AR/VR Glove Project Uses Arduino Kit for Inertial Tracking

This is a pretty impressive virtual/augmented reality glove project that uses an Arduino kit for inertial tracking -- i.e., though the glove wearer's actual finger movements:

It's the brainchild of Mirek Burkon, who tells me he'd like to release a commercial addition. More details from the Reddit thread where he announced this demo:

• Yes, for now it's Arduino Uno & Unity, it will change

• The hand model was borrowed from LM SDK (the most useful part of the package;)

• 12 IMUs, two for each finger, no flex sensors for now

• Latency not measured or worried about yet

• Haptic feedback coming

The intertial aspect is the most interesting feature to me. Unlike Leap Motion-type tech, which depends on camera-based motion detection, this system connects actual hand/finger movement with its virtual analog -- which should reduce latency and make the virtual movements more fluid and realistic. I've asked Mirek to visit Comments if you have further questions for him.

@slhamlet Depends on where it goes, but would like to make it commercial.

— Mirek Burkon (@MirekBurkon) September 8, 2015

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Great post, I tweeted out and followed you