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From: brant@alberta.UUCP (Brant Coghlan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Glove / New Pointer Device ???
Keywords: pointer gloves
Message-ID: <2188@pembina.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 89 09:41:02 GMT
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Reply-To: brant@pembina.UUCP (Brant Coghlan)
Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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In article <1211@microsoft.UUCP> t-iaind@microsoft.UUCP (Iain Davidson) writes:
>
>  Has anybody else heard of this ???
>
>    A company (don't remember their name) is making a mouse replacement
>  "electronic glove" like pointing device.  Supposedly the story goes
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - a simplified data glove
>  it has 100 switches in it and plugs into a mouse port.  It is a infrared
>  device , measuring the distance between your hand and the screen. It even
>  can keep track of relative up/down left/right position of your hand. It
>  can detect literally _millions_ of positions of hand and fingers.
>
>  and get this...... price only $50.
>
>Just imagine the game potentials.... grabing a ball in mid-air, use a 3-d
> CAD package and move points by grabbing them.

I saw a demo of a Nintendo Game Glove today.  It was used in conjunction
with a boxing program (your punches are echoed by the character).
The glove plugs into the standard Nintendo joystick plug.  It is a simple
version of the NASA-Ames data glove.  The hand is tracked but the fingers
are not.  There are extra control buttons on the back of the glove for
added control.  This looks like a winner in game interface design and
would be useful for many general computer applications.
	Does anyone know how the Nintendo joystick port is setup?
I could really use a data glove on the amiga.
 
	Another game interface was also shown which did not require any
connection to the computer/video game.  It is a sensory pannel which
monitors motion in front of it.  It could be infrared but I got the
impression it was a sonic based motion detector.  It will retail for
about $80 Canadian this Christmas toy season.  I would not mind an amiga
interface to this unit either :-)
 
-Brant
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 Brant Coghlan	(career student)  (403) 487-3619     ...!alberta!brant
 Dept. of Comp. Science, 615 GSB, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada