A Student Creates Virtual Reality Gloves for $22
And there's an instruction for you to recreate them.
A student known as LucasVR on YouTube designed and built his own gloves for virtual reality for just $22! The design is not based on new unique technical decisions but rather uses cheap smart solutions. The video above shows the materials used and discusses the process. Lucas used a 3D printer, some parts from an electric guitar, and a couple of other cheap details.
The end result also has a cheap microcontroller to work and detect movements using a custom Python-based app. The app collects movement data and turns the pair of gloves into two VR hands. An Oculus Quest 2 camera is used to define a user's position.
The end result also has a cheap microcontroller to work and detect movements using a custom Python-based app. The app collects movement data and turns the pair of gloves into two VR hands. An Oculus Quest 2 camera is used to define a user's position.
Those gloves can even be used in Half-Life: Alyx and the thing is that Lucas doesn't want to sell to a giant company - he decided to share the app and the full how-to instruction for free. Learn more and find the files here.
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