P5

[xboxtito]

This ***t looks cool



The P5™ is a glove-like peripheral that has been engineered to capture five-finger bend sensitivity enabling gesture recognition, combined with an optical tracking technology that will capture the movement of the hand in 3D space with six degrees of freedom (X, Y, Z, yaw, pitch and roll), without the use of the mouse, joystick, keyboard or the like.

The P5™ is a lightweight and comfortable peripheral, which is a Universal Serial Bus (USB) based product that will allow for direct "plug and play" in personal computers as well as some of the game consoles, including the Xbox. . .



With its initial product family - the P5™ - Essential Reality is focusing on developing, manufacturing and distributing next-generation 3-D peripherals for the PC/Mac, console gaming and professional user communities. Essential Reality anticipates that the P5™ will revolutionize the way humans interact with computers and game consoles.

The P5™ uses Essential Reality's proprietary bend sensor and tracking technologies to enable full interaction with a 3-D environment. A USB based product, the first generation P5™ is designed for compatibility with the Microsoft Windows 98, Windows ME and MS 2000 operating systems. Additionally, Essential Reality expects that the P5™ will be compatible with the Microsoft XP, MAC OSIX and OSX operating systems, as well as the PlayStation2 and Microsoft Xbox game consoles.

While the P5 has yet to be released for any platform, it certainly peaks our interest. Will this product give online gamers the edge to beat out the rest?

We hope to get our 'hands' on one of these to test it out, and we'll be sure to post our findings once we do. There is more information on this product at the following links.
- Essential Reality Site - P5 Specifications - P5 Demo Movies (Quicktime)

About Essential Reality

Essential Reality was founded with the goal of becoming a leader in the design, development and integration of revolutionary tracking and sensory technologies that can be used to provide the ultimate interface between man and machine. Essential Reality plans on realizing this vision through multiple product offerings that primarily apply tracking and sensory technologies for different end-user applications that ultimately have diverse vertical market applications as well.

[MixMasta]

its looks cool, but how will it really handle,


ill be skeptical until some website or magazine reviews it and gives us the REAL lowdown

[xboxtito]

Did u look at the movie

[Kraft]

oh my god, if this makes it to the market AND black and white comes out for the xbox.... That is definately an insta-buy for me!

[Snoopy7548]

i thought he was gonna say that intel was coming out with a Pentium 5. lol

[speedbuggy76]

I noticed that at their site they estimate the cost at $150. If it stays at this price, about as many people will buy it as Steel Battalion(sp?).