REIHLO

With the releases of the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Microsoft Hololens, and Google Daydream, virtual reality is rapidly evolving from an awkward, emerging concept into an industry in and of itself. Advances in VR hardware come out on a near monthly basis, and the virtual environments users interact with seem to be matching pace with improvements in both their expansiveness and overall interactability. Unfortunately, existing hardware peripherals for VR lack key features needed to fully leverage what these environments have to offer. Namely, they still rely on physical designs derived from traditional-style video game controllers. For instance, a simple interaction such as picking up an object is accomplished by pointing a controller at the object and pressing a button. Rather than this, Reihlo believes the future for interacting with virtual environments lies in e-wearables; clothing with integrated electronics. Their project, Gestur, aims to meet this vision by providing a glove-based..