Disney Creates New Mid-Air Haptic Technology

An anonymous reader sends word of a new technology from Disney called AIREAL, featured at this year's SIGGRAPH 2013 conference in Anaheim, CA. It's designed to give tactile sensations to people who are using motion control devices. The device can track a target, like a user's hand, and send a compressed ring of air quickly through the intervening space to provide haptic feedback. They say the device is both inexpensive and scalable. Several of its parts are easily 3-D printed.

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[DexterIsADog]

Are there applications for interactive porn? I don't know how much push they can put in those air rings, but if it's enough to stimulate a penis, I say... blow me.

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[Cryacin]

Great, so now dead space 4 will not only have nasties jumping out of the dark, but a gentle wisp of breathing on my neck as well.

I think the sales of adult diapers will be going through the roof.

Re:3D Boobs

[gagol]

You know a blow job is not simply blowing air on a penis, right? There is a suction part missing to make it happens.

Re:3D Boobs

[Anonymous Coward]

Use the other end of the device.

Re:3D Boobs

[davester666]

Yeah, the part with the fan.