Glove-faq

Topics covered in this FAQ:

• VR Glove Sources
• Glove citations
• What about the PowerGlove?
• Glove Patents
• Credits

Subject: -1- VR Glove Sources:
Date: September 1, 1995

CyberGlove (tm)
Cost: approx. $10,000.00
Contact:
Virtual Technologies
2175 Park Blvd.
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Tel: 415-321-4900/Fax: 415-321-4912

Dextrous HandMaster (DHM)
Cost: approx. $15,000
Contact:
EXOS Inc.
2A Gill ST.
Woburn, MA 01801
Tel: 617-933-0022/Fax: 617-933-0303


PC Powerglove
Cost approx. $120.00
Contact
Abrahms Gentile Entertainment
Email pcpglove@ageinc.com

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.

Pinch (TM) Hand Gesture Interface System
Fakespace, Inc.
Telephone: 415-691-1488
Fax: 415-960-0541.
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 accommo date Polhemus or other sensors.

Pricing for a single complete system is $2,000, with additional individual gloves priced at $100 each.

The "5th Glove":
Retail pricing:

• US$495 for the basic 5th Glove kit [right-hand]
• US$595 for the basic 5th Glove kit [left-hand]
• US$415 for additional right-hand gloves
• US$445 for additional left-hand gloves

  Contact:
  For more information please contact Paul Olckers or Ben de Waal
  Tel: +27 12 349 1400/Fax: +27 12 349 1404
  Internet: 5DT@lia.infolink.co.za
  Compuserve: 100076.404@compuserve.com
  

  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
  Telephone: 408-289-8340/Fax:408-289-8258
  GRCsales@aol.com
  

  Cyberception
  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 by:

  Cyberception Inc.
  14 Carmichael Ave.
  Toronto, Ontario
  M5M 2W6
  Canada
  

  Phone 416-486-8047/Fax 416-638-0007
  Email (Can be reached through myself) at mres24@medcor.mcgill.ca

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  Subject: 2- Glove citations
  Date: September 1, 1995
  

  Bolas, M. (1995, forthcoming). Alternative Display and Interaction Devices. SPIE Conference. Bellingham, WA: SPIE

  Bolas, M. (1995, July). Applications drive VR Interface Selection. Computer, p. 72.

  Bordegoni, M. (1994). Parallel Use of Hand Gestures and Force-Input Device for Interacting with 3D and Virtual Reality Environments. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 6(4), pp. 391-413.

  Jacob, R. J. K., Leggett, J. J., Myers, B. A. and Pausch, R. (1993). Interaction Styles And Input/Output Devices. Behaviour and Information Technology. 12(2), pp. 69-79.

  Marcus, B. A. and Sturman, D. J. (1991). Exotic Input Devices. In Proceedings of National Computer Graphics Association, NCGA '91. (pp. 293-299). Fairfax, VA: NCGA.

  Marcus, B. A., An, B. and Eberman, B. (1991). EXOS Research on Master Controllers for Robotic Devices. In Proceedings of 1991 SOARP Conference.

  Marcus, B. A., An, B. and Eberman, B. (1991). Making VR Feel Real. In Proceedings of SRI International Virtual Worlds Conference.

  Marcus, B. A., Lucas, W. and Churchill, P. J. (1989). Human Hand Sensing for Robotics and Teleoperations.Sensors, 6(11), p. 26, 28-31.

  Sturman, D. J. (1992). Whole Hand Input. PH. D. Thesis. [Available via anonymous ftp at media-lab.mit.edu, ./pub/sturman/WholeHandInput]. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  Sturman, D. J. and Zeltzer, D. (1994, January). A Survey of Glove-Based Input. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 14 (1), 30-39.

  Sturman, D. J., Zeltzer, D. and Pieper, S. (1989). Hands-On Interaction with Virtual Environments. In UIST. Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. (pp. 19-24). New York, NY: ACM.

  Sturman, D.J. and Zeltzer, D. (1993). Utility of Whole-Hand Input. In Proceedings of Telemanipulator Technology and Space Telerobotics, SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol.2057, (pp. 282-291).

  Sturman, D.J. and Zeltzer, D. (1993). A Design Method For "Whole-Hand" Human-Computer Interaction. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 11(3), pp. 219-38.

  Ware, C. and Balakrishnan, R. (1994). Target Acquisition In Fish Tank VR: The Effects Of Lag And Frame Rate. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface '94 (pp. 1-7. 18-20 ). Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Canadian Inf. Process. Society.

  Subject: -3- What about the PowerGlove?
  Date: September 1, 1995
  

  3.1 Groups to contact:

  Power Glove Interfaces and Software
  Virtual Reality Alliance of Students & Professionals
  PO Box 4139
  Hightland Park, NY 08904-4139
  Email: 70233.1552@comopuserve.com
  WWW: http://www.vrasp.org/vrasp/

  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
  WWW: ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu in /ACM/PGSI 3.2 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/faq/other/FAQ_glovelist 3.3 FTP sites: Below is and 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." Gloves for VR by Graeme J Sweeney http://hcslx1.essex.ac.uk/~irnbru/vr/gloves.html 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:80/~cph/pg.html Articles: Gardner, Dana L. "The Power Glove", Design News. 4-Dec-89 pp63-68 Pausch, R. "Virtual Reality on Five Dollars a Day". Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Human Factors in Computer Systems Conference, New Orleans April 1991. ftp://ftp.hitl.washington.edu/pub /papers Subject: -4- Patents: Date: September 1, 1995 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. ------------------------------ Subject: -5- Credits Date: 13 Jul 95 00:00:01 PST Comments about, suggestions about or corrections to this posting are welcomed. If you would like to ask me to change this posting in someway, the method I appreciate most is for you to email me the proposed change. Make sure to indicate the section; preferably attaching the original "text" that you propose to change as well. 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, .