In particular, visitors learn how complex patterns arise from simple rules. Typical force-feedback devices use a grip or thimble, but users of Haptic Screen can touch the virtual object without wearing anything. Haptic Screen employs an elastic surface made of rubber. A 6 X 6 array of 36 actuators deforms the surface and controls its hardness according to the force applied by the user. An image of the virtual object is projected onto the elastic surface so that the user can directly touch the image and feel its rigidity.
Users experience clear stereoscopic vision, without glasses, of a broad field of view.
This 3D display offers access to a virtual stereoscopic world without special glasses. In ancient times, mythology was the high-tech method for storing data on a society's history, rituals, and ethical systems. The paradigm in use for these early information systems was storytelling. Man and Minotaur allows visitors a chance to portray the two ancient combatants and the gods that taunt them within a fully immersive, synthetic version of Dedalus' Labyrinth in ancient Crete. In Video Totem, expressionistic visitors create and view their own mythologies on a large digital totem pole.