- I know Kung Fu.
Oh crap, go ahead and cut.
In spite of all the progress in VR
over the last 10 years
there's still one fatal flaw
breaking the immersion.
No matter what I do, even with the knuckles controllers
where I can open my hands entirely,
I am always acutely aware
that I'm just a guy in my living room,
in my underwear, waving around plastic fallacies.
Now there are companies out there
that make finger tracking glove style controllers,
but they cost anywhere
from $100 to literally $1000
to purchase.
But one man has risen, not high mind you
and said that's too much.
And he has made a product that
you can make for yourself for just $60,
$60 really?
- Yeah.
- And that's a thumbs up.
- Yes,
- I get it.
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- With me today,
I have two exciting things.
The Lucid glove prototype 4
which does things I have just never seen before.
It offers hand presence in VR
through the use of a bolted on vibe tracker
or Oculus quest, two controller.
And it actually offers not only finger awareness
but through the use of servos tied
to strings it offers you the ability
to grasps items in VR and feel force feedback
on your individual fingers.
The other thing I have,
is it's creator Lucas.
- Hello
- Lucas, talk to me,
start with why is it for sex things?
- It's primarily right now
for games for VR games,
- Sex games.
- For fun games
- Are sex games fun?
(Lucas chuckles)
Why do we want hands in VR?
- Well, so a big part of being able
to interact with objects in games
is being able to go and actually grasp them.
But so when you're actually holding
a controller in your hand
you're just grasping the same shape
every single time of this controller.
But so now what you can do is use your hands
as if there was nothing in them
and then actually be able to pick things up
and interact with them.
- Now you've clearly gone through multiple revisions
to get to the stage you're at today.
Do you wanna talk us through it a little bit
before we get into the crazy
demo we're about to do.
- So this is pretty rough.
It didn't really survive the shipping.
This was prototype one.
This was the one that went viral on TikTok
and it broke a lot
but it worked well enough at the time
to get, you know kind of the information
that I needed to make him better.
- You've gone from sort of a parallel aligned spool
to a perpendicular aligned spool.
You've got, what's clearly a much more robust system
for wire management or line management.
What else have you learnt?
- So moving on to prototype two,
mainly this is the first one
that didn't catch on fire,
but on top of that, this one was much better
at actually fitting on your hand
and staying there.
And this is the first time I actually
had it working inside of steam VR games
- [Linus] Prototype three.
- This is when I started messing around
with adding wireless capabilities to it,
getting the finger tracking really consistent
and getting it a lot more comfortable.
- And prototype four.
- This is the one that added haptic support as well
as much better my outing for everything
like the controllers
so that it stays all in one piece.
- And it's still wireless.
I'm assuming the battery is in here.
- No.
The battery is external
and we're gonna be using this
to power it for now.
- So what is in here?
- In there, that is actually all
of the wiring in order
to get this board to connect
to all of the rest of it.
A lot of it could be done without it
but I did it this way.
So it's easier to switch out parts
and test things.
- Got it.
And this is the emergency stop button, I suppose.
- That is the calibration button
that we're gonna use to
make it so that it actually matches your hand.
- Is it okay I just pressed that?
- Yeah, you're fine.
- I like big red buttons.
Let's go try it.
Wow. Lucas, this feels just like a plan.
I could swear I'm hold an apple.
And if you told me that this
was an actual genuine alpaca blend pillow
from Ittstore.com.
I believe you.
- All right.
So we are gonna hook you up here
and we're just gonna test all the motors on your fingers.
So you should feel resistance in...
- Oh, I definitely do.
- Okay, great.
Great. And then that's off.
That's on.
- Okay, that it's definitely on,
you know what it feels like?
It feels like the opposite
of like, have you ever had someone
like push on your tendons? - Yeah.
And close your hand.
It feels like the opposite of that.
Like it's holding my fingers open, you know?
Okay.
But I can't move them at all right.
- That's means there's a big thing in your hand.
- Got it.
So I'm holding like a big
- Choose your words, carefully.
- Grapefruit, basketball, cantaloupe.
Yeah, cantaloupe.
I'm holding a big cantaloupe.
Yvonne, if you're watching
it was definitely a Cantaloupe.
- All right.
Now let's put it into Bluetooth mode
and we will hook it up on the computer.
- Okay.
- So are you in VR?
- I am in VR.
- What do you see on your left hand?
- VR?
- Do you don't see it left hand?
- Oh, no, I don't see the left hand.
- So we're gonna turn on the vibe tracker.
Oh
- Oh, whoa.
- [Lucas] It started a little.
(Linus shouting)
- Whoa.
There's one not working.
That's really, really unfortunate you guys.
Oh there it is.
Now this, how has just open and closed?
That's it.
There's touch sensors on the controller,
but this that is so crazy.
Okay, what's next?
- [Lucas] Okay.
And now try to grab a cube
and see how it feels.
- [Linus] A Cube?
- [Lucas] Or anything.
- Geez.
(lively music)
Okay.
So as I get into range, the servos kick in.
- [Lucas] That's to prevent latency
in actually grabbing it.
- Okay. Geez.
- [Lucas] Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
It just tripped me out a little bit.
Like I finally managed to pick it up
and it just like Oh, it like, whoa.
Oh, keep, where are you?
Oh, I have your balls in my hands.
What is your plan?
- I really wanna do anything I can do
to make these gloves as accessible as possible.
Right now, the best way I can do that is
by open sourcing the project
and having people build it themselves.
But at some point
if there's a way that I can make
the gloves accessible
to people who don't have a 3D printer
or can't build their own gloves,
then I really, you know
at some point definitely wanna go down that route.
- So you'd say you're weeks away
from final product shipping.
- Oh yeah.
This one might only work
for like 5 seconds cause it's not as built.
- But it'll be the best 5 seconds of Linus life.
I knew it was a sex thing.
Whoa.
Are you getting this Brandon?
- [Brandon] Yep.
That's fricking awesome.
Okay, the left one's a little
Yeah, it's doing stuff.
But the right one is like, whoa,
look at that.
Can you see this?
That's crazy.
Whoa.
That, Hey, that's cool.
It's thin.
Okay.
That is next level.
Do you have a plan to Debulkify it a bit?
- [Lucas] Yeah, that's actually my next prototype.
My prototype five.
I'm planning on shrinking it as much
as I can maybe moving some stuff up the arm
and also trying to make it as durable
and reliable as I can.
- Okay. Cool.
(Linus chuckling)
What get over here.
Get, get, oh,
that's so cool.
I can turn dials.
This thing is absolutely nerdy.
I am very looking forward
to seeing the next prototype
which is apparently gonna be smaller,
more durable.
And you were saying people
in the community have even built ones
that are like better than yours.
- Totally, I mean
people have taken this kind
of reference design
and modeled their own versions off of it.
- That is absolutely incredible.
And you're still in school, I guess.
- Yeah.
- What was I doing at your age?
A lot of counterstrike source
and I'm not even good at it.
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Massive thanks to Lucas
for coming all the way out here.
Guys you definitely gonna wanna check out his discord.
Where else can people find you
- YouTube, TikTok, and Hackaday.
- YouTube, TikTok and Hackaday.
And if you guys are looking for another video
to watch maybe you'd enjoy
our smell-O-vision video
where we checked out another
really cool indie project that allowed us
to smell in VR,
ah, pine fresh.