• Hawke@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    No, he’s right. The power glove was garbage from the get-go. Really cool cyberpunk thing on paper but … hell, we still aren’t there today!

    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      We absolutely could be “there” today but the lingering aura of the Powerglove is still so powerful that nobody has tried to make a better one. It got clowned on so hard the first time that the echoes of that are still rippling through our global subconscious 35 years later.

      Also, Nintendo would probably try to sue you if you sold a glove-based controller, even 35 years later.

      • Overshoot2648@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        I’d argue that haptic gloves, valve index controllers, and hand tracking are there, but the hardware for VR isn’t quite cheap enough for it to be mainstream.

    • Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      Even if it worked well, the idea was bad from the start. No one wants to control a game with motion controls.