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Virtual Reality: Concepts and Technologies
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Virtual Reality: Concepts and Technologies

by Philippe Fuchs, Guillaume Moreau, Pascal Guitton
July 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
432 pages
16h 6m
English
CRC Press
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Chapter 7
Manual motor interfaces
Philippe Fuchs
Contributor: Hervé Mathieu
7.1 INTRODUCTION
7.1.1 Location sensor and dataglove
This chapter deals with motor interfaces that are specifically dedicated to the hand.
In the real world, grasping an object by hand is a phenomenon that brings into play,
even if subconsciously, complex processes at the sensorimotor and cognitive levels. The
motor interface that seems to be the most suitable, in theory, is the dataglove which
can measure hand and finger movements. A lot of designers have used the dataglove
as a tool to handle virtual objects without much thought. Handling is one of the four
categories of “Virtual ...
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