Aireal – Interactive tactile experiences in free air

July 19 2013

Aireal is a device that can create interactive tactile experiences in free air. It is developed by Disney Research and will be presented at this year’s SIGGRAPH conference.

They have made a demo in which the device creates the sensation of touch “caused” by a projected butterfly landing on the hand. In another part of the example they show how objects in the environment can be part of the experience. Sweet!

More on the Disney Research website.

July 21 2013

Neat idea, applicable for mass market, not so sure. Anyway, I’m looking forward to try it at SIGGRAPH this coming week.

July 26 2013
Miguel Peres permalink

Camille, did you actually tried that? I am kind of curious to know how strong are the vortexs created by that tinny subwoofers without any sort of amplifier.

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