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Essential Reality P5 Gaming Glove | 
 enlarge | Brand: Essential Reality
Category: CE
List Price: $188.95
Buy New: $89.00
You Save: $99.95 (53%)
New (2) from $89.00
Rating:  11 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.5
Dimensions (in): 17.4 x 8.2 x 6.6
MPN: P5GLOVE
Model: P5GLOVE
UPC: 833589001010
EAN: 0833589001010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: New in box! 2 week lead time on shipping.
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Product Description
The P5 is an innovative, glove-like peripheral device, based upon proprietary bend sensor and remote tracking technologies, that provides users total intuitive interaction with 3D and virtual environments, such as games, websites and educational software. Brandish a mighty sword in a video game, walk through an online room, or pick up objects on screen - with the power of P5 in your hands, you can fully harness the potential of today's lifelike 3D and virtual gaming environments like never before.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Still In Progress... September 16, 2007
Robert Beardain
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yes, the P5 out of the box has its shortcommings. It is eratic on all 6 degrees of freedom and not very usefull with games or any software for that matter. I have honestly never got the thumb bend sensor to work. The thumb sensor wouldn't be all that usefull anyways due to the fact that the thumb is 3d and not 2d so you would need 2 bend sensors. Oh, the finger sensors are not based on fiber optics but a technique that detects deformation of a metal strip. The "0,0,0" position is the center of the base station. The FPS, ie update rate, of the glove is only around 15-30 FPS...but look at what they have in the "high tech" labs. There rates are down around 5-7 FPS back when the P5 came out.
GOOD NEWS!!!
The P5 drivers have been open sourced. Not usefull for the average user but there are people out there, like myself, that are making changes to the code. Simply download the latest driver from the group shown below and replace the existing and your good to go.
These changes add filters to the 6 degrees of freedom to prevent the jitters. The changes also prevent the random mouse movement when outside the "mouse pad." There is also a program called Programmable Input Emulator (P.I.E.) that allows you to map movements to actions. This allows you to bind your pointer finger to the key that fires your gun... PIE allows you to bind almost any periferal to any other. ie, Link the up arrow to scroll the mouse up. Macros are also handled...wave your hand and have a complex move be performed automaticaly. Also in PIE is Voice to Action and Text to Speech.
This and more info is available free at the yahoo group "P5GLOVE".
The P5 might not be sold in stores anymore but it is far from dead.
...Oh, Don't buy a Nostromo N50...get a Nostromo N52...much better for games ;)
Temp review November 13, 2006
K. Gleason (Chicago, IL USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I haven't gotten this yet, I just ordered it this morning, so I'll edit this if I have to. I did some research on this item. Most of the reviewers here that are negative are mostly using this item for FPS GAMES. What appears to me, is, that this isn't JUST for games, but for other things, like, 3d modelling, music creation, animation, etc. I'll be using it for all these once I get my hands on it ( literally, lol ). Of course I'm going to try it for games as well.
The other thing about the reviewer that said something about that it's slow to respond interactions...Perhaps maybe its your modem? 56k perhaps?
An ok peripheral February 16, 2006
Arctic Blue (Boston, MA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this with doubts, and they proved to be well founded. While not an unpleasant experience it was difficult to get this to work right. It came with Hitman so I wasn't to mad.
Interesting gimmick, but difficult to use September 10, 2005
Radek Michalik (Chicago)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I bought this, I made a deal with myself: I know that since it went off the market, it can't be an incredible product, so if I buy it, I shouldn't blame myself if I spent $20 on something I may never use again. Making this deal was worth it.
The glove is an interesting device. It fits your hand very well and everything is pretty well thought-out (finger movements, certain clicking combinations, etc.) The problem is in the execution. You need to keep your hand within a certain distance from the receiver, or the signal gets messy and the mouse pointer on the screen starts going nuts. Think of it as a mouse pad in the air. You move off the mouse pad, and the signal becomes erratic. Problem is, with the real mousepad, you can see its boundaries. With this "invisible pad", you can't, and find yourself straying off to the sides or top or bottom quite a lot. I suppose with a lot more practice, I could become as proficient at it as I am with the mouse, but since I've had many years of practice with the mouse... I'll stick to that, and use the glove if I feel wacky.
Conclusion: Its original going price of over $100 was ridiculous. For $20, it's a fun little toy that you may be able to make use of. Or maybe not. Just don't expect to be able to do magic with it right out of the box.
 A Great thing for young gamers!!! March 2, 2004
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
It was a great game and i loved playing with it. I cant beleive the person who thinks it a peice of ..... It was the best game i ever played. they should make it for playstation 2.
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