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June 17, 2015 07:09 am GMT

These wireless gloves let you pew pew pew things in VR with your fingers

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LOS ANGELES — What's the best virtual reality input? Some say traditional game controllers are the way to go and Oculus is working on its futuristic Oculus Touch, but the startup Manus thinks wireless gloves are the way to go.

The company showed off a prototype of its wireless VR gloves, which are also called Manus, at E3 in Los AngelesMashable had a chance to try them on and see if they're really the future of VR input.

See also: Oculus has figured out hand input for VR, and it's called Oculus Touch

The developer kit model I tried on consisted of a pair of black gloves with a little black box containing motion sensors for hand movement tracking attached on top of them. Individual fingers are tracked through flexible sensors inside of the gloves. After putting the black gloves on, I also had to slip a yellow and green cover over each glove; Manus reps told me they're necessary for positional tracking. Read more...

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