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YOU are playing a video game, and your avatar is creeping into a haunted house at the dead of night. Suddenly, you freeze in your chair. Something is crawling up your back... Whether this idea appeals or not, researchers at Disney have made such sensations possible by inventing a system that fools players into thinking that objects are moving against their skin. Their brainchild, known as Tactile Brush, creates the illusion of being touched by anything from falling rain to crawling insects. One of the illusions the team employs is called apparent tactile motion. If two vibrating objects are placed close together on skin in quick succession, people often experience this as a single vibration moving between the two points of contact. In a related illusion, known as a phantom tactile sensation, a pair of stationary vibrations is sensed as a single stimulus placed in between the two. Apparent motion has been around since the early 1900s and phantom sensation since 1957, but this is the first time anyone has used them to provide precise tactile feedback. Ali Israr and Ivan Poupyrev at Disney Research Pittsburgh studied these illusions with the help of volunteers who sat in a chair backed by a grid of 12 vibrating coils. By operating the coils in different sequences and at different intensities, they worked out how to induce the sensations of apparent motion and also persuade the volunteers that they were feeling extra coils that didn't exist, which creates a more realistic effect. Israr and Poupyrev incorporated these two illusions into software that controlled the coils, which convinced the person sitting in the chair that shapes were moving across their back. At the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held last week in Vancouver, Canada, the researchers demonstrated a driving game that makes use of Tactile Brush. Players feel a force from the chair that mimics the experiences of cornering and accelerating by activating the coils in sequence to sweep across the back. In other early tests, Israr and Poupyrev have simulated the sensation of raindrops running down skin by tracing a vertical line downwards. Israr describes skin as an unexplored display surface. "Two metres squared - that's the total area of our skin," he says. "It's a big area." The team is also working on a wearable device with vibrators in the sleeves and around the torso. Disney wants to develop systems that could augment the company's amusement park rides. Israr suggests that riders could experience the sensation of wind and rain sweeping over them, or insects crawling over their backs. "I'd really like to get it into movie theatres," adds Poupyrev. He says it would help movies to compete with DVDs and home cinema. "3D is already there. Movie theatres will become more like amusement parks. Movies will engage all the senses." http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028137.900#.U05PSfldV14

This may be the worst thing ever in gaming. What a joke

I love the human brain, it hasn't got a fucking clue what's going on, ever

Just watched both edits, nice to see something different than sniping and rocket launchers. : :

It's completely over turned now, pretty awful that this sort of thing can happen. My thoughts and prayers go out to all those effected.

He probably changed it back after I accosted him on Twitter about it hahaha

I still think of him as Snoop-A-Loop as Frank the Tank called him in Old School

Dylan's probably invented one already

I'm going to play the shit outa this game when it gets released!

Me, Dave, Dylan and Euan basically

It seems like they are trying way to hard to make more money. Or trying to get the people who stopped playing back on. I think its a total waste of money and literally stupid. Plus if you are a season pass holder any DLC stuff that comes out we should get, and not have to pay for this $.99 or $1.99 crap. But thats just my opinion on that. Here's an idea, instead of having new camos to purchase make challenges for the gamers to unlock these unique camos. So there has to be unique challenges to unlock these. It would make it interesting and not everyone will have them due to the time they have to put into it. Another opinion of mine which would be nice to see in future CoDs.

They'll probably have a Miley Cyrus DLC pack out next! Call of Duty Ghosts is a fucking joke now. It's not the best of games and the worst in the series for me but now IW are just oozing desperation and sheer stupidity. Christ just think how COD used to be and what it has become now.

I am bored, and lazy, but I want to know how to make video game video's for youtube and shit Cal, I love your Prison Architect videos, and was debating on doing some for Minecraft and Space Engineers, but I don't know how

So I don't watch Soccer, sorry, I prefer HandEgg (US Football) to it, but I keep hearing mention of the Hillsborough 1989 disaster Looked it up; and DAMN also, apparently this happened a few days later as a sign of solidarity Four days after the Hillsborough disaster, in the European Cup semi-final between AC Milan v Real Madrid, the referee blew his whistle two minutes into the game to stop play and hold a minute's silence for those who lost their lives. Halfway through, AC Milan fans sang “You’ll Never Walk Alone”.

fuck you Nasri.

all those times when you are like " wat the fuck, why didnt my nade hit them"..."why did my nade bounce back"...."why am i hitting people point blank range with an HE shell and not getting a kill?" .....fucks sake.

boom, crystal kingslayer theory (spoilers duh): http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/heres-exactly-how-the-biggest-jerk-in-all-of-game-of-thrones (seems to explain the conspicuous blueish-purple color he turned before croaking . . .)

I think the Europa League is punching a bit above their weight. I wonder if the Intertoto Cup still exists? That maybe ideal; if not, I'm sure they'll reignite the Anglo Italian Cup Sorry Rich

One of the most cringe worthy jokes I've ever heard.................... What's the difference between Jesus Christ and a Painting? You only need one nail to hang a painting.

It's a good thing Man Utd are within the thresholds of FFP, otherwise their participation in the Europa League next year would be in serious doubt.

Personal Review: First off, this game is still in Alpha stages, its one of Steam's Greenlight projects. So keep that in mind please So I played this for about 2 hours last night. I'm not 100% sure of it. It could be fun, but the main focus of it is more building and then raiding your neighbors for supplies. Guns, Rockets, and Turrets are easy as hell to make, where as Reactors and other components are pretty complex. Sure this is actually true to life, but I more so enjoy the building aspect of things. IDK, part of me regrets purchasing this. Part of me really enjoys the free flying aspect and being able to make massive mining ships and space stations, but the problem is whats the purpose, whats the end result? Once you have a reactor, you never have to worry about dying to loss of energy (Food) You don't have to worry about air at all in fact. The largest worry there is, other than other players coming and shooting you in the face, or sitting at range destroying everything you built in the last few hours, is Metorites. Holy fucking god I was sitting there, mining for some uranium to make another reactor, and BAM explosions all around me. Quick video, because the meteors will destroy your shit Right now there is nothing you can do to protect yourself, other than Stack multiple layers of armor, or hollow out an asteroid and build inside of it. I have no idea if they plan on putting in some sort of point defense system to target asteroids, or even to put in some sort of shield. (Minecraft has all these in Tekkit and FTB for the mod packs with Meteor strikes, so I can imagine that Space Engineers will do something similar) I think my biggest problem so far with the game is that once I had a reactor, I stopped being scared of what I could and couldn't do. When I died, and I did a few times on purpose, and to accident, you arrive on another ship, which you can immediately salvage for free armor, cockpit, thrusters, landing gear, Reactor, and occasionally a gravity generator....... So basically, if you kill yourself a few dozen times right at the start, you never have to worry about dying again...... (unless some asshole raider comes along, shoots you, and then swipes your shit) The game is in Alpha though, so I expect most of this to be worked out in the end, but right now, I sort of regret spending my sons birthday present to me on this. Thoughts on Multiplayer: Much like Minecraft though, I think this game would be amazing if there were community projects and people working on a server not hellbent on shooting up everything they see. Thoughts on Controls: way to much going on here, there is a button for literally everything. Which typically I would be okay with, except, when you are mining in an asteroid, you have to hit "T" to actually pick up what you are mining, and there isn't a setting to just auto loot... which annoys the absolute piss out of me. Closing Thoughts: Looking at the various creations out there, I think this game could be badassed, but right now, I just don't know. I need to look at what it takes to have a private server, I believe they are free, but I have no idea where they are hosted. Playing on a public server was pointless, It was worse than Day Z to be honest. I mined for about an hour or so, with some dude flying by in his little spaceship, watching me, and never talking. Once I had a reactor, and a decent platform up, he and his friends brought a ship around and started salvaging all I had done, I started yelling, and one of them shot me. I respawned, flew in, and it happened again, and they salvaged my respawn ship..... I stopped playing on that server after that. I started jacking around on a single player game, and looking at the various builds folks have out there. Link to a google image search: Some of my favorites so far:

Kyle reppin his homies, forgot you were G

While I think this fucking stupid, why wouldn't he do it? I mean, he's getting paid to just say a few lines of text. Any one of us would do it. Also, he's just following Ice Cube into the video game realm. Ice Cube has been do voice work for a few years now. Just my $.02

This guys knows! ^

Nope not a clue Could you imagine the line of creeps queuing up to buy that

June 20th release date stated by a few retailers;

I see the words; touched, vibration and sensation. Can't they just concentrate on inventing a handjob simulator instead? It'll sell a buckload

I actually think I am more shocked that Snoop would do something like this after all he is a "OG". He went from one of the best rappers in the 90's to whoring himself out. 2Pac would be ashamed.

also , so satisfying to see him get knifed after camping in that building for ages....urgh

wtf does Snoop D-O-DoubleG have to do with any of this?? Well you know every lobbies now gona be filled with 8 year olds, whilst everyone else goes back to blops2

Awwwwwww yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee In all seriosuness, stupid for obvious reasons. Atleast Infinity Ward knows it's target audience. But that Gunny voice? Yes. For all CoDs, from now on.

new Tutorial for the game So I just bought this and am going to play around with it tonight. If I ever figure out how to record myself, I will and then show you guys whats up

Hi all, a very good friend and relation to my girlfriend has spent the last year or so creating, what i think to be, a great film. I don't want to say too much because their words will be better than mine but they are looking for the last bit of funding that they need to bring the film to life. This is completely original idea and is a metaphor for the world today. Please read and watch the trailer and if you feel it deserves it and you can afford it, please donate to their dream and if you think it's worthy enough please share on other forums and social sites. To anyone who give this a look, thank you, it really means a lot <3 http://kck.st/1eFrq3i To anyone who give this a look, thank you, it really means a lot <3

this one made me cringe:

"It's neither cruel or unfair if you fight 6 or 7 of them at a time."