to animate the hand of a virtual character. Alternatives An alternative to wired gloves is to use a camera and computer vision to track the 3D pose and trajectory of the hand, at the cost of tactile feedback. Popular culture The film adaptation of Minority Report makes use of wireless gloves to control futuristic computer-like peripherals. The Mattel Power Glove was prominently shown off in the Nintendo product placement film The Wizard, memorably wielded by antagonist Lucas Barton (Jackey Vinson). Academic and research projects The concept of a wired glove has been traditionally popular in the research and engineering community. Engineers continue to develop prototypes that use innovative sensor technologies and architectures to achieve the goal of gesture recognition. For example, one such project is the Smart Glove, developed in 2009 by the then electronics engineering students Arvind Ramana, Subramanian KS, Suresh and Shiva. This project was an innovative design making interesting use of hall effect switches and custom home made bend sensors. One major barrier to adoption of datagloves is sweat. See also Gesture recognition Hand-over Motion capture Open-source robotics Project Digits Robotic arm References External links Glove-based input interfaces Multimodal interaction Computing input devices Gloves Virtual reality Pointing devices Game controllers Haptic technology History of human–computer interaction Gesture recognition