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From: hlab@milton.acs.washington.edu (Human Int. Technology Lab)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: data glove touch sensors
Message-ID: <2833@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 90 20:07:11 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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In article <8131@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> Gabrial X writes:
>Are there more than one version of the data glove, or is it just that the
>tactile feedback provided is not good enough to simulate textures, or was the
>article that I read wrong?

It used to be that the DataGlove had touch sources on its fingertips, but
no longer. Apparently they didn't work too well. Everything felt like sandpaper
or something. The DataGlove command set still pretends to support this
feature, but sending the command is a no-op.

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