It’s like the Power Glove, but for VR • TechCrunch

Nintendo’s Energy Glove was, to cite one of many 80s’ most interesting movies, “so unhealthy.” The NES peripheral transfixed a technology of children, solely to later understand that the “unhealthy” on this occasion ought to maybe have been taken a bit extra actually. Nintendo finally offered a million of the issues, however the expertise simply wasn’t there, and the dream controlling gameplay with a robo-glove appeared to have died together with it.

With the newfound (relative) prominence of digital actuality, maybe it’s time give the thought one other go. Definitely interacting on this manner make a heck of much more sense in VR than it does an 8-bit facet scroller. That is the promise behind ContactGlove, a brand new product from the Japanese agency, Diver-X, which debuted this week at CES.

Along with choosing up an Innovation Award on the present, ContactGlove can be the topic of an on-going Kickstarter marketing campaign, which has already handed its $200,000 objective, with 16 days left to go. The product combines hand monitoring with haptic suggestions to present the consumer a extra hands-on strategy to interacting with the digital atmosphere round them.

After calibrating the system, ContactGlove tracks finger actions for extra pure interplay, in addition to button/stick actions made with the hand for a extra conventional gaming expertise. Battery life is round two hours with haptics on and eight hours with it turned off. You can too sizzling swap the battery to stick with it and operating.

The product claims to be a less expensive/extra accessible strategy to VR gloves than what’s at present on the market. In fact, when coping with VR {hardware}, “cheaper” is actually relative. The agency places the ultimate retail value of the product at slightly below $500 for the pair.

It’s suitable with HTC Vive headsets, in addition to Steam VR {hardware}. The corporate can be making an SDK out there for Unity and UnrealEngine builders to make higher use of the system. Diver-X expects to begin delivery in July, at which level we’ll discover out which form of unhealthy ContactGlove actually is.