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[NintendoReport]

Article: https://fstoppers.co...e-filming-54913

 

Warning: brief foul language in video.
 

 

 

If you were a kid of the 1980s like me and loved Nintendo, you absolutely remember the Power Glove. In fact, I think that was one of the only scenes I remember from the movie "The Wizard" starring Fred Savage of "The Wonder Years" was the debut of this badass piece of 80s tech. Fast forward to 2015. The animator of the Adult Swim show "Robot Chicken" has modified his Power Glove to control his stop-motion workflow. Woah, dude.

[Mewbot]

"Shigiru Miyamoto is the CEO of Nintendo"

 

I'm sorry, the rest of it was really cool and interesting but when he said that I had to stop myself from laughing. 

 

Anyway, it's awesome that the power glove is still being used so many years later, and it was interesting to see how animators capture that kind of stop motion (really slowly). 

[Raiden]

Let me know when they use Virtual Boy

[3Dude]

Oh man. The power glove. I remember using a hacked powerglove with rend386 and shutter glasses.

THe power glove games all sucked horribly. But, it wasnt the power gloves fault, it was actually a pretty amazing peice of equipment, the nes just couldnt utilize it. Didnt have anywhere near the power. THe power glove needed a 3d virtual environment. The thing was pretty dang accurate. Still have the book that detailed how the power glove worked, down to the equations it used, The Virtual Reality Construction Kit. Then came Vr386, by far the fast rendering engine in all of existance, and it was specifically built for VR!!! Were talking over a whoping 20,000 Polygons per second!!!

Thing was very, very accurate, even by todays standards. It kind of kicks the crap out of move, wiimotes, and kinect in some areas. It was literally like having a virtual hand in 3d space, down to individual fingers being tracked (provided you didnt damage the conductive ink when hacking your glove...). Accurate to a physical resolution of about 1/4th an inch at a distance of 5 ft, 30 times a second iirc.