Subject: Re: Hand

From: Dave Stampe-Psy+Eng <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 15:23:11 -0500

> From [email-masked] Wed Feb  5 14:52:47 1992
> From: [email-masked] (Joseph D. Gradecki)
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Hand
> 
> Question:  Has anyone written a simple hand gesture simulation for the
> glove?  It would seem that the simpliest way to get people's interest
> in VR is to give the ability to see a 3D hand on the screen which 
> could reach for a ball or other structure.  I am currently working
> on a wire-frame hand using some very slow ( poly3d ) code which does
> a very good job of translations, scaling, etc.  Would be interested
> in hearing from others.
> 
> [email-masked]
> 
> ps.  Thanks to those who have developed the glove software and hardware
> interfaces.  In my first attempt at hooking the glove up to my PC, 
> everythng worked as it was suppose to.  Including hi-res mode.
> 
> joe
> 

If you have a 386, you might look at the REND386 software kit for
doing it fast.  If not... you can get the C/floating point
version and use it to figure out how to speed your code up.

- Dave Stampe