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3D Glove Input Device

Posted by michael on from the wave-of-the-future? dept.

Elyjah writes: "A company called Essential Reality is devloping a 3D Glove input device. They have several demo movies you can watch (if you have Quicktime). The movies show the glove being displayed by runway models (this is amusing), being used in several FPS games, being used as an interface to a a 3D graphics development tool (this looks really cool), and being used with a music application. While truely usable devices like this are probably several years off, it is fun to see what is being worked on."

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  1. Re:Nintendo? by Svartalf · · Score: 4

    (no one's tried to hack this for the Linux ... yet).

    I do believe you're wrong... :-)


    http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/hardware/driver s/ linux-powerglove.README
    http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/hardware/drivers/ linux-powerglove.tgz
    http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~cph/menelli.html

    These links are the README, driver files, and schematic for the Menelli box interface (Which looks a LOT like the one mentioned in your links) for the PowerGlove...

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  2. Touch me, feel me by outlier · · Score: 4
    This type of device, while pretty cool for input, would be much cooler if it incorporated force feedback technology.

    Until that's done, this doesn't seem much more impressive than Nintendo's Powerglove (which was cool, but didn't really do wonders for the game playing experience IMHO).

    For more on various glove interfaces, see this page

  3. Thank GOD!!! by srvivn21 · · Score: 5

    Finally a 3-D glove! I've had such a tough time fitting my hands into the 2-D variety...