Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!jmunkki@hila.hut.fi From: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: Re: Mattel Power Glove Specifications Message-ID: <9008111818.AA01693@santra.hut.fi> Date: 11 Aug 90 18:18:17 GMT References: <5488@milton.u.washington.edu> <618@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM> Sender: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, FINLAND Lines: 40 Approved: hitl@hardy.u.washington.edu In <618@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM> jsurine@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM (James Surine): >Howard Eglowstein from Byte magazine who wrote the article reverse engineered >the power glove to get the information to write the article. He is going >to reverse engineer the "enhanced mode" when he gets a hold of that new game. >(That is if the article doesn't get canceled by the editor) If the article gets canceled, maybe we could get it published here. I'll have a PowerGlove to work with in a few weeks and it would be so much easier to use it, if I just had some kind of documentation. I wouldn't mind contributing a few $$ to someone for revealing this information, although I feel that it should have been freely available from the start. Someone wrote that the increased resolution near the screen wouldn't be of any use because the user's hand would be too close to the screen. As far as I know this can be solved by placing the detector somewhere else than around the screen. Shouldn't be any harder than moving a mouse to a new place. The address and FAX number of the company that designed the PowerGlove was posted in comp.graphics and I've been thinking of sending them a FAX. Has anyone tried this? Here's the information, just in case someone wants to try to contact them and missed it in comp.graphics: Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, Inc. (AGE) 244 West 54th Street, 9th Floor New York, NY 10019 (212) 757-0700 (212) 765-1987 FAX Virtual reality will probably have its first real breakthrough in CAD applications. We should work on getting CAD companies to support low- cost 3D display and input technologies. An improved Power Glove with a set of LC-shutter stereo glasses and a good solid modeling program would be ideal. When I have the glove working, I can start working on the modeling software. ___________________________________________________________________________ / Juri Munkki / Helsinki University of Technology / Wind / HP S / / jmunkki@hut.fi / Computing Center Macintosh Support / Surf / 48 X / ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~