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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Data Glove?
Message-ID: <5771@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 27 Oct 88 19:32:03 GMT
References: <3393@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <3393@pt.cs.cmu.edu> mkb@rover.ri.cmu.edu (Mike Blackwell) writes:
>Contrary to a previous reply, the Data Glove does not need a supercomputer
>interface, and indeed works just fine with a Macintosh.

If you'll recall, I said the combination of Dataglove and heads-up display
with a 3-D artificial reality required a supercomputer, not the glove by
itself.  And I speculated that it probably wasn't very useful without a
heads-up display et al.

>It has a simple
>serial line interface, and comes with a Mac application called Gesture
>Editor which lets you record and define various hand positions and gestures
>to control tasks.

So it doesn't image the glove on the screen?  Or does it?  Does it also
substitute for a mouse?  The way you describe it, it sounds more like Mac
mudra than the device described in Scientific American last fall.

>We have one (serial number 2, I believe) - it runs through
>a Mac-Plus with a Radius accelerator. Works great, and is lots of fun to
>play with, but the number of distinguishable and repeatable gestures is
>limited.

Company?  Price?  Is it really useful or just a toy?

>Now all we need is a head-up display...

Just put your head REALLY REALLY close to the screen....
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
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