Augmented Hyper Reality Glove

Watched Real Steel yet? That is one movie that has a whole lot of soul to it, and I don’t mind giving in a third or fourth watch at the cinemas. Gotta love shadow boxing robots no matter how old they are – going to prove that ‘old is gold’. After all, everyone loves the tale of an underdog, right? Well, back to reality, we have this particularly interesting DIY project known as the Augmented Hyper Reality Glove.

A bunch of researchers over at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction course decided to come up with a glove that will create all the relevant special effects that you’ve ever dreamed of during your more imaginative younger days when you pretended you were a robot. This Augmented Hyper Reality Glove is capable of identifying upper-cuts and karate chops thanks to flex and tilt sensors, while playing the accompanying sound effect thanks to an Arduino-powered Adafruit wave shield.

I can imagine just how a couple of guys can go nuts with this, role playing a Ryu vs Ken fight, but will someone make a Street Fighter soundboard to go with this so that echoes of “Hadouken!” can be heared all the way to the next block?

Edwin Kee
Categories: Gadgets
Tags: DYI