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Meta (Facebook), through its Meta Reality Labs research department, is developing a glove designed to give the wearer sensations that mimic the weight and feel of real objects when they are handled in virtual space. This is one of the many pieces that will make up Facebook’s big vision of : the Metaverse.
The tech draws on the relatively new field of , replacing bulky motors with tiny air valves. Meta has been working on it nearly since it acquired the Oculus VR startup in 2014. It developed its first prototype — one finger with a single actuator — in 2015.
Reality Labs head Michael Abrash recalls one of the first experiences with early prototypes, looking at a virtual plate from inside a VR headset — where a single actuator, combined with the virtual image and the sound of rubbing the rough ceramic, was incredibly convincing. “I saw the plate, and I saw my finger on the plate, and I heard the sound — that kind of scraping sound across it — and I felt the vibration,” he says. “And I will tell you, I was running my finger over a ceramic plate.”
Meta although says the haptic glove is still nowhere close to being released to the public.
“What we’re trying to do is figure out how to give you rich feedback so that your hands become fully useful,” Abrash says. “This is a key piece and one of the hardest, long-term riskiest pieces, but once this is in place, then VR can really become an environment in which almost anything is possible that you are effectively capable of doing.”
More at:
https://tech.fb.com/inside-reality-labs-meet-the-team-thats-bringing-touch-to-the-digital-world/
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28/04/2021
After a long year of social distancing, & quarantines..a look to an old iconic project revolving around new forms of living, confined and uncontaminated spaces…
Oase No. 7 is one of the many experimental projects by the famous Viennese group Haus-Rucker-Co. It was designed as part of the Documenta 5 exhibition in Kassel, in 1972. The
installation consists of a transparent sphere with a diameter of 8 metres, the sphere was placed in front of the main facade on the Friedericianum. A catwalk made of standard tubular steel sections projected through the window from the interior of the building into the transparent sphere.
Haus-Rucker-Co was founded in 1967 by Laurids Ortner, Günther Zamp Kelp and Klaus Pinter,
later joined by Manfred Ortner. Their work explored the performative potential of architecture through installations and happenings using pneumatic structures or prosthetic devices that altered perceptions of space. Such concerns fit with the utopian architectural experiments of the 1960s by groups such as , , Ant Farm and Coop Himmelblau. Alongside these groups, Haus-Rucker-Co were exploring on the one hand, the potential of architecture as a form of critique, and on the other the possibility of creating designs for technically mediated experimental environments and utopian cities.
After 47 years a reinterpretation of Oase n.7 was realized by in Milan inside
during 2019 Milan’s Design Week.
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15/04/2021
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