P5+Glove

=**P5 Glove**=

We recently purchased a data glove (wired glove) named "P5 Glove" developed by Essential Reality. P5 glove is a very cheap data glove that has five analog bend sensors and eight IR sources on it. It comes with a tower-shaped receptor that detects its position in 3D space. The glove is suppose to capture x, y and z movements in 3D space as well as yaw, pitch and roll movements of the hand in addition to capturing the finger gestures (using the bend sensors).



Inside the receptor tower there are a pair of position detectors (Not cmos cameras!!) that receive and process the IR signals emitted from the glove:



We tested our P5 glove using the Sandbox application, a promotional mini application by Virtual Reality Models company that is meant to prompt their software development kit for virtual reality and real-time rendering. It was observed that P5 glove accurately captured 5 finger gestures using the bend sensors as well the roll move, however its IR tracking of the hand in 3D space and detection of yaw/pitch movements were inaccurate and jittery. Here is a video of the sandbox application:

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We are currently researching the possibilities of enhancing/modifying the P5 glove. might be able to modify and enhance the P5 glove to make it more accurate.