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If the promise of haptics is so self-evidently appealing, if our digital disconnection makes us ever more skin-hungry, why have haptics devices consistently failed to take hold? Is it simply, as many in the field suggest, a question of not-good-enough tech that will inevitably get better? That’s what Meta and the half-dozen other companies bringing haptic gloves to market are betting on. https://reallifemag.com/cant-touch-this/
@estherschindler i suspect that even perfected haptics will have trouble catching on. i think that many people won't want that close a connection to the machine.
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I suspect it's "not good enough tech that will never get good enough", myself.
This is like Lewis Carroll's mapmakers in "Sylvie and Bruno": once they figured out that a map with the fidelity they sought would be the size of the entire country, they just decided to use the country itself as a map, instead.
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