A wired glove is a glove-like input device for virtual reality environments. Various sensor technologies are used to capture physical data such as bending of fingers. Often a motion tracker, such as a magnetic tracking device or inertial tracking device, is attached to capture the global position / rotation data of the glove. These movements are then interpreted by the software that accompanies the glove, so any one movement can mean any number of things. Gestures can then be categorized into useful information, such as to recognize Sign Language or other symbolic functions. // Leather gloves A glove (Middle English from Old English glof) is a type of garment (and more specifically a fashion accessory) which covers the hand of a human. ... This article is about the simulation technology. ... Not to be confused with censure, censer, or censor. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In physics, magnetism is a phenomenon by which materials exert an attractive or repulsive force on other materials. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... An inertial tracking device uses the laws of inertia to track an object over very short distances. ... For gestures in computing, see mouse gesture. ... Two sign language Intepreters working as a team for a school. ...

Expensive high-end wired gloves can also provide haptic feedback, which is a simulation of the sense of touch. This allows a wired glove to also be used as an output device. This article is about haptic technology. ...

Traditionally, wired gloves have only been available at a huge cost, with the finger bend sensors and the tracking device having to be bought separately.

One of the first wired gloves available to home users was the Nintendo Power Glove. This was designed as a gaming glove for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It had a crude tracker and finger bend sensors, plus buttons on the back. In 2001, Essential Reality made a similar attempt at a cheap gaming glove, this time for the PC: the P5 Glove. However, this peripheral never really became popular among gamers. Ironically, even specialized stores are now selling the older and less performant Power Glove for a higher price than the more sophisticated P5 Glove. The Japanese Nintendo Power Glove, manufactured by PAX The Power Glove (1989) is a controller accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System designed by the team of Grant Goddard and Sam Davis for Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, made by Mattel in the United States and PAX in Japan. ... “NES” redirects here. ... The P5 Glove was a glove-like USB peripheral device, based upon proprietary bend sensor and Infrared remote tracking technologies, that provided users intuitive interaction with 3D and virtual environments, such as video games, websites and educational software. ... The Japanese Nintendo Power Glove, manufactured by PAX The Power Glove (1989) is a controller accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System designed by the team of Grant Goddard and Sam Davis for Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, made by Mattel in the United States and PAX in Japan. ... The P5 Glove was a glove-like USB peripheral device, based upon proprietary bend sensor and Infrared remote tracking technologies, that provided users intuitive interaction with 3D and virtual environments, such as video games, websites and educational software. ...

Wired gloves are often called "datagloves" or "cybergloves", but these two terms are trademarks, belonging to Sun Microsystems (which acquired the patent portfolio of VPL Research Inc. in February 1998) and Immersion Corporation (which acquired Virtual Technologies, Inc. and its patent portfolio in September 2000) respectively. Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... A patent portfolio is a collection of patents filed and owned by a single inventor or corporation that may be related or unrelated. ...

An alternative to wired gloves is to use a camera and computer vision to track the 3D pose and trajectory of the hand, at the cost of tactile feedback.[1] Computer vision is the science and technology of machines that see. ...

Popular culture

The film adaptation of Minority Report makes use of a wireless gloves to control futuristic computer-like peripherals. Minority Report is a 2002 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on the Philip K. Dick 1956 short story The Minority Report. It is set in the year 1895, when criminals are interviewed based on foreknowledge. ...

External links

• ShapeHand & ShapeHandPlus
• P5 Glove Wiki
• P5 Glove Community Yahoo! Group
• Project for a homemade wired glove
• I-CubeX TouchGlove