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From: dpalmer@csuohio.edu (Darryl Palmer)
Subject: Re: PowerGlove Prices
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richards@tardis.mdcorp.ksc.nasa.gov wrote:

: 	Does anyone know what a reasonable price is for a
: 	Powerglove ?  I know a couple of local kids who have
: 	one they are willing to sell and I'm thinking of 
: 	buying it.

Not that this is the best newsgroup to discuss VR work, I got my 4 gloves
from VRASP (Virtual Reality Assoc. of Students and Professionals).  
If you can get it for under $50 you will be lucky, some surplus toy stores
might sell them for $20 but they are hard to find.  If you really want to
do some cool stuff with the glove, you can get ObjectGlove which is a
library written in C++.

What are you going to do with your glove?  I am currently trying to rig up
a type of obstacle course in which 4 players ('cause I got 4 gloves) can
compete.  The programming and stuff isn't a problem, the only thing I am
looking into now is whether to run it with a tether, buy a RF transmitter/
receiver kit (Like Ming's Holtek kit), or build my own.


Darryl Palmer
