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TORC stands for 'TOuch Rigid Controller' - it can deliver the feeling of a squeezable object.
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TORC stands for 'TOuch Rigid Controller' - it can deliver the feeling of a squeezable object.
Fnar fnar indeed...!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by HEXUS
Not to be skeptical, but this does not seem so ground breaking..
Reminds me of SGI ball input..
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silicon_Graphics_Ball-IMG_4192.jpg
Well, ....Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
Pseudo-compliance??Quote:
TORC can convey the feeling of texture and pseudo-compliance of objects that are varying degrees of firm - like a silicone ball, to squishy, like a stress ball. Meanwhile the dexterity of finger movement it affords and haptic feedback allows for realistic manipulations ....
.... Riiiight.
/backs away from thread cautiously.
...........I'll be in my bunk!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Saracen999
:lol:
/Dives head-first into the innuendo-ripe thread, to see how deep and dark and wet it goes!!! :) :whip::p:naughty:Quote:
Originally Posted by Saracen999
Not going there, TTask. I have some idea how admins think, and I'm not touching that one with a 100ft-long, sterilised, remote-control bargepole.
With haptic feedback...Quote:
Originally Posted by Saracen999
"Feedback" is what I'm worried about.
The kind schoolboys (in my day, at least) inserted a physics textbook into their trouser seat to guard against. I don't want a size-12 admin kick in the tush.
It will really be interesting if it is a some kind of exoskelet with sensors.
If that's a likely outcome, then why are they posting giggle-fest articles about fondling virtual silicone spheres??!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Saracen999
That would be entrapment!!
That link refers to a 6DOF controller for graphics applications from the 90's that had a real sillcon ball that forms part of the controller to just control the screen with no feedback.Quote:
Originally Posted by lescompa
The device in the OP is intended to be used im a VR controller with 6DOF that incorporates "virtual softness" that makes you think you are holding a silicon ball, or anything else. It's VR for you sense of touch.
It's like you just tried a 100% realistic holodeck simulation of a ride in a car and said "big deal I've seen a car ride before"!
anyone see the BBC article yesterday refering to the other article from CES that won an award, then had it retracted but has now had it reinstated? From the comments above I'm guessing that's where this kind of tech is presumed to be targeted...
A more respectable use is presumably medical rehab and physiotherapy. (Just to try to balance the thread.)
There was a lot of upset over that, yeah. More to do with the category entered, although similar products have been allowed at CES previously:Quote:
Originally Posted by ik9000
Might be NSFW - https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/8/18...-award-revoked