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From: dwillis@athena.mit.edu (Richard M Willis)
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Subject: Re: rambling on motion
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Date: 12 Nov 90 15:08:52 GMT
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There are several people working on using the PowerGlove for the Nintendo game s
ystem to detect position and rough orientation of the hand. A company, Tensor Pr
oducts, is also marketing this as an interface for the AMIGA computer. I do not 
know what resolution is possible, or how hard it would be to adapt the technolog
y (basically two ultrasonic transducers transmitting to a fixed array of receive
rs) to be head-mounted. I am working on a hand-based unit, for paraplegics, and 
might get so far as a head-moun
ted unit for quadraplegics as well.