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Figure 7.6 CyberGlove glove of Virtual Technologies. (Illustration: Immersion S.A., with permission)
finger movements with the help of a calibration procedure. PowerGlove, which is no
longer manufactured, used this system.
The strain gauge gloves require thin gauges covered in a flexible elastic mate-
rial (Nylon and Lycra-based). This type of glove is definitely more efficient, but also
more expensive. The measurements are coded on eight bits and are transmitted at the
frequency of 100 Hz. The resolution is as per the degrees (Figure 7.6).
The Immersion Corporation company offers CyberGlove with several ...