The VirtualHand SDK is a complete development solution for adding hand-motion capture, hand-interaction, and force feedback to simulation applications. It simplifies simulation for developers in mechanical CAD, R&D, or 3D e-commerce allowing them to "hand-enable" their applications. The SDK consist of three main components:

1. Device Manager: A multiplatform (W2K, NT, IRIX, and WinXP) network-aware device driver system for CyberGlove®, CyberTouch™, CyberGrasp™, and CyberForce® systems, as well as the Polhemus Fastrak and Ascension Flock of Birds six degrees of freedom (DOF) trackers.

2. Device Configuration Utility: A user friendly Windows-like interface to calibrate and configure your gloves, touches, grasps, and six-DOF trackers. The DCU allows you to save configurations and configure default settings.

3. VirtualHand API: A fully featured C++ development library including support for collision detection, hand interaction management, and force feedback.

The new suite of tools in the VirtualHand SDK represents a significant departure from the previous versions of VirtualHand software in that it:

• Offers an object-oriented model with an accompanying C++ library.
• Provides a general framework for constructing hand-enabled simulations from scratch or for integrating hand-interaction into existing applications.
• Includes a device configuration utility that lets users calibrate and configure Immersion's CyberGlove wired products and supported trackers in an intuitive and graphical manner.
• Offers real-time collision detection capabilities between 3D digital objects.
• Provides a force feedback interface for CyberGrasp and CyberForce system users.
• Offers full network support. A user can run an application on a host computer while getting device data from another machine, permitting interaction with geographically distributed teams.
• Includes grasping algorithms for picking up any arbitrary object loaded into the scene.
• Includes "ghost-hand" support for managing position-tracker offsets to prevent the graphical hand from passing through objects.
• Provides a fast polygon-level, collision-detection engine, including an open API for support of specialized third-party collision modules.
• Supplies an open API for model import and interfacing with third-party visualization software. A VRML/Cosmo (SGI Optimizer 1.2) implementation is included.
• Provides significantly improved overall structure with better run-time integrity and more complete error handling.
• Supplies acomplete set of open source demonstration applications showing how each of the toolkit features can be used in your development.

System Requirements:
Windows 2000 SP2 or Windows XP
Visual Studio 2005