as small as a world and as large as alone

10:56pm November 13, 2013

scienceing:

prostheticknowledge:

inFORM is a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way. inFORM can also interact with the physical world around it, for example moving objects on the table’s surface. Remote participants in a video conference can be displayed physically, allowing for a strong sense of presence and the ability to interact physically at a distance. inFORM is a step toward our vision of Radical Atoms: tangible.media.mit.edu/vision/

tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/

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This is going to enable a lot of interesting new interactions between people and technology!! So rad.

The very first thing I think of for things like this is assistive technology, especially communication technology, for people who are unable to interact in the usual computer-oriented ways.  I hope people will go that direction with it because there’s tons of people who could communicate that way and don’t have a system of communication now.

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