{"id":26411,"date":"2024-04-20T22:33:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T03:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26411"},"modified":"2024-04-20T22:33:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T03:33:15","slug":"passthrough-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26411","title":{"rendered":"Passthrough, part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eventually (although not soon), we will be able to use a combination of visual, audio and haptic feedback to create a multi-sensory experience that feels just like reality. In a sense, the challenge here is to pass something akin to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turing_test\">Turing test<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The test would go something like this: If I am collaborating with two people, one of whom is sitting directly across a table from me and the other is 1000 miles away, can we create an experience of presence with sufficient fidelity so that I cannot tell which is which?<\/p>\n<p>For example, if the person sitting directly across from me passes an object to me across the table, I should be able to see it, hear it slide across the table, and feel it as I take the object from my collaborator. I might also feel a slight resistance as the other person lets go of the object.<\/p>\n<p>Can I replicate this experience with a person who is 1000 miles away by using multi-sensory passthrough? At what point does the combination of visual, audio and haptic passthrough sufficiently match the fidelity of physical co-presence so that I can no longer tell the difference?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the answer. But I think that this would be a very worthy goal to strive for, and that research in this area would be very exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eventually (although not soon), we will be able to use a combination of visual, audio and haptic feedback to create a multi-sensory experience that feels just like reality. In a sense, the challenge here is to pass something akin to the Turing test. The test would go something like this: If I am collaborating with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26411\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Passthrough, part 5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26412,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions\/26412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}