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Japanese Scientists Bring Sci-Fi To Reality With Touchable Holograms

Japanese Scientists Bring Sci-Fi To Reality With Touchable Holograms

In a research paper titled “Fairy Lights In Femtoseconds: Aerial and Volumetric Graphics Rendered By Focused Femtosecond Laser Combined with Computational Holographic Fields”, Japanese researchers explain the theory behind the creation of what is colloquially known as touchable holograms or “Fairy Lights”.

These holograms, as explained in the research paper, can be rendered aerially or…

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SmartVoice: A Presentation Support System For Overcoming the Language Barrier

Authors: Xiang Li, Jun Rekimoto

Abstract: In most cases, speeches or presentations at an international event are required to be given in a common language (e.g. English). However, for people who are not proficient in that common language, delivering presentations fluently is very difficult. Simultaneous translation seems to be a solution, but besides its high cost, simultaneous translation undermines the nature of the presentation by substituting the real voice of the lecturer as well as his/her emotions. In this paper, we propose "SmartVoice", a presentation support system, which aims to overcome language barriers. By tracking the lip motion of the lecturer, SmartVoice controls the playback of the narration, which is a sound data prepared in advance or created automatically using a voice synthesizer. SmartVoice also controls the intonation of the sound based on the position and shape of the lecturer's mouth. As the lecturer can talk at his/her own pace with the voice automatically following, it appears as if he/she talks in his/her own voice. In our user evaluation, we confirmed that audiences find it difficult to distinguish between the narration generated by SmartVoice and that by a real voice. We also discuss the possibility of applying SmartVoice to fields other than multi-language presentation support, such as Automated Dialogue Replacement and language study.

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Mind-blowing: three-dimensional mid-air acoustic levitation and manipulation. Research done by a team of three Japanese engineers, Yoichi Ochiai, Takayuki Hoshi and Jun Rekimoto from The University of Tokyo and the Nagoya Institute of Technology.

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SCIENCE!

Three-Dimensional Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation

or

Hovering shit with ultrasound