A WebXR experiment from Brielle Garcia simulates the Energy Glove as enter for a recreation on the unique Nintendo Leisure System.
It is so unhealthy.
The {hardware} accent from Mattel for the unique NES was launched in 1989 and immortalized in Fred Savage’s The Wizard that yr. Based mostly on VR’s first technology of tech from the Nineteen Eighties, the Energy Glove is one in every of gaming historical past’s most well-known examples of a cumbersome and short-lived gaming accent.
“I simply love the thought of recreating enjoyable and bizarre bits of gaming historical past in VR. As a child, I used to be so hyped to make use of the Energy Glove after seeing it in ‘The Wizard’,” Garcia advised me over direct message. “Although it might be a number of years earlier than I bought to strive one myself and be fully disenchanted. Recreating that feeling with leading edge VR tech is simply actually humorous.”
Within the years between The Lawnmower Man and The Matrix, the Energy Glove lived on in experiments as a low price software to check out gesture-based concepts associated to VR. Now, with Garcia’s experiment, the Energy Glove is simulated in a totally immersive web site.
WebXR websites are literally the primary locations cross-compatible with each Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and Meta Quest 3, with hand monitoring supported throughout each methods. Certainly, Garcia’s Energy Glove might be donned within the Internet browsers on each headsets, although it is just working as supposed thus far on Quest 3.
Digital is cool and all, however how does it examine to the true factor?
(Fairly nicely surprisingly) pic.twitter.com/b09NVgoV7E
— Brielle Garcia (@tacolamp) February 20, 2024
“This can be a enjoyable little showcase for what’s potential with WebXR/A-Body nowadays,” Garcia advised me. “Hand monitoring is absolutely supported and the gadgets are quick sufficient to even run emulators within the browser.”
Don Hopper visited the web site with Meta Quest 3. He was ready to make use of primary gestures as a form of steering wheel for an emulated recreation on the NES.
The venture remains to be beneath improvement and we’ll replace this submit with the URL when it is full. You’ll be able to observe Garcia’s progress as @tacolamp on X.
