{"id":2537,"date":"2002-10-30T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2002-10-30T06:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/30\/first-transatlantic-handshake-shows-off-internet2\/"},"modified":"2002-10-30T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2002-10-30T06:37:36","slug":"first-transatlantic-handshake-shows-off-internet2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200210\/first-transatlantic-handshake-shows-off-internet2\/","title":{"rendered":"First transatlantic handshake shows off Internet2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite> <font Size= -1>The handshake went through a Phantom &#8212; a device that combines robotic and force-sensing technology to detect the feel of a surface by the way it reacts to a probe. The vibrations set up in this way are digitised and transmitted over the Internet to another hand-held object, which is made to vibrate in sy?pathy to the original probe. &#8220;You can not only feel the resulting force, but you can also get a sense of the quality of the object you&#8217;re feeling &#8212; whether it&#8217;s soft or hard, wood-like or fleshy said Mel Slater, Professor of Computer Science at University College London (UCL) and one of the leaders of the research effort.<\/font><\/cite>  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.co.uk\/story\/0,,t269-s2124692,00.html\">ZDNet<\/a> <br \/> Interesting. But where does Internet 2 come into the picture? They have also gratuitously thrown in IPV6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The handshake went through a Phantom &#8212; a device that combines robotic and force-sensing technology to detect the feel of a surface by the way it reacts to a probe. The vibrations set up in this way are digitised and transmitted over the Internet to another hand-held object, which is made to vibrate in sy?pathy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}