GLOVES

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Company

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#Sensors

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Cyberglove		 Virtual Technologies flexible sensors, resistive bend sensing
  • Sensor Linearity: 0.62% maximum nonlinearity over full range of hand motion
  • Sensor Resolution: 0.5°
  • Repeatability Between Glove Uses: Standard deviation of typically 1°
  • Update Rate: Up to 112 records/sec when filtered (18 sensor records). Up to 149 records/sec when unfiltered. Preset sample period or polled I/O.
 18 or 22
  • Comfortable
  • comes with an executable version of VirtualHand graphic hand model display and calibration software
  • Polhemus and Ascension 6 DOF tracking sensors are available for the glove wristband. Tracking sensors are not included in the basic CyberGlove system, but are available as an option from Virtual Technologies and are supported in the VirtualHandŽ software.
 $9,800 (18 sensors)
$14,500 (22 sensors)

Data Glove 5		 Fifth Dimension Technologies fiber optic based flexor technology 5
  • measures finger flexure (1 sensor per finger) and the orientation (pitch and roll) of the user's hand
  • optional wireless system via a radio link (up to 20m distance)
  • 8-bit flexure resolution
 $495

Data Glove 16		 Fifth Dimension Technologies fiber optic based flexor technology 16
  • measures finger flexure (2 sensors per finger) as well as the abduction between fingers
  • Automatic calibration
  • minimum 8-bit flexure resolution
  • Bundled software
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Data Glove MRI		 Fifth Dimension Technologies fiber optic based flexor technology 5 Data Glove 5 optimized for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging [MRI] environments ???

PINCH Gloves		 FakeSpace electrical sensors in each fingertip to pinch and 'grab' virtual objects 10
  • Contact between any two or more digits completes a conductive path
  • no calibration
  • A mount compatible with both the Ascension and Polhemus electromagnetic trackers is provided
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SUPERGLOVE		 Nissho Electronic Corp. bend sensor 10
  • reads pressure generated by bending finger as slight electric-power
  • Sampling rate : 200 microsecond / sensor
  • accuracy : 0.3 degree
 480000 Yens

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