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The Nintendo Power glove is an excellent device to use for low-end virtual reality system. It is a down version of the VPL Dataglove. The glove uses resistive ink bend sensors to relay to the computer the position of your fingers. It then uses ultrasonic tracking to give the x, y, and z coordinates.
The Power Glove must first be modified for your PC applications. Then freeware programs are used to access and poll the glove for your virtual reality programs. These programs use the Nintendo power glove as an input device. Some of these are
Rend386, Vr-386, Avril, and 2morrow builder.There are also a couple of games put out by PCVR, an old VR magazine, which use the glove. They are called Jet and Racquetball. The glove is also
well documented by several people so that your own drivers can be written.I also have an electronic version of the Power Glove Manual.
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The Modified Power Glove |
The Virtual Hand controlled by the Power Glove Interface |
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My first Virtual World |
The Ships are animated and a comet flys through the area |
