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Re: Glove Interface

From: Kevin Wang <>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:12:20 -0700

 From Florian Echtler
> > > (at least, mine has), so if you attached IR emitters to
> > > each finger tip which send 5 easily distinguishable signals,
> > > you could track the fingers without much problems.. what
> > > do you think?
> > Did anything came out if that thought up to now?
> 
> Well.. yes and no. As I said, the idea about the glove was
> private just-for-fun hacking and I put it on hold due to lack
> of time. However, the IR concept made it into our wearable
> project at TU Munich, where we'll possibly be using those IR
> emitters as wall-mounted markers for position tracking.

If you folks want to do position sensing, you should also see this 
ultrasound based position tracker:

http://www.uk.research.att.com/spirit/

However, this may be inverted from what you want; its a transmitter on
the person, with sensors in the room.

   - Kevin

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