A television set where the viewer can not only view the picture in 3D but also touch and feel the character is soon going to be a reality as per a Japanese research team who are into developing just such a TV set.

Senior Scientist Norio Nakamura of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and who heads the research team gave this information saying “It is the first time that you can feel images in the air.” He mentioned over telephone talk that “You can have the sense of touch like poking a rubber ball or stretching a sticky rice cake.”

Cameras that sense the direction of movement of the viewers finger changes the orientation of the character in respect to the movement that has been sensed.

The main use of this technology would be in the field of surgery and also in video games so that the participants can actually experience the feeling of holding the instrument or weapon or item. How long the process would take to turn into reality is yet to be seen.

There was the possibility of using this technology for supplementing existing reality with scanned images as per Nakamura who ended by saying “This technology could create a virtual museum where visitors, including vision-impaired people, can put their hands on valuable sculptures that are usually untouchable.”

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