i know kung fu
oh crap go ahead and cut in spite of all
the progress in vr over the last 10 years there's still one fatal flaw
breaking the immersion no matter what i do even with the knuckles controllers
where i can open my hands entirely i am always acutely aware that i'm just a guy
in my living room in my underwear waving around plastic phalluses now there are
companies out there that make finger tracking glove style controllers but
they cost anywhere from hundreds to literally thousands of dollars to
purchase but one man has risen
not high mind you and said that's too much
and he has made a product that you can make for yourself for just sixty dollars
sixty dollars really yeah and that's a thumbs up yes i get it that's good you
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buildredux.com Linus and start creating your pc today with me today i have two
exciting things the lucid glove prototype 4 which does things i have
just never seen before it offers hand presence in vr through the use of a
bolted on vive tracker or oculus quest 2
controller and it actually offers not
only finger awareness but through the use of
servos tied to strings it offers you the
ability to grasp items in vr and feel
force feedback on your individual fingers the other thing i have is its
creator lucas hello lucas talk to me
start with why is it for sex things it's it's uh primarily right now for games
for vr games sex games for fun games are sex games fun
why do we want hands in vr well so a big part of being able to
interact with objects and games is being able to go and actually grasp them
but so when you're actually holding a controller in your hand you're just grasping the same shape every single
time on this controller but so now what you can do is use your hands as if there
was nothing in them and then actually be able to pick things up and interact with them now you've clearly gone through
multiple revisions to get to the stage you're at today do you want to talk us
through it a little bit before we get into the crazy demo we're about to do
yeah yeah so this is pretty rough it didn't really survive
the shipping this was prototype one this was uh the one that went viral on tick
tock and it broke a lot but it worked well enough at the time to get you know
kind of the information that i needed to make them better you've gone from
sort of a parallel aligned spool to a
perpendicular aligned spool you've got
what's clearly a much more robust system for wire management or line management
what else have you learned so moving on to prototype 2 namely this is the first
one that didn't catch on fire but on top of that
this one was much better at actually you know like fitting on your hand and
staying there and this is the first time i actually had it working inside of steamvr games prototype 3. this is when
i started messing around with adding wireless capabilities to it
getting the finger tracking really consistent and getting it a lot more comfortable and prototype 4 yeah so this
is the one that added haptic support as well as much better mounting for
everything like the controller so that it stays all in one piece yeah and it's
still wireless i'm assuming the battery is in here uh no so the battery is
external and we're going to be using this to power it for now
so what is in here so in there that is actually all of the wiring
in order to get this board um to connect to all of the rest of it um a lot of it
could be done without it but i did it this way so it's easier to switch out parts and test things got it and this is
the emergency stop button i suppose that is the calibration button that we're
going to use to make it so that it actually matches your hand is it okay that i just press that yeah you're fine
i like big red buttons let's go try it wow lucas this feels
just like a plan i could swear i'm holding an apple
and if you told me that this was an actual genuine alpaca blend pillow from
ltteststore.com i'd believe you all right so we are going to hook you up
here and we're just going to test all the motors on your fingers so you should feel
resistance oh why definitely okay great great and then that's off okay
oh yeah okay that's definitely on you know what it feels like it feels
like the opposite of like have you ever had someone like like push on your your
tendons and close your hand it feels like the opposite of that like it's
holding it's holding my fingers open you know yeah okay but i can't move them at all
right now that's cool because that's that means there's a big thing in your hand got it so i'm holding like a big
choose your words carefully um grapefruit basketball cantaloupe yeah
cantaloupe i'm holding a big cantaloupe
Yvonne if you're watching it was definitely a cantaloupe all right now
let's put it into bluetooth mode and we will hook it up on the computer
okay okay so are you in vr i am in vr what do you see on your left hand vr
d you don't see it left oh no i don't okay so we're gonna turn on the vive
tracker oh oh whoa hey it started a little
whoa there's one not working
that's really really unfortunate you guys
hey there it is now this has just opened and closed
that's it there's touch sensors on the controller but this
that is so crazy okay what's next okay
and now uh try to grab a cue and see how
it feels a cube or anything crap
geez okay so as i get into range the servos
kick in yep that's to prevent latency in actually
grabbing it okay
jeez are you okay yeah i'm fine it just
tripped me out a little bit like i finally managed to pick it up and it
just like oh it like whoa
okay where are you oh
i have your balls in my hands
what is your plan i really want to do anything i can do to make these gloves
as accessible as possible right now the best way i can do that is
by open sourcing the project and having people build it themselves but at some
point if there's a way that i can make the gloves accessible to people who
don't have a 3d printer or can't build their own gloves then i really you know
at some point definitely want to go down that road so you'd say you're
weeks away from final product shipping oh yeah this one might only work for
like five seconds because it's not as built oh yeah but it'll be the best five
seconds of Linus's life i do it was a sex thing
whoa are you getting this brandon that's freaking awesome
okay the left one's a little um yeah it's doing stuff but the right
one is like whoa
look at that can you see this
that's crazy
that okay that's cool oh
it's thin okay
that is next level so do you have a plan
to debulkify it a bit yeah that's actually my next prototype um my
prototype five i'm planning on shrinking it as much as i can maybe moving some
stuff up the ARM and also trying to make it as durable and reliable as i can oh
cool what
i can get to get over here i get to get
oh that's so cool i can turn dials
this thing is absolutely
nutty i am very looking forward to seeing the next prototype which is
apparently going to be smaller more durable and you were saying people in
the community have even built ones that are like better than yours totally i
mean people have taken this kind of reference design yeah and
modeled their own versions off of it that is absolutely incredible and you're
still in school i guess yeah man what was i doing at your age
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watch maybe you'd enjoy our smell-o-vision video where we checked out another really cool indie project
that allowed us to smell in vr ah pine
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