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From: jorice@maths.tcd.ie (Jonathan Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Power Glove
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.100632.20207@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 21 Sep 90 10:06:32 GMT
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Can someone tell me if this rumoured computer-compatible version of the
PowerGlove is functionally the same as the current Nintendo version? I mean,
are they essentially the same glove, or are they going to jazz it up a bit
(higher data rate, increased finger flexion/hand position/hand orientation
precision)? You see, I've got a friend on holiday in the U.S. who is going to
try to get me a PowerGlove. Now if this new glove isn't really going to give
me any functional improvement over the old one I don't mind trying to hack
together an interface to my Sun, based on the info in Byte (providing it's
possible :-), but if the new one is going to be a much better product, then
I'll phone my friend right now to cancel the order. By the way, just to ease
my mind, has anyone out there hooked a PowerGlove up to a Sun Sparcstation?

-- Jonathan

Jonathan Rice, jorice@cs.tcd.ie