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posted by martyb on Thursday August 20 2015, @03:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the waiting-until-they-mount-one-on-a-droid dept.

[translation mine] The holographic technology Aerial 3D, based on using laser-induced plasma, enables modifying air molecules to give the appearance of brilliant points of light, and thus creating pixels in suspension. However, the technology is dangerous because it can burn the skin.

Japanese researchers at the University of Tsukuba have augmented the speed of their lasers to create holograms, still based on plasma, but which can now be touched in complete safety.

In order to heat air molecules to make a pixel of light appear, the researchers fire ultra-short laser bursts on the order of femtoseconds (a millionth of a billionth of a second).

The ultra-short bursts cannot damage the skin. The holograms drawn in the air react in real time to touch and generate haptic feedback. For example, one can break the hologram with a touch and feel the shockwaves generated by plasma, as though the light had physical substance.

Disney imagineer Ivan Poupyrev presented a technique at Makers Faire a couple years ago that used directed puffs of air (vortices) to create haptic feedback.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @03:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @03:33AM (#225684)

    Does this mean we, who can't get a human female to save ourselves, can finally get our own anime girl? Or maybe those expensive sex dolls will become more than dolls, with only a few necessary parts in meat/rubber-space and the rest made of this hologram stuff.

    I'm really wondering now if the year 2100 (if civilization survives that long) will be totally unrecognizable to us here in the 2010's--even more so than it would be to those in 1910 vs now?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @04:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @04:22AM (#225703)

    They banned men marrying girl children.

    You used to beable to get "and anime girl" for all of human existance.
    Young girls act like girls.

    What makes you think the cunts wouldn't ban that too?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @09:11AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @09:11AM (#225765)

      You are very retarded if you cannot handle a grown up woman. Learn to be a man.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @10:55AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @10:55AM (#225783)
        Why encourage him to interact with grown up women? If people like him only fucked dolls there would be fewer people like him.

        There are already 7 billion people on this overpopulated planet.

        Way past time to start focusing on quality and not quantity.