Scanning the hardy Blues News, I initially mistook the headline ‘Peregrine Glove’ to be a most peculiarly-named videogame. Instead, it’s one of those totally, gloriously, ridiculous batshit controllers that occasionally make an inevitably doomed play to replace or augment the venerable keyboard. This experimental hand-wrapping has the autocue-based blessing of one of the world’s top DoTA players, so perhaps this time PC gaming controls really will be revolutionised…
(Er. I didn’t Photoshop that slogan onto the image, lest you’re worrying.)
I can’t pretend I’ve heard of Pu “Whisper” Liu before, but perhaps you have. Who here thinks he’s promoting the Peregrine out of earnest love for the product?
That introduction video amuses me highly, because it spends so much time talking about how comfortable the glove is and almost nothing on what it does. I didn’t come out of it at all sure why I should buy a Peregrine instead of a nice £5 wollen glove from Marks & Spencers.
Fortunately, some videos uploaded the next day explain things rather better:
The concept is this: the fingers and palm of the glove contain 20 sensors. When tapped upon or otherwise combined, these sensors activate hotkeys in your favourite electric videogame, meaning that you don’t really need a keyboard to play. Once you’ve memorised which sensors you’ve allocated to what, anyway. Why would you not want a keyboard? Perhaps you have an absurdly tiny desk. Perhaps you have RSI. Perhaps you believe that reducing the distance your fingers need to travel between keys gives you an edge in high-speed strategy games like DoTA. Perhaps you have a phobia of oblong-shaped objects.
More videos here.
Anyone fancy a Peregrine, then? I’m entirely sure I wouldn’t find any possible use for it myself, but then I’m not a pro-gamer. If I was, I’d surely own a hat made of gold and a harem containing a thousand Natalie Portman clones. As it is, I only own a hat made of bronze and a harem containing 48 Renée Zellweger clones.
No release date or price seems available as yet, but more about the Peregrine can be found here, including the revelation that it’s been in the making for five years. You know what else lasts five years? A £10 keyboard.
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Unfortunately, this is overshadowed by the awesomeness of the Novint Falcon, at least in my books. :< GOD DAMN I'D LOVE ONE OF THOSE THINGS.
…all the people…
Stupoider ninja
You know I was thinking they could create some other things to go along with this and make a lot of money. How about a mouse that has extra pads on it that you can touch with the glove so you can have a mouse with just 3 number buttons and a couple of those pads but each pad does something unique depending on which finger you touch it with. OR how about a simple pad you lay down on the desk and it has 3 or 4 small contacts on it you can touch the tips of your finger to and depending on which finger you use it does different things.
Still this all comes back down to the fact that the keyboard is just as fast if not faster and easier on your fingers IMO. I mean how much faster can you hit A if your finger is hovering directly over it or indeed already touching it.
Left handed wankers have now joined monkeys in their ability to produce Shakespear in sufficient numbers.
this Falcon thing looks INSANE.
It would be handy for changing your mouse DPI on the fly, and a lot better than taking your hands of the fire button of the mouse.
But then, I guess you could do that with a keyboard macro…
Dang that thing must be smelly after a 3 hour TF2 session.
What the hell is wrong with you people?
Please don’t answer that.
You’re all just awful.
I still want a game called “Peregrine Glove”. Damn Brent Baier for denying us!
I do actually own an absurdly tiny desk. So maybe this isn’t such a bad idea.
I LOVE MY POWER-GLOVE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya0F83Bmbl4
It’s so bad.
For a crapload of sponsor money I’d advertise an USB hamster cage.
Great another pointless controller. How do these things ever get made, I mean who bets the fortunes of their company on making a controller in the form of a glove?
About this Pu “Whisper” Liu chap. How exactly does one become “famous” for playing a mod of an old RTS game? I just don’t buy into this whole pro gaming thing at all. Are the countries that spawn these people, like America and Korea, really so excessively rich that they can afford to pay people to sit around and play computer games? What exactly do these companies get back for their investment in sponsoring these potatoes to sit around all day and play games?
So they get to stick the name of some gamer, who’s only heard of inside of his little pro gaming circle, and that means naff all to anyone else, on an advert for their latest joystick, sound card or whatever. Take Creative and their Fatal1ty range for instance, which they have to keep explaining and reminding people, is named after a pro gamer. They could have called it anything and it wouldn’t have made one difference to their sales.
@ Vinraith
look here for a mouse that will relieve your wrist
http://www.evoluent.com/
i would like to try one of these, their concept realy makes sense, that with a normal mouse you twist your arm and wrist and with theirs not.
Wait, what?
It took ‘em five years to come up with this?! The concept doesn’t even feel right mechanically. How is this less RSI and straining than a keyboard? Try pretending you’re using one intensely for about 30 seconds (think WoW raid or DotA) and you’ll see my point.
…meanwhile, at the MIT Media Lab… http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
I will not make any jokes. Hasn’t this been tried before and been an epic fail?
I love the power glove. It’s so bad.
Perhaps a little late to add this comment, as nobody will likely bother reading it, but if you get arm or shoulder or neck pain, one of those vertical mouse dealies is a great idea. A bit weird to get used to but get used to it you will, and it will relieve so much pain. If you are unsure whether it will help – next time you are using your mouse and you feel pain, just try rotating your hand so it is on its side, feel how much more relaxed your entire arm and wrist are.