Okay, enough of this motion controller hoo-ha and 3D nonsense. Let's move on to the Next Big Thing. Temperature! The MIT Technology Review has a short article about experimental controllers that can heat up and cool down.
A pair of thermoelectric surfaces on either side of a controller rapidly heat up or cool down in order to simulate appropriate conditions in a virtual environment...The temperature difference isn't large - less than 10 degrees heating or cooling after five seconds, but the researchers involved discovered that...just a little sensory nudge can be enough to convince involved participants in a virtual environment that they are experiencing something like the real thing.There's even a graph that proves users notice faster when the controller cools down than they notice when it heats up. Do you know what that means? Me neither.
(Thanks Slashdot!)
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