]]>Jul 1st 2009 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 1st 2009 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 1st 2009 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.3dconnexion.com/3dmouse/spacepilot.php

I used to use their serial Spacemouse for Virtual Reality Design back in 1994 - it was the best 3D controller bar none, developed for the space program IIRC. I still use it with Google Sketchup now!

They have a consumer version for about £50

I also developed a Parkinson's disease simulator using the Sensable Desktop Phantom back in 2000 - it was excellent if a little flimsy and I can't see why anyone would be reinventing the wheel with the haptic part.]]>Jul 2nd 2009 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/
"NERDS CAN FINALLY HAVE HOT GIRLS*
*the girls are fake"]]>Jul 1st 2009 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 1st 2009 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 1st 2009 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/
We've been using technology like this for years now to create Virtual Veins: http://www.ukhaptics.co.uk/VirtualVeins.aspx a simulator to train for venepuncture and cannulation, we currently use the Sensable Omni device which looks a bit more user friendly and less likely to break than this one. ]]>Jul 2nd 2009 5:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://home.novint.com/index.php Novint Falcon.

this stuff has been around forever.]]>Jul 2nd 2009 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxfjFRs22cg .]]>Jul 5th 2009 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/Jul 2nd 2009 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/force-feedback-controller-allows-you-to-touch-cgi-objects/How similar do you all think those are to patent # 5,652,603 issued 1997 (invented in 1993)...

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