A library for hand based interaction in virtual environments

My Bachelor Thesis

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From March to September 2007 I've been busy working for my Computer Science bachelor thesis at Università di Salerno, Italy.
I've been working under the supervision of Professor Vittorio Scarano in the friendly and stimulating environment of ISISLab.

I've been "playing" with a VR glove (the 5DT Data Glove 16) and a motion tracking system (the Intersense PCTracker), interfacing such hardware with the Quest3D engine and writing support software allowing gesture recognition to be utilized in different applications.

This is a demo video of what was accomplished:


Slides and the full thesis (in italian) are available for download:

Thesis: A library for hand based interaction in virtual environments
full text abstract final presentation slides

"Mid-thesis" seminar held at ISISLab: "Hands-On" 5DT Data Glove
slides


You can also check my ISISLab page.