5th GloveTM

  • Affordable quality
  • Extreme comfort"One size fits many"
  • Right & Left hand versions available
  • Bundled software
  • Mouse emulation mode
  • High update rate
  • Built-in pitch & roll sensor
  • 8-bit flexure resolution per finger
  • Platform independent - RS-232 interface


Specifications     Current Pricing     User's Manual


The new 5th Glove features advanced fiber-optic flex sensors to generate finger-bend data. Move easily through your virtual world by combining hand gestures with the pitch and roll of your hand. Breakthrough pricing, new features, open architecture and software support have made it the glove of choice.

The following software is bundled with the 5th Glove:

KineMusica
A body instrument package developed specifically for the 5th Glove. It converts finger flexure and hand orientation to music using MIDI commands, which can the be played out by any MIDI device e.g. a sound card. A virtual piano, horn, trumpet and drum set are already available as input controls which can be mapped to any MIDI instrument existing on either your MIDI compatible sound card or external synthesizer.

Mouse Emulation
A utility that emulates a standard Microsoft serial mouse on the hardware level. Default hand gestures have been defined to emulate left and right button clicks as well as double clicks. The glove will retain any user defined gestures and continue to operate as a mouse until the power is cycled.

Glove View
Demo program illustrating some of the applications of the 5th Glove. This program utilizes a 3-D manipulation scheme which enables a user to navigate a virtual world and to manipulate objects with gesture recognition.

Developer's Software
  • Windows (3.x, 95, NT) API Libraries and sample C/C++ code.
  • Drivers for existing VR programs
  • DOS drivers/sample programs - 16 and 32 bit.
  • Sample C/C++ code for generic driver development
  • Diagnostics utility that graphically displays raw flexure and pitch/roll information.



 

5TH GLOVE DG-2.1

 

Current Pricing


Input Controls


User's Manual

Bend Sensing Method Fully-Enclosed Fiber Optic Bend Sensors
Number of Sensors Five (one per finger)
Resolution 8-bits (256 positions/finger)
+/- 60° Pitch & Roll
Output Interface Serial Port, RS-232 (3-wire)
19.2 kbaud (full duplex)
Sampling Rate 200 hz per finger
Tracking Integrated Pitch & Roll Sensor
Glove Fitting Right & Left Hand versions; "One size fits many"
Calibration Routine Open & Close hand; each user
Software Bundled Windows 32 bit DLL w/installation routines, Mouse Emulation, Raw Data Viewer, polygonal graphics hand model with C++ source code, KineMusica MIDI output program.
Power Supply 9v DC Center Positive



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