Ya know - i tried for a few weeks to program with the P5 SDK, and the
accuracy of the glove was not enough to warrant using it. I had planned on
writing my own "gestures" type interface for AutoCAD - such that you could
define your own gestures that would launch commands. However, the pitch,
yaw, and roll were never accurate enough. Mine did a good job of
determining position (well, at least most of the time), but the orientation
was terrible. So any gestures that included anything other than position
and finger bends (AKA every gesture i wanted to define) was very difficult
to register correctly. I even wrote in functions to try to smooth those
things out so that sudden massive leaps in roll, pitch, and yaw would be
filtered out - but still it wasn't smooth enough.
I think the P5 is an interesting product, but it just wasn't as effective as
i'd like it to be. In my opinion, the roll and pitch should be ascertained
via some sort of other mechanism - perhaps something like a mercury switch -
rather than trying to determine the complete orientation via the IR. Mine
just got confused way too easily. Perhaps they've released newer versions
of the glove that are better - if so i'd love to write an interface for
it....
-Rich
"Andy F" wrote in message
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> Has anyone integrated the P5 glove in Acad? Seems like this would be a
> good project.
>
> Regards,
> Andy F.
