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July 20, 2014

Is the P5 glove useful for anything?

I was browsing the net and saw a P5 glove for 20 euros, and i am wondering if it is worth it.
Can it be used with unity easily?
Is there a newer cheap alternative? Is the leap motion miles ahead?

    2 replies

    cybereality
    Inspiring
    July 20, 2014
    Unfortunately not. While it looks cool, and is affordable, that's where it ends.

    The bend sensors work good enough, but the positional/orientation tracking is unacceptable. It barely works at all, gets lots of jitter, loses tracking constantly, etc. It just wasn't designed very well, even at the time it was new.

    There are a bunch of different options coming soon, for now you will probably be OK with a Razer Hydra (if you can find one).
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    WiredEarp
    Participant
    July 24, 2014
    They are ok (better than any alternatives < $100 I think) if you combine one with a Hydra, aftermarket optical, or other tracker. As cyberreality says, the positional tracking is crap.

    I wrote a Unity3D dll/demo for them, and also a Hydra integration mouse driver - they're on mtbs3d here along with some more detailed info about my findings after using a couple of P5 gloves.

    http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=145&t=19550
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