"Touchable" Holograms

[Mr Pwnage]

It reminds me of this thing they had at our local movie theater where they project objects from the ceiling onto the floor (like soccer balls) and you can actually kick em around and stuff...
Or this billboard that was at the airport advertising an insurance company. It was a pile of leaves in the shape of an umbrella and whenever someone walked by, the leaves blew around.

Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't seem ALL that exciting to me...

The difference is, with this one you can actually "feel" those objects that you are moving around. Imagine if when you kick the soccer ball, you feel the impact on your foot. Or when you walk by the leaves you feel a rustling of some sort. The important thing here is not the interaction from person to virtual object, it's the interaction from virtual object to person. We now have the ability to have the sense of touch in a virtual environment whereas previously we would have to visually locate the object in order to make certain we are interacting with it correctly.

And one day we will be able to virtually feel a bullet going through our bodies in virtual FPSes.

Won't that be wonderful? Oho!

Holographic sex toys!!!

[EpicPhailure]

It reminds me of this thing they had at our local movie theater where they project objects from the ceiling onto the floor (like soccer balls) and you can actually kick em around and stuff...
Or this billboard that was at the airport advertising an insurance company. It was a pile of leaves in the shape of an umbrella and whenever someone walked by, the leaves blew around.

Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't seem ALL that exciting to me...

The difference is, with this one you can actually "feel" those objects that you are moving around. Imagine if when you kick the soccer ball, you feel the impact on your foot. Or when you walk by the leaves you feel a rustling of some sort. The important thing here is not the interaction from person to virtual object, it's the interaction from virtual object to person. We now have the ability to have the sense of touch in a virtual environment whereas previously we would have to visually locate the object in order to make certain we are interacting with it correctly.

And one day we will be able to virtually feel a bullet going through our bodies in virtual FPSes.

Won't that be wonderful? Oho!

Holographic sex slaves!!!

Fixed.

[Jake]

Holographic sex slave monkeys!!!

Fixed.

[Specialboy]

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

[Aqua]

A thick, skin like rubber cylinder. For what, you ask?

Well, for strangling. What else?
~Aqua

[Mr Pwnage]

A thick, skin like rubber cylinder. For what, you ask?

Well, for strangling. What else?
~Aqua

The fact that you sign your name "~Aqua" after cracking a joke like that makes me chuckle, but not at your joke. ;)

~Mr Pwnage

[Jake]

A thick, skin like rubber cylinder. For what, you ask?

Well, for strangling. What else?
~Aqua

Strangling? Is that like masturbation?

[Mr Pwnage]

A thick, skin like rubber cylinder. For what, you ask?

Well, for strangling. What else?
~Aqua

Strangling? Is that like masturbation?

Holographic fleshlight, I believe is the reference.