free idea: a silicone putty with sensors in it that can harden as whatever controller you want
2
3
11
Conversation
add a number of vibration motors and you also have force feedback, let it not harden at all and you have a screen but for hands
1
2
10
actually due to [dayjob] I am mildly experienced in this area and could totally make it work
1
2
would need a competent EE person for wireless power and miniaturization of the nodules, and idk if there's a putty that's up to spec
1
1
but there's a huge niche for "gesture recognition interface that 1. works at all and 2. has force feedback"
1
2
current video recognition-based gesture interfaces simply can't deal with hands occluding each other and themselves
1
1
force feedback is limited to, like, what was the state of the art, ultrasound and airflows? I've not even used this, it's that experimental
1
1
an alternative to the putty would be a reconfigurable skeleton with an elastic skin, less messy but more unknown and harder to fix
ideally I'd have something like a small shoggoth that could reconfigure itself but I don't know of anything that would allow it to do that
1
1
hmm trying to think of a workflow
say you have a 3d object on a screen and a bit of putty in front of you
software matches nodules to mesh
1
Show replies