Glove one is a smart glove that allows users to feel sensations when interacting with virtual objects in VR. It has sensors on the fingers and palm that can detect touches and translate them into vibrations to simulate the weight, texture, and other physical properties of virtual objects. This provides a more immersive VR experience by allowing the user to truly feel virtual objects. The gloves use IMU sensors and inertial guidance technology to precisely track hand movements and enable interactions with virtual worlds.
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Virtual Reality Glove Enables Users to Feel VR Objects
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2. What’s Gloveone
• Smart gloves dubbed Glove one will
enable users to feel sensations when
interacting with virtual objects. The
brainchild of Spain-based
NeuroDigital Technologies, Glove
one aims to give VR users a more
immersive experience and will
enable them to "feel" what they see.
3. Glove one
• Glove one enables users to feel and touch any virtual object that they can see on
the screen or in their VR headsets.
• If a virtual apple is shown on the screen, with Glove one, you will be able to feel
its shape or weight, sense all of its physical features, and even smash it!
5. Working
• The gloves have several sensors built in, which can be found near the thumb,
index, and middle fingers, as well as the palm.
• These sensors have the ability to sense each other so that the wearer can perceive
what it is like to grasp a VR object such as a book or a pen.
6. Working – Cont’d
• They do it by translating touch sensations into vibrations.
• There are 10 actuators distributed along the palm and fingertips of Glove one,
which vibrate independently at different frequencies and intensities,
reproducing accurate touch sensations.
7. Capabilities
• The capabilities are to feel the weight of objects, differentiate textures, feel the
sound waves, caress, alerts like feel a warning about dangerous sensations like
fire, smart controller, etc.
• Gloveone technical specification include the most cutting edge technologies to
ensure comfort and an extreme in game experience.
8. Technology – IMU Sensor
• We not only achieve the same precision as bare hands, but we even improve hand trackingWe not only achieve the same precision as bare hands, but we even improve hand tracking
thanks to sensor fusion with IMU sensor technology!thanks to sensor fusion with IMU sensor technology!
• An inertial measurement unit works by detecting the current rate of acceleration using one or more accelerometers,
and detects changes in rotational attributes like pitch, roll and yaw using one or more gyroscopes.
• And some also include a magnetometer, mostly to assist calibration against orientation drift.
• Inertial navigation systems contain IMUs which have angular and linear accelerometers (for changes in position);
some IMUs include a gyroscopic element (for maintaining an absolute angular reference).
• Angular accelerometers measure how the vehicle is rotating in space. Generally, there is at least one sensor for each
of the three axes: pitch (nose up and down), yaw (nose left and right) and roll (clockwise or counter-clockwise from
the cockpit).
9. IMU Sensor
• Linear accelerometers measure non-
gravitational accelerations of the vehicle. Since
it can move in three axes (up & down, left &
right, forward & back), there is a linear
accelerometer for each axis.
• A computer continually calculates the
vehicle's current position. First, for each of the
six degrees of freedom (x,y,z and θx, θy and θz),
it integrates over time the sensed acceleration,
together with an estimate of gravity, to
calculate the current velocity. Then it
integrates the velocity to calculate the current
position.
10. IMU Sensor
• Inertial guidance is difficult without computers. The
desire to use inertial guidance in the Minuteman
missile and Project Apollo drove early attempts to
miniaturize computers.
• Inertial guidance systems are now usually combined
with satellite navigation systems through a digital
filtering system. The inertial system provides short
term data, while the satellite system corrects
accumulated errors of the inertial system.
• An inertial guidance system that will operate near
the surface of the earth must incorporate Schuler
tuning so that its platform will continue pointing
towards the center of the earth as a vehicle moves
from place to place.
12. Conclusion
• To Conclude the Gloveone is a best example for upcoming technology.
• This technology is better when compared with Facebook’s Oculus
Rift, Google’s Cardboard and Microsoft’s HoloLens.