It would be nice to see LucidGloves work without having to start SteamVR. This repo attempts to plot glb files in the same way as Steam, so that you can test out experimental designs, such as gloves with potentiometers per finger joint, without having to get it working with SteamVR.
This is the script you want to run if you want to test your LucidGloves without VR!
Reads serial values then plots the hand live using multithreading.
In order to work, you need to define the COM port that the Arduino is using and make sure no other program is using it. E.g. SteamVR, Arduino IDE's serial monitor or Cura
Sends flexion values from GUI sliders to OpenGloves using a NamedPipe, allowing the testing of OpenGloves without a physical glove.
Features 6 sliders, one for overall curl and one for each finger.
Moving these sliders will generate plots of the hand using those curl values.
Attempts to plot the OpenGloves glb file.
The glb file is hierarchical, so the end of the finger cannot just be plotted, it has to be calculated by considering the other points in the finger. Relative positions have to be built into global positons.
glb/gltf2.0 refrence guide
glb Nodes Tutorial
OpenVR Hand Skeleton Docs
3Blue1Brown, Visualizing quaternions
Implimenting Forward Kinematics