Borkachev on 14 April 2008
Neat. I hadn't seen that before. I'm not sure what kind of games it would be useful with, but maybe they're on to something.
I don't think it mentions anything about it in the patent filing, but a device like that could adjust the stiffness of each finger's movement on the fly to simulate the feeling of grabbing and holding things. If you picked up a rock, the fingers could lock at a certain point so it would feel like you were really holding it.
says a down side is the user would have to take them on and off which could become frustrating.
That quote is talking about conventional VR gloves. These things (basically open-backed gloves) are designed to avoid that problem.
Of course, most likely Sony was just covering its bases and this thing will never see the light of day.
