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DataGlove
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DataGlove

In virtual reality, a glove wired to a computer that allows it to take input from a user's hand movements. Sensors in the glove detect the movements and transmit these to the computer in a digital format which the computer can interpret.

DataGlove is a trademark of VPL Research; the general term for such devices is wired glove.



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A "virtual reality," as anyone not living in one knows by now, is a real-time computer-generated environment that single or multiple users can inhabit with the aid of such devices as Datagloves, electronic bodysuits, 3D Eyephones, and the simulation of 360 |degrees~ sound.
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