Abrahms Gentile Entertainment
Email: info@ageinc.com
Web:
http://www.usa.net/age/
Product: PC Powerglove
Cost approx. $120.00
The PC PowerGlove will take all the advantage of the original Power Glove, ...but increase its resolution and features, reducing its weight and maintaining a low retail cost ($120.00). The PC PowerGlove is scheduled to be released 1st Quarter 1996, with Developer Kits available 4th Quarter 1995.
Cyberception Inc.
14 Carmichael Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
M5M 2W6
Canada
Tel: 416-486-8047
Fax: 416-638-0007
Email:
mres24@medcor.mcgill.ca
Unused Mattel/Nintendo powergloves modified for the PC parallel port $55.00 US, unmodified $35.00 US available in quantities, with full warranty and support.
Fifth Dimention Technologies (5DT)
Pretoria, South Africa
Tel: +27 12 349 1400/Fax: +27 12 349 1404
e-mail: 5DT@pixie.co.za
Web:
http://www.5dt.com/
Products: 5DT Data Glove
The 5DT Data Glove measures finger flexure and the orientation (roll and pitch) of a user's hand. It can emulate a mouse as well as a baseless joystick and the user can also type while wearing the glove. These facts make it the ideal single input device for virtual reality applications. Breakthrough pricing, new features, an open architecture and software support have made it the glove of choice.
Contact:
Paul Olckers:
Tel: +27 12 349 1400 Fax: +27 12 349 1404
Internet: 5DT@lia.infolink.co.za
Compuserve: 100076.404@compuserve.com
Fakespace, Inc.
Tel: 415-691-1488
Fax: 415-960-0541
Product: Pinch (TM) Hand Gesture Interface System
Pinch gloves make it possible to use a representation of hand interaction to productively work within a three-dimensional (3D) computer simulation. Each glove contains five sensors (one in each fingertip). Contact between any two or more digits completes a conductive path, and a complex variety of actions based on these simple "pinch" gestures can be defined by the application developer. To track the motion of each "virtual" hand within an application, each glove also has a back-of-hand mount to accommodate Polhemus or other sensors.
Pricing for a single complete system is $2,000, with additional individual gloves priced at $100 each.
In the US, General Reality Company is the master distributor of the glove in the U.S., contact:
Denny Reinert
General Reality Company
124 Race St.
San Jose, CA 95126
Tel: 408-289-8340, Fax: 408-289-8258
e-mail: sales@genreality.com
web: http://www.genreality.com
Product: The "5th Glove":
Cost:
The new 5th Glove features breakthrough pricing and performance. Advanced fiber optic sensors in each finger sample 256 positions per finger at a 200 hz sample rate. Built-in 2DOF pitch and roll tracking combined with gesture recognition allows movement a long the x,y,z axis. A standard serial (RS-232) interface connects to PC's and workstations. A 6DOF tracker can be added for more advanced applications.
Virtual Technologies
2175 Park Blvd.
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Tel: 415-321-4900/Fax: 415-321-4912
Web:
http://www.virtex.com/
Products:
CyberGlove (tm)
Cost: $9800
CyberTouch(TM) glove which consists of the CyberGlove with a tactile
feedback option for all five fingers and the palm
Price: $14800
GesturePlus(TM), a trainable gesture recognition system that can be
used in conjunction with glove products.
Price: $3500.
(Virtual Technologies, Inc., now has a company-sponsored on-line users group. This users group is intended to enhance communication and broaden the support options for users of Virtual Technologies' products, including the CyberGlove(TM) instrumented glove, GesturePlus(TM) gesture recognition system and Virtual Hand(R) hand-interaction software library. To enroll in the users group, please send email to vtug@virtex.com withthe phrase "subscribe vtug" in the subject line.)
1.2 Finger-Based:
SensAble Tchnologies
University Park at MIT
26 Lansdowne St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617-621-0150
Web:
http://www.sensable.com/
product: PHANToM
cost: $19,000
The PHANToM is unique in that it offers realistic 3-D Touch, the ability to feel the physical properties of virtual 3-D objects, with much higher fidelity and much lower cost than previous force feedback devices.
CM Research
2437 Bay Areas Blvd. No. 234
Houston, TX 77058
Tel: 1-800-262-1267/Fax: 1-281-326-3602
e-mail: mzerkus@cmresearch.com
Web:
http://www.cmresearch.com/vr.html
Products: Displaced Temperature Sensing System (DTSS)
With the DTSS one can feel the temperature of a remote location (Real or Unreal) as if you were there.
1.3 Joysticks:
Immersion Corporation
2158 Paragon Drive
San Jose, CA 95131
Tel: 408-467-1900/Fax: 408-467-1901
Web:
http://www.immerse.com/
Product: I-Force Joystick
I-FORCE is the force feedback hardware standard and processing core that is incorporated within joysticks, steering wheels, flight yokes, and other consumer gaming peripherals.
1.4 Other Sources:
Cybernet
727 Airport Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Tel: 313-668-2567/Fax: 313-668-8780
Web:
http://www.cybernet.com/
Product: CyberImpact Flight Yoke/Racing Wheel
CyberImpact Force Feedback devices. Cybernet provides a complete Windows 95, NT, MS-DOS CyberImpact software development kit (SDK) using Cybernet's patented application programmer interface (API) and DirectInput Support. Completely programmable sense of touch for entertainment applications in a compact package.
Haptic Technologies Inc.
3575 Boul. St. Laurent, suite 422
Quebec Canada, H2X 2T7
Tel: (Canada) (514) 987-9800 x110/FaxD: (Canada) 514-463-0120
Web:
http://www.haptech.com/
Products:
TouchKit(tm) is a full featured set of tools designed to enable programmers to easily integrate haptic (force and tactile feedback) capability to their applications.
MouseCAT(tm) connects to the host computer through a standard serial connection, and after installing the drivers, will act as a standard mouse enhanced with force feedback for applications supporting the feature.
Images Company
39 Seneca Loop
Staten Island NY 10314
Tel: (718) 698-8305 /Fax: (718) 982-6145
Web:
http://www.imagesco.com/
Product: Flex Sensor
Price: $5.50
The Flex Sensor is a unique component that changes resistence when bent. An unflexed sensor has a nominal resistance of 10,000 ohms (10 K). As the flex sensor is bent the resistance gradually increases. When the sensor is bent at 90 degress its resistance will range between 30-40 K ohms.
Triptych Designs
One Kendall Square
Suite 2200
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617-621-7031/Fax: 617-577-1209
Web:
http://www.triptych-designs.com/
Triptych Designs, Inc. is a consulting and software development firm specializing in project that incorporate Force Feedback (haptics), the sense of touch, into virtual environments and 3D applicaitons.
Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories: Haptic Interfaces
Armstrong Laboratory: Human Sensory Feedback (HSF) for Telepresence Project
Carnegie Mellon Univ.'s Microdynamic Systems Laboratory: Magnetic Levitation Haptic Interfaces
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Department Visualization and Virtual Reality: Motion-Rendering in VR
Interactive Media Center: Haptics Lens Project
Institute of Robotics and System Dynamics, Robotic Systems: Man Machine Interfaces
Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology: Robotic and Magnetic Interface for Virtual Reality Force Interactions Project
McGill University's High Performance Robotics Lab
Northwestern University's Laboratory for Intelligent Mechanical Systems: Haptic Display
Ohio Supercomputing Center: Haptic Interface for Virtual Exploration of Computational Data
Queen's University's The Touch Laboratory
Rutgers VR Lab:
Stanford University's Dextrous Manipulation Laboratory
Stanford University: Haptic User Interfaces for the Blind
The Touch Lab
Univ. North Carolina: Force Feedback Research
Univ. of Tsukuba's IWATA Lab
Univ. Utah Biorobotics Laboratory:
Univ. Washington's BioRobotics Laboratory: Haptics Research
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Morgenbesser, H. B., & Srinivasan, M. A. (1996). Force Shading for Haptic Shape Perception. In Proceedings of the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, New York: American Society for Mechanical Engineers
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The Air Force Institute of Technology's Robotics and Automation Applications Group: http://www.afit.af.mil/Schools/EN/ENG/LABS/ROBOTICS/
Annual Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments & Teleloperator Systems: http://hrl.harvard.edu:80/events/haptics-symposium/
Cagatay Basdogan, Ph.D.'s research page http://touchlab.mit.edu/people/cagatay/research.html
CHI'95 - Gesture at the User Interace Workshop: http://wex.www.media.mit.edu/people/wex/CHI95-workshop-writeup.html
DataGlove Research by Heloise Hse: http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hwawen/research/
Marc Ernst's Vision and Haptics Page: http://www.mpik-tueb.mpg.de/people/personal/marc/home.htm
Dr. Harald Fischer's Applications for Tactile Feedback in Minimal Invasive Surgery: http://hbksun17.fzk.de:8080/hitwww/mitarb/hafi.html
Gesture Archive by Graeme J Sweeney: http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/gesture/
Gesture Bibliography by Alan Wexelblat: http://wex.www.media.mit.edu/people/wex/gest-bib.html
Gesture Workshop '96: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/gw96/
Gesture Mailing List :The GESTURE-L Forum covers study of gestures, gesture systems, and alternate sign languages. Send a "subscribe gesture-l " message to majordomo@coombs.anu.edu.au.
GRASP - Recognising Auslan signs using Instrumented Gloves http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~waleed/thesis.html
Haptics Community Web Page: http://haptic.mech.nwu.edu/
Haptic (Sensory/Touch) Interfaces: http://www.sc.ist.ucf.edu/~OTT/1_3/1_3_5/index.htm
Haptics Bibliography by Margaret Minsky: http://marg.www.media.mit.edu/people/marg/haptics-bibliography.html
Machine Gesture and Sign Language Recognition: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~waleed/gsl-rec/
Mike's Homebrew VR Lab: http://www.eecs.uic.edu/~mbogucki/vr.html
McGill Univ.'s Centre for Intelligent Machine: Telerobotics: http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/CimInfo/94-95AnnualReport/node154.html
Dinesh K. Pai's Simulation of Physical Systems in Virtual Environments: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/pai/
Dianne Pawluk's human touch research: http://www.hrl.harvard.edu/people/students/dianne/dianne.html
Hong Z. Tan, Ph.D. at MIT: http://hongtan.www.media.mit.edu/people/hongtan/
Chris vanBuskirk's 400-Pin Tactile Array Stimulator: http://www-fbsc.ncifcrf.gov/~vbuskirk/lab/400pin/
5.1 Groups to contact:
Power Glove Serial Interface
UIUC Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery
1304 West Springfield, Room 1225
Urbana, IL 61801
Email: pgsi@uiuc.edu
5.2 FAQs:
PGSI FAQ
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigarch/pgsi/pgsifaq.html
Power Glove FAQ
Is available as an HTML document, By J. Eric Townsend:
http://www.spies.com/jet/VR/faq-0.3.html
The older FAQ is at:
ftp://ftp.hitl.washington.edu/pub/scivw/glove-faq
5.3 FTP sites:
Below is an excerpt from the old Glove-List FAQ:
"1.3 ftp sites schmidt@cogsci.uwo.ca has offered the use of cogsci.uwo.ca as a powerglove related ftp site. Check: /pub/vr for a variety of glove-list relted stuff. karazm.math.uh.edu is no longer the powerglove ftp site."
Chris Hand has done a couple good WWW pages on the PowerGlove:
PowerGlove Sources by Chris Hand
http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk:80/~cph/glove-src.html
PowerGlove by Chris Hand
http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/People/cph/pg.html
http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/People/cph/pg2.html
5.4 Articles & Info:
Gardner, Dana L. "The Power Glove", Design News. 4-Dec-89 pp63-68
Karlo Takki's PowerGlove Information Page http://www.badanimals.com/users/ktakki/glove/index.html
US Patent 3,022,878 'Communication device' Patented Feb. 27, 1962 Robert Seibel, Putnam Valley, Nathaniel Rochester IBM A further object of this invention is to provide a keyboard into which the hand is inserted, much as the hand is inserted into a glove. Such a keyboard is adaptable to being fitted into a glove.
US Patent 4,414,537 'Digital data entry glove interface device' Patented Nov. 8, 1983 Gary J.Grimes, Bell Telephone Lab. Inc A man-machine interface is disclosed for translating discrete hand positions into electrical signals representing alpha-numeric characters.
US Patent 4,542,291 'Optical flex sensor' Patented Sep. 17, 1985 Thomas G. Zimmerman. VPL Research Inc. The instant invention relate generally to position detectors and more specifically it relates to anoptical flex sensor that produces an output signal in response to bending A further object is to provide an optical flex sensor that uses inexpensive common materials and is assembled either by hand or with simple tools.
US Patent 4,988,981 'Computer data entry and manipulation apparatus and methods' Patented Jan. 29, 1991 Thomas G.Zimmerman, Jaron Z.Lanier VPL Research Inc. Apparatus is disclosed for generating control signals for the manipulation of virtual objects in a computer system according to the gesture and position of an operator's hand or other body part. The apparatus includes a glove worn on the hand which includes sensors for detecting the gestures of the hand, as well as hand position sensing means coupled to the glove and to the computer system for detecting the position of the hand with respect to the system.
U .S. Patent : 5,047,952, Jim Kramer. Communication system for deaf, deaf-blind an non-vocal individuals using instrumented glovesVirtual Technologies, 1991.
The following people assisted in the creation of this article:
There are a number of people who's information on the WWW provided information for this FAQ: Chris Hand, J. Eric Townshend and of course, the UIUC Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery
This article was originally written by:
Toni Emerson,
temerson@hitl.washington.edu.
Aaron Jones, ajones@hitl.washington.edu