Microsoft researchers develop TORC for rich haptic feedback

[HEXUS]

TORC stands for 'TOuch Rigid Controller' - it can deliver the feeling of a squeezable object.

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[Ttaskmaster]

it can deliver the feeling of a squeezable object.

Fnar fnar indeed...!!!

[lescompa]

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

[Saracen999]

Fnar fnar indeed...!!!

Well, ....

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 ....

Pseudo-compliance??

.... Riiiight.


/backs away from thread cautiously.

[Ttaskmaster]

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 ....

...........I'll be in my bunk!!

/backs away from thread cautiously.

/Dives head-first into the innuendo-ripe thread, to see how deep and dark and wet it goes!!!

[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.

[kalniel]

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...

[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.

[rave_alan]

It will really be interesting if it is a some kind of exoskelet with sensors.

[Ttaskmaster]

I don't want a size-12 admin kick in the tush.

If that's a likely outcome, then why are they posting giggle-fest articles about fondling virtual silicone spheres??!!
That would be entrapment!!

[EN1R0PY]

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

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.

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"!

[ik9000]

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.)

[Ttaskmaster]

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...

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:
Might be NSFW - https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/8/18...-award-revoked