Unreal MIT invention Inform – allows you to reach through the screen and touch things.
Recently unveiled, inFORM is MIT’s new scrying pool for imagining the interfaces of tomorrow.
Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away
inFORM can also interact with the physical world around it, for example moving objects on the table’s surface. Remote participants in a video conference can be displayed physically, allowing for a strong sense of presence and the ability to interact physically at a distance.
Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, and Hiroshi Ishii, describe inFORM as a Dynamic Shape Display “that can render 3-D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way.”
This new device allows the user to move objects around without having to actually physically be there to touch them. It also allows someone on one side of a video screen to physically interact with objects sitting on the other side.
The screen uses a Dynamic Shape Display that can create 3-D objects out of digital information.
The Dynamic Shape Display is such that it can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way.
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