Sunday, February 10, 2008

VIDEO: Mixed Reality Avatar You Can Actually Touch

NTT DoCoMo unveils its latest virtual humanoid project, U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi, "an interactive robot that appears as a computer-animated character when viewed through a special head-mounted display." Video after the break.

Destined to support you in your state of involuntary abstinence, the U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi system maps a pretty girl onto the robot's anatomically correct, green-cloth surface with the help of a sensor-equipped head-mounted display worn by the lonely, lonely man. The result is a 3D character you can touch and "interact" with
[via Engadget]



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[Source: Tech Blog]