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Petimo: A cuddly social networking toy for kids

News: Communications    May 9, 2010
Petimo and its navigation menus. Credit: Mixed Reality Lab It’s kind of round. It’s kind of furry. It’s for kids about 6 to 10 years old. It just won a first prize at the 2010 Innovation Circus in Milan, Italy. It’s called Petimo and it’s a social networking computer interface that doesn’t look or work [...]
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iFeel_IM robotics: Online touchy feely

Impact: Virtual/Augmented Reality    April 14, 2010
This story comes under the heading: “They said this was going to happen – now it’s almost here.” It is a wearable robotic device that provides a real sensory element to a personal contact over the Internet. More specifically, it interprets emotional language embedded in Internet Messaging (IM), which is why it’s called iFeel_IM (intelligent [...]
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Going for the full-body controller

News: Virtual/Augmented Reality    November 8, 2009
From the mouse and joystick, to the haptic hand, to the wii motion controller – the next (big) thing in gaming, and a lot of other things, is a commercial version of the full-body controller. Like it sounds, the goal of full-body controller research is to capture gestures and movements from the entire body: Legs, [...]
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