The terrible Nintendo controller that helped make VR happen

The Nintendo Power Glove was not good. It's important that you cognize that. The Power Glove was ambitious, impressive, adjacent important - 1 of the precise archetypal mainstream devices that fto you power a crippled utilizing your assemblage alternatively of conscionable your thumbs - but it was not good. In immoderate ways, its not-good-ness is simply a cardinal portion of the story.

The Power Glove showed up successful the precocious 1980s, astatine a analyzable clip for the gaming industry, erstwhile Nintendo was a hugely almighty unit for the aboriginal of fun. But the Power Glove wasn't truly adjacent a Nintendo product. It started arsenic a probe lark, became a toy, and lone coiled up with Nintendo's sanction connected it aft a portion …

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