Posted on 04/13/2022 7:17:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The start-up is working on a metaverse wristband to be used alongside a VR headset.
The wristband aims to allow users to move around in the virtual world but feel sensations like pain and the weight of objects.
It works by electrically stimulating a wearers arm muscles.
A user is said to be able to feel sensations like their skin being pinched or a weight in their hands.
Emi Tamaki, the CEO of H2L Technologies...told the FT: "Feeling pain enables us to turn the metaverse world into a real [world], with increased feelings of presence and immersion."
Tamaki is a haptic technologies researcher, which means she looks into tech that involves a sense of touch.
Tamaki isn't alone in wanting to make people feel things in the metaverse.
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is also working on a vibrating glove that could help you feel sensations.
The idea is that the tech will make you feel more immersed in virtual reality.
(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...
Great, I can go to the MetaVerse to experience pain. Sign me up.
Exactly.
Wristwatch ain’t gonna cut it, to really allow users to feel the social media they’re gonna need an anal probe.
This technology could be used as an interrogation/brainwashing technique (or a punishment).
Expect a rousing success in signups.
Fluid exchange?! EWE!
It will probably be mandatory, along with your digital wallet.
Then every time you vote, reach for the person with an R next to his or her name, you get a painful zap.
If you manage to check the R despite your pain, the digital wallet is emptied.
Swell what next? Go to meta universe to experience “rral life” explosive diarrhea and projectile vomitting, and shingles and sinus and bladder infections and such?
When I worked for a major cell phone company, I visited their “R&D” brainstorming headquarters for new products. It was mostly a bunch of 20 somethings in a very “hip” location right out of a movie.
Anyway, they showed us this new idea where you could attach a thin membrane device on your clothing (like your arm), or even in your clothing (sewn into your shirt, fore example) and it could be connected to your phone and someone could send you a “hug” via text that would cause it to vibrate so you knew you got a hug.
After they finished showing us, I asked the obvious question: “So, you could put that on ANY part of your body to get a ‘hug’”?
Awkward silence and few giggles.🤣
Or you could just listen to a Phillip Glass album....
LOL! Is that why you no longer work for the major cell phone company?
Heh. I moved from Seattle to Kentucky.
To me, the question was obvious. I mean, I remember the first thing that was huge in home videotape was porn. The first thing that was huge in CD players for computers was porn. And don’t even get me started on the internet. Just watch the movie “Middle men”.
You KNOW these kids were joking about that exact application long before I asked the question right out loud. 😎
There will be a small number of Meta users who will say they still feel involuntary and intrusive sensations long after that wrist device has been removed. One has to be careful when
using ‘virtual’ hardware.
I am definitely invoking Rule 34. Enough said.
One day, a new executive joined the company from the parent organization. I learned that he was a talented engineer who had been in charge of the Betamax project.
When he discovered I was reasonably fluent in Japanese, he called me in his office one day to confess why he had been transferred. It was sort of a demotion but he was making the best of it.
He told me that the main reason the Betamax failed (even though it was a smaller media and superior technology) and we had lost out on the VHS format to our arch rivals Toshiba was because Sony had refused to make prerecorded videos of porn since we were a family oriented company. Toshiba, on the other hand, correctly predicted that exchange of such videos would put their VHS format out in front.
Keep in mind that this was the early 1990s just after the Columbia Pictures acquisition. It was about 15 years later when working for another Sony subsidiary that we finally got our sweet revenge when Blu-Ray won out over the HD Video format of Toshiba.
That was fascinating. I actually sold hi-fi back in the 70’s and early 80’s. I loved Beta and hated VHS. I had one of those first BIG beta machines and also a nice sleek black beta hi-fi machine. I literally considered it the replacement to open reel and used it as such. All the VHS machines would sometimes “chatter” in hi-fi mode, but the beta was rock solid.
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