Talk:Wired glove

this article is completely bogus advertising material

The data glove was invented by Bill English in 1964. A member of Doug Englebart's team —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.144.208.148 (talk) 02:37, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

didn't there used to be some more info about the P5?

I have the faint memory of checking the article about the P5 a while ago and it had more info than what is present now (I can't remember what exactly it was), am I remembering it wrong? btw, if there is really not gonna be an article specificly for the P5, the link in the beginning of this article should be removed, isn't there some rule about recursive article links or somthing? --TiagoTiago (talk) 12:13, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

what "other issues" the P5 got?

"While it received some positive reviews from gadget and gaming magazines, its lack of compatible software and other issues caused it to remain a novelty. It has since been discontinued."

the article doesn't mention anywhere what those "other issues" were...--TiagoTiago (talk) 12:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Strictly OR here, but to answer your question, the "other issues" would probably include "it sucks". The particular mechanism it uses to detect finger motions is near-impossible to calibrate accurately, inconsistent in its sensitivity, and not helped by the fact that the fingers aren't really adjustable so unless your hand is exactly the right size, they slip to one side and give dodgy results. The sort of things you might expect of a low-cost device according to the principle of get-what-you-pay-for. Despite theoretically being very sensitive anything less than sweeping motions tend to come out incorrectly which makes it useless for precision work. I also wouldn't be surprised if a lot of users and reviewers found that holding your arm out to one side stops being fun and starts getting tiring and painful after even a short gaming session.... God forbid trying to use it for anything productive or anything at all involving typing. I have one and hate it. Chances are you aren't going to find any acceptable sources that spell all this out though. Leushenko (talk) 19:43, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

The worst issue with the P5 it that it's almost non-functional, but completely mandatory, optical tracking. I'd be happy to disable the optical tracking and use only the glove, however, the hardware only reports data when both optical and mechanical tracking is functioning perfectly. When the cameras inevitably lose sight of the optical markers, the glove stops transmitting any data at all. I've heard of people simply removing the optical markers, gluing them to a wall, and then pointing the camera at the wall, that way they could use the glove in peace. APL (talk) 18:01, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

"The CyberGlove remains the most sophisticated data glove in the marketplace. "???

I would like to see some proof of this as i believe it is no longer true. Please provide reference or i'll be removing this statement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dieselbub (talk • contribs) 13:07, 2 March 2009 (UTC)