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This story is from the category Augmenting Organics
Posted by: Site Administration Date posted: 25/06/2007 Vadas Gintautas and Alfred Habler of the Center for Complex Systems Research at the University of Illinios are the first to create a truly linked and synched virtual/physical system. They connected a physical pendulum with a virtual version that moved under time-tested equations of motion. To get the two pendulums to communicate, the physicists fed data about the physical pendulum to the virtual one, and transferred information from the virtual pendulum to a motor that influenced the motion of the physical pendulum. The physical and virtual pendulums swung at different rates when they were first introduced. After a brief encounter in a dual reality state, they simply could not connect. Friction caused by the overcompensation of each to the other, quickly brought them to a halt. The physicists adjusted their swing frequencies until they were more or less on the same wavelength. Upon the next meeting, the fit was near perfect, and the two pendulums moved naturally in unison, defying friction entirely. The findings are quite profound really: Mixed reality can occur only when the two systems are sufficiently similar. See the full Story via external site: www.sciencedaily.com Most recent stories in this category (Augmenting Organics): 03/02/2010: Crafting Light-Sensing Cells from Human Skin |
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