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Cheap, harlequin gloves direct gesture-based computing

MAY 24, 2010
Physics Today
Wired : Nintendo Co’s popular Wii video game console senses the position of a player’s hands by means of strap-on controllers. The controllers in turn rely on tiny built-in accelerometers. Now, a team from MIT has devised what could be a simpler way to interact with a computer: multicolored gloves that the player wears and the computer monitors through a webcam.
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