The first programmable glove with gesture recognition

Gloves with sensors and gyroscopes can be an effective substitute for a mouse and joystick in a wide variety of virtual reality applications: games, entertainment, workouts, and tutorials. In late May, the American company AnthroTronix released the world's first glove, which comes bundled with open APIs, so that programmers can customize it in Java to work with any application. For AcceleGlove gloves, you can invent absolutely any gesture and assign an action for it in any program. In addition, this manipulator is cheaper than its competitors : it costs $ 500.

The photo shows all the programmable components of AcceleGlove: A - accelerometers on each finger; B - a microcircuit that receives a signal from accelerometers and communicates with a PC via USB (all “raw” data can be analyzed, for example, in Mathematica), from here the device receives power; C - the glove itself is made of breathable nylon, suitable for all hand sizes and allows you to write with a pen or type on the keyboard, even when the glove is worn; D - sensor for moving the arm in space, consists of two bracelets: under the elbow and on the biceps.


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The device can be viewed on the video .

via Technology Review