Power Glove Ultra is an hacking experiment done in 2016 for a virtual reality controller based on the NES Power Glove© using the open source platform Arduino.

The original Power Glove (1989) was extremely cool but it did not make it as expected due to technological limitations of the period. It was very imprecise, it required ultrasonic sensors fixed to the TV in order to work and it was wired. Moreover, few games were released and the platform got mostly forgotten by the industry over a short time.

However, the Power Glove retained his role in cyberculture and movies, so that his iconic imagery survived until now.

The Power Glove Ultra project aims to give dignity to the original hardware, bringing it into the future by making it possible for it to send 360 degrees arm position data, track the finger movements, and adds compatibility with modern platforms without wires and extra hardware.

The Power Glove ultra features:

20 Hours lasting battery

10 Mt. Range Wireless connection over Bluetooth

5 fingers movement tracking (the original had only 4)

360° arm position tracking, using a combination of 3 different sensors: Gyroscope, Accelerometer and Compass

and of course, it's so bad!