From: Raymond de Vries (raymond++at++sara.nl)
Date: 07/25/2000 06:59:41
Hi all,
I am looking for any information about using 2 CyberGloves, VirtualHand
Suite and Performer in one (CAVE) app. While looking for information at
the Virtual Technologies site (makers of the CyberGlove) about the "Does
VirtualHand support Performer?" I found the shortest answer ever: "Yes".
No further information...
So this brings me to you: do you have any experience with this
combination? The VirtualHand toolkit has shown to do hand kinematics and
rendering, provided that I use the 'standard' setup as descibed in the
manual: a combination of glove and tracking sensor with the VirtualHand
scene graph. However, since I want to use it in our CAVE I can't let
VirtualHand control the tracking sensor directly (as it is already
controlled by the CAVElib (until you tell me otherwise :-)))
Ideally, I would like to build a Performer node from the data provided
by the VirtualHand toolkit, and let the VirtualHand toolkit handle the
kinematics. As I see it now this results in (roughly) 2 problems:
- How do I tell the VirtualHand toolkit to construct a human hand (as
they call it) without a tracking sensor, ie from only a glove?
- How do I use the VirtualHand data to build a Performer node? One
possibility seems to be to use the OpenGL display lists which are
generated by VirtualHand toolkit. Or not?
Thanks a lot
Raymond
Btw I am using VirtualHand Suite v1.0
--Raymond W. de Vries VR Consultant/Programmer - CAVE / Highend Visualization
SARA Computing Services Amsterdam The Netherlands
r a y m o n d ++at++ s a r a . n l http://www.sara.nl/
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