{"id":172810,"date":"2023-09-26T00:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T05:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/youtuber-builds-vr-gloves-for-just-22"},"modified":"2023-09-26T00:25:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T05:25:21","slug":"youtuber-builds-vr-gloves-for-just-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/youtuber-builds-vr-gloves-for-just-22","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber builds VR gloves for just $22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/youtuber-builds-vr-gloves-for-just-223.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTuber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCjWBEvwq3iNLXEdrGTR5S9A\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas VRTech<\/a> has designed and built a pair of finger-tracking VR gloves using just $22 in materials \u2014 and he\u2019s released all the details on the build so others can make their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> We use our hands to manipulate objects in the real world, but in VR, users typically have to use controllers with buttons and joysticks.<\/p>\n<p>That breaks some of the immersion, limiting the use of VR for not only gaming, but also applications like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/is-the-future-of-therapy-virtual-a-look-into-virtual-reality-therapy\">therapy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/videos\/bringing-virtual-reality-to-brain-surgery\">job training<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTuber Lucas VRTech has designed and built a pair of finger-tracking VR gloves using just $22 in materials \u2014 and he\u2019s released all the details on the build so others can make their own. The challenge: We use our hands to manipulate objects in the real world, but in VR, users typically have to use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}