Brighton based motion capture specialists Synertial are showcasing their IGS glove, able to translate finger and hand motion for 3D artistry.

The IGS Glove has also been developed for users who need to collect hand and finger movement for their research, design, ergonomics, prototyping and simulation projects.

Said to take just 30 seconds to set up, 12 inertial sensors (similar to what you find in modern smartphones) are combined with an on-board gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer to record positional data.

Devices like Leap Motion and The Captury are making high quality tracking available for consumer prices but they rely on optical sensors. That technology limits its usability to operational environments where line-of-sight tracking is possible and extra time is often spent manually adding key-frames in post-production to fix occlusion errors.  The IGS Glove allows hand and finger tracking in any location and any situation (you could put your hand in your pocket for example and the data would still be captured).

The glove was showcased during Digital Shoreditch where people wearing the glove and Oculus Rift would see their virtual arm in a virtual world, just before it got chopped off by a guillotine.  That application was integrated into an environment built with UDK but out of the box the glove is compatible with other software packages like Unity, Motionbuilder, Siemens JACK & PSH and Dassault Delmia & Catia. 

Synertial (formally known as Animazoo)

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