MULTI DATA GLOVE INTERACTION IN VIRTUAL

ENVIRONMENT

To provide multi data glove interaction in virtual environment using 5DT

data gloves and vizard software. Initially single data glove is connected and
interacted in virtual reality and the analyses have been done. It will be extended to
multiple glove interaction in further proceedings. Virtual reality is one of the
developing technologies in various fields. The man-machine interfaces plays key
role, which would give interactions in the virtual environment. To achieve more
realistic object manipulation, glove-based input devices are commonly chosen as
the human-machine interfaces of virtual reality applications. Data glove is one of
the important gesture input device which works on the principle of magnetic
tracking or some optical communication. It provides the interactions by using
various sensors and magnetic coils or by using various light sources and cameras.
The input is given by using the fingers of the hand and it will be displayed
virtually. The data glove is a multi-sensory device that generates a large amount of
data and is more complex than other input devices. To reduce the complexity in
this device is reduced by replacing with VR band which has similar technologies of
data glove. When the fingers are bent, the sensors are also bent and the generated
outputs are measured. Based on these outputs, the bending angles of the fingers are
calculated. When users wear the VR band envelope, the stretching and bending of
the finger joints occur very frequently.