8 Incredible Prototypes That Show The Future Of Human-Computer Interaction

Every year, the Association for Computing Machinery--the world's largest scientific and educational computing society--gathers to explore the future of computer interaction in a legendary conference called CHI. It's an amazing event, in which thousands of researchers, scientists, and futurists get together to push the boundaries of what it means to interact with machines. It's a dizzying collision involving enough ideas about what the future of man and machine will look like to put the world's science-fiction authors out of their jobs for good. This year's CHI 2016 conference in San Jose was no exception--but among the hundreds of projects, here are eight that stood out. The problem: In VR, objects might look real, but they don't feel real.