When searching for your flashlight in a tent at night, you must rely on tactile information to identify objects. The visual representation of the shape of your flashlight might facilitate your search.

A stylus with unique properties has been patented by Microsoft that we hope gets produced at some point. The stylus can determine the color of a physical object by holding the tip to it. This could be ...

Having long been successful with "talkies," Disney has developed technology that could allow the creation of "feelies." While designed more for touchscreens than the silver screen, the REVEL system ...

Two new beta tools for Adobe Substance can generate object textures and staging environments using text descriptions. Two new beta tools for Adobe Substance can generate object textures and staging ...

To researchers’ surprise, deep learning vision algorithms often fail at classifying images because they mostly take cues from textures, not shapes. When you look at a photograph of a cat, chances are ...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has hinted at the potential for AI-generated textures and objects in future games. This development signifies the continued evolution of machine learning in the PC market, ...

For the study the researchers recruited 35 dogs who were trained to fetch a target object from a set of distractors. During testing, the dogs were presented with two choices: one matching the target ...

When working in Substance Painter, I like to set up my objects so that they are assigned with separate texture sets. When each object is assigned it’s own texture set, you can easily show/hide the ...

Monkeys have feelings too. In a mind-meld between monkey and computer, rhesus macaques have learned to “feel” the texture of virtual objects without physically touching a thing. In the future, ...