{"id":152674,"date":"2022-12-12T15:27:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/this-virtual-reality-headset-allows-you-to-kiss-over-long-distances"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:27:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:27:52","slug":"this-virtual-reality-headset-allows-you-to-kiss-over-long-distances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/this-virtual-reality-headset-allows-you-to-kiss-over-long-distances","title":{"rendered":"This virtual reality headset allows you to kiss over long distances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3q6dZQfV1x8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At number 20 on IE\u2019s 22 best innovations of 2022, we take a look back at this intimate invention.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine kissing someone you love long distance? As sci-fi films have showcased this is one innovation that is desired by many. In May of 2022, Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Future Interfaces Group released a new invention that consists of a headset that can achieve just that.<\/p>\n<p>This impressive achievement was done using ultrasonic transducers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ibrahim Can\/Interesting Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, the headset recreates the sense of touch on a wearer\u2019s face \u2014 for example, a kiss on the mouth \u2014 without adding any parts that actually cover that area.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/this-virtual-reality-headset-allows-you-to-kiss-over-long-distances\">Continue reading \u201cThis virtual reality headset allows you to kiss over long distances\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At number 20 on IE\u2019s 22 best innovations of 2022, we take a look back at this intimate invention. Can you imagine kissing someone you love long distance? As sci-fi films have showcased this is one innovation that is desired by many. In May of 2022, Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Future Interfaces Group released a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152674","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}