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Touching Developments

http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/31534.html

One of the major hurdles to a viable networked virtual reality has been developments of haptics technology, allowing the sense of touching/feeling to be extended beyond the individual body. The article dicusses research developments in this area, and suggests that while the initial enthusiasm about VR was [like just about every other IT/high tech enthusiasm] overblown, nevertheless we will be able to move forward in this area.

The real question: will we want to? Whether this becomes a limited niche market or the realization of reams of SF depends on consumer acceptance, itself often something which can be neither predicted nor reasoned with.