Wired gloves for every one

  • Authors:
  • Hernando Ortega-Carrillo;Erika Martínez-Mirón

  • Affiliations:
  • IIMAS, UNAM, México;CCADET, UNAM, México

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Wired gloves are one of the most useful tools in the field of Virtual Reality. By using them, the users can interact more realistically with Virtual Environments than when using a joystick, mouse, trackball or so. Despite some attempts to develop low-budget wired gloves have been made, these useful devices remain as very expensive tools for the common user. Motivated by this situation, we propose the design and implementation of wired gloves based on a low budget novel technology. This technology uses indirect video-analysis to detect joint movements, which are transferred via a set of wires attached to the joints. As a result, these gloves can be acquired at a very low price or even enthusiast people could try to reproduce them.