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Old 2011-02-19, 04:17   Link #12063
Jinto
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Originally Posted by Ithekro View Post
Speaking of holograms, I found this one via Starwars.com. Slightly older tech news, but it is relevant to this topic.
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns...021253061.html

Touchable Holograms invented at the University of Tokyo.
So it does use ultrasonic sound, which bsically means they just added interaction by tracking a users movement in an accustical way (like bats). That does not mean the user would experience any resistance from the hologram, but still the user could interact in a certain way with it. However... the proposed applications in the article... I don't know if it is worth the technical overkill (at least not for switches... I am sure a hardware switch will less often malfunction than a virtual switch that uses a much more complex way to determine if it is on/off.. or in general... is interacting with something/someone).
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