Having long been successful with "talkies," Disney has developed technology that could allow the creation of "feelies." While designed more for touchscreens than the silver screen, the REVEL system ...

When searching for your flashlight in a tent at night, you must rely on tactile information to identify objects. The visual representation of the shape of your flashlight might facilitate your search.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has hinted at the potential for AI-generated textures and objects in future games. This development signifies the continued evolution of machine learning in the PC market, ...

A stylus with unique properties has been patented by Microsoft that we hope gets produced at some point. The stylus can determine the color of a physical object by holding the tip to it. This could be ...

For the study the researchers recruited 35 dogs who were trained to fetch a target object from a set of distractors. During testing, the dogs were presented with two choices: one matching the target ...

Displayed representation of a scene or an object that appears to have three axes of reference: height, width, and depth (x, y, and z). Anti-aliasing is sub pixel interpolation, a technique that ...

New Apple patent details a tablet stylus which can simulate texture of on-screen objects and surfaces US Patent & Trademark Office Apple is working on a stylus which can simulate the feeling of ...

Researchers have provided the first empirical evidence that the way in which dogs relate words to objects is fundamentally different to humans. Many pet owners marvel at their dog's ability to fetch ...

Monkeys have feelings too. In a mind-meld between monkey and computer, rhesus macaques have learned to “feel” the texture of virtual objects without physically touching a thing. In the future, ...