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From: king@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Stephen King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Glove / New Pointer Device ???
Keywords: pointer gloves
Message-ID: <1633@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 7 Apr 89 12:13:17 GMT
References: <1211@microsoft.UUCP> <1143@internal.Apple.COM> <3713@amiga.UUCP> <11430@s.ms.uky.edu>
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In article <11430@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>Boy, that would make for one hell of a flight simulator. Have a field
>of view about as wide as peripheral vision, and change the picture if
>the user turns his head.

CAE Industries in Montreal have developed a helmet mounted display with
integral head tracker for this very purpose. It is, of course, very
expensive at this point in time (>$1M). There remains the problem of visual
lag, due to the processing delay of the head tracker and the scene
computer. This lag can cause severe motion sickness.

re: the glove. How about a glove that uses mercury strain gages? This is a
mature technology that does not require bulky switches and has a linear
output. The gages themselves are inexpensive, light and flexible. Has this
been tried?

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