VR and power gloves

[ROFbeddingfield]

I read about a few books in the late 1990s, early 2000s taht were about building your own power glove for VR head set use.

My question is, with the modern change in motion tracking software and hardware, why hasnt anyone gone back and dug out a fully functional power glove? If people were capable of making their own, with a big list of instructions and parts to get from a book,,, shouldnt the companies be able to do it now?

Would make control interesting

 

[Zloth]

They are. Google up DIY Haptic Gloves and you'll find some projects. I don't think you hear about it as much now because gaming is a lot more mainstream now so the tinkerers that like making their own stuff are a smaller portion of those interested in VR, even if there are more of them than there were in the 90's.