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New ‘4D Goggles’ allow wearers to be ‘Touched’ by Approaching Objects

4-D goggles developed at UC San Diego. Credit: Photo by Ching-fu Chen

4-D goggles developed at UC San Diego. Credit: Photo by Ching-fu Chen

A team of researchers at UC San Diego and San Diego State University has developed a pair of “4D goggles” that allows wearers to be physically “touched” by a movie when they see a looming object on the screen, such as an approaching spacecraft. The device was developed based on a study conducted by the neuroscientists to map brain areas that integrate the sight and touch of a looming object and aid in their understanding of the perceptual and neural mechanisms of multisensory integration...

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