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- From: dsawdai@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Donald J Sawdai)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: TECH: Flaky Power Glove
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:59:49 GMT
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- I have recently connected the Power Glove to my PC compatible by
- the parallel port as per the illustrious Byte article (powered from
- 5V off of a spare drive connector). When I run REND386 (i.e. DEMO4,
- RB, etc.), the glove has a tendency to jump around quite a bit. I
- am wondering whether this is a defective glove or most PGs are this
- flaky.
- "Jumping around" means that the virtual hand tends to jump all around
- and occassionally off of the screen. The user has marginally control
- over the location of the hand (the statistical mean of the hand
- location seems to be the actual location). It has a lot of trouble
- recongnizing the rotation of the wrist. The fingers, however,
- regisiter the 2 bits of bending quite well, so the glove is
- communicating with my computer. By rearranging the 3 sensors, I have
- been able to reducing the jumping slightly, but not to any great
- extent.
-
- Also, the periodic flickering of the light array on the PG sensor
- unit is occasionally interrupted while all lights remain on for
- a fraction of a second. Is this normal? What causes it?
-
- Also, is it possible to resize the glove to the user's hand (as per
- the manual, "make a fist several times") once in hires mode? Do
- the PROG or any other key (except CENTER) on the wrist keypad have
- any effect in hires mode? What is the recommended method of resizing
- the glove to the user hand size on the PC?
-
- Thanks for any insights,
-
- Don Sawdai
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