{"id":114273,"date":"2020-10-12T17:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T00:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/vr-objects-you-feel-are-a-step-closer-thanks-to-new-law-of-touch"},"modified":"2020-10-12T22:33:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T05:33:26","slug":"vr-objects-you-feel-are-a-step-closer-thanks-to-new-law-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/vr-objects-you-feel-are-a-step-closer-thanks-to-new-law-of-touch","title":{"rendered":"VR objects you FEEL are a step closer thanks to new \u2018law of touch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video controls=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"358\"><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2020\/10\/09\/8306043852260525372\/1024x576_MP4_8306043852260525372.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>The OEC need some VR sets next year.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Star Trek\u2019s holodeck, that lets people physically interact with a virtual world could be a step closer thanks to a \u2018universal law of touch\u2019, discovered by British scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/birmingham\/index.html\" id=\"mol-2db45f80-0a4c-11eb-8647-5d26163a3801\">Birmingham<\/a> focused on so-called Rayleigh waves \u2014 energy that passes over the surface of objects when they are struck.<\/p>\n<p>They found that, when it comes to touch, these waves also travel through layers of skin and bone and are picked up by the body\u2019s touch receptor cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OEC need some VR sets next year. Star Trek\u2019s holodeck, that lets people physically interact with a virtual world could be a step closer thanks to a \u2018universal law of touch\u2019, discovered by British scientists. Researchers from the University of Birmingham focused on so-called Rayleigh waves \u2014 energy that passes over the surface of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114289,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114273\/revisions\/114289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}