VR Gloves : Latest Thrill For Tech Enthusiasts

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VR Gloves Latest Thrill For Tech Enthusiasts

• While we consumers are still getting used to the
  virtual reality tech and trying to decide whether
  or not to jump on board yet, Mark Zuckerberg is
  keeping a close eye on what is going on at the
  research end of Oculus. And going by the latest
  updates, we can surely say something interesting
  is cooking up for the latest RD project being
  virtual reality gloves.
• For now, we already have the Oculus Rift headset
  and Oculus Touch controllers. Together, these
  allow six degrees of motion tracking for our
  hands. With the constant scope of improvement and
  development, the Oculus Research lab in
  Washington is working on a pair of gloves that
  bring the full movement range of our hands and
  fingers into a virtual world. According to the
  updates, after wearing them we will be able to
  type on a virtual keyboard and draw with a high
  degree of accuracy.

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• Going by the image shared by Mark Zuckerberg,
  wearing these gloves, you can draw, type on a
  virtual keyboard, and even shoot webs like Spider
  Man. These prototype gloves arent hooked up to
  the Oculus tracking system yet. Instead, they
  rely on an array of trackers focused on a
  specific area in this case, where Zuckerberg is
  moving his glove-covered hands. A noticeable fact
  is that these VR gloves are probably not a brand
  new tech, developed internally by Oculus. The
  company lately acquired Pebbles Interfaces, which
  apparently had a virtual reality hand tracking
  system already in development. High chances are
  there of it being an extension of that technology
  only.

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• Previously also a lot of companies have worked on
  such haptic gloves and trackable ones. Dexter
  robotics gloves look like the mechanical
  exoskeletons which fit in your hands. Manus has
  been busy creating a much sleeker biker like
  gloves, while Neurodigitals Gloveone and
  Noitoms Hi5 are the two other variants which are
  still in development. But the news of a new set
  of gloves coming into the market from Oculus will
  spread like wildfire. On the positive side, it
  will also help other companies know how to
  develop VR software which takes advantage of
  unencumbered hands. It can eradicate the gaming
  limits and increase the business aspect.

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• Another update from the Oculus research lab is
  that they are also working on reducing the size
  of the headsets to glasses which can be carried
  anywhere. Zuckerberg also mentioned, advanced
  optics, eye tracking, mixed reality and new ways
  to map the human body in his Facebook post about
  the lab visit. But our personal piece of advice
  would be, dont hold your breath in wait for this
  new Oculus-branded technology. The gloves will
  surely be perfected and offered to the public,
  but we dont think that the company will have the
  technology and sources ready for quite a while.
  Also, it would be interesting to see if the
  competitor Sony comes up with any new peripherals
  for PlayStation VR.