When it comes to gaming, the more realistic the better, right? Sure, it’s all fun until we start talking about being virtually sliced with a battle axe or pelted with a rocket launcher — exactly the idea behind a new technology dubbed “phantom sensation.” Researchers at the University of Electro-Communications know that to virtually recreate the feeling of touch , they need to apply vibrations to two points of skin. Taking the idea one step further, they applied the stimuli to either side of the body to mimic what it might feel like if the object actually passed through.
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