{"id":772,"date":"2009-10-05T16:31:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T15:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2009-10-05T16:31:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T15:31:38","slug":"ghostglove-haptic-glove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/ghostglove-haptic-glove\/","title":{"rendered":"GhostGlove – Haptic glove"},"content":{"rendered":"

(found through ImmersiveTechBlog<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Building upon the concept of the Gravity Grabber<\/a>, the Tachi Lab<\/a> has created the Ghost Glove<\/a> :<\/p>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2QhWkYqT82s[\/youtube]\n

Here’s the video explaining the Gravity Grabber [article in pdf<\/a>], which I have tested and works quite well !<\/p>\n

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From this article at BBC News :<\/p>\n

This system makes use of the discovery that squashing and rolling the sensitive pads on the ends of a person’s index finger and thumb can give a realistic impression of weight. <\/span><\/p>\n

Post-graduate student Kouta Minamizawa and colleagues, from the Information Physics and Computing department at the University of Tokyo, aimed to exploit this using a lightweight, wearable ring fitted with tiny motors that pull on a narrow band of cloth. <\/span><\/p>\n

Those using this system slip these rings onto their index finger and thumb with the band stretched across the tip of the digit. They get a sense of the weight of virtual objects when the tiny motors pull the band tight around the pad of the finger or slip the band from side-to-side. <\/span><\/p>\n

The system can be used to represent single bulky objects like bottles when they are empty or have a liquid sloshing around inside them. It can even give the impression of several separate objects rattling round inside virtual containers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Minamizawa said it could be used in games to give players a more realistic sense of what their character was holding or doing. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This is a really interesting solution, especially if you can hold a physical object that has the same shape as the virtual object (passive haptics) to feel the forces applied to this object.<\/p>\n

The limitation is that if you don’t hold any real object, there won’t be anything to prevent your fingers or hand from penetrating the virtual object. Only the Immersion CyberGrasp<\/a> can do this completely for the moment.<\/p>\n


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(found through ImmersiveTechBlog) Building upon the concept of the Gravity Grabber, the Tachi Lab has created the Ghost Glove : [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2QhWkYqT82s[\/youtube] Here’s the video explaining the Gravity Grabber [article in pdf], which I have tested and works quite… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[33,421,422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}