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I’m Tri-Force: Game-Master
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The Power of Glove

Game-Master

I’m Tri-Force: Game-Master

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I’m Tri-Force: Game-Master.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
29
Timestamp in Movie
00:06:54
Uploaded
Jun 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Command International Pictures

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A documentary that chronicles the journey of the world's most notorious video game controller: the Power Glove. For the first time, discover the history and legacy behind the glove that helped inspire a generation.
(ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRONIC MUSIC) - The Power of Glove 00:09
(ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRONIC MUSIC)
I call human interface where the bits meet the flesh, - The Power of Glove 00:07
I call human interface where the bits meet the flesh,
I’m Tom Zimmerman & I’m the inventor of the original DataGlove, - The Power of Glove 00:12
I’m Tom Zimmerman & I’m the inventor of the original Dat...
We collaborated to create what became the DataGlove. - The Power of Glove 00:05
We collaborated to create what became the DataGlove.
A DataGlove, came from discussions we were having about ways... - The Power of Glove 00:07
A DataGlove, came from discussions we were having about ways...
To control electronic music with gesture. - The Power of Glove 00:04
To control electronic music with gesture.
The electronic music that was happening in the 70s went through... - The Power of Glove 00:06
The electronic music that was happening in the 70s went thro...
So much equipment that it was a total cerebral experience. - The Power of Glove 00:05
So much equipment that it was a total cerebral experience.
You had to think about what you wanted to do to make the sound, - The Power of Glove 00:08
You had to think about what you wanted to do to make the sou...
We wanna just feel it. We wanna make it interactive. - The Power of Glove 00:05
We wanna just feel it. We wanna make it interactive.
We wanna feel it. We don’t wanna know what all the details are. - The Power of Glove 00:04
We wanna feel it. We don’t wanna know what all the details a...
Jimi-Hendrix-kind of guitar coming out of the speakers. - The Power of Glove 00:04
Jimi-Hendrix-kind of guitar coming out of the speakers.
So I boiled it down to a problem, an engineering problem, - The Power of Glove 00:06
So I boiled it down to a problem, an engineering problem,
The DataGlove, - The Power of Glove 00:07
The DataGlove,
That was pretty much analagous to what the Power Glove was... - The Power of Glove 00:06
That was pretty much analagous to what the Power Glove was.....
As far as the sensors are concerned, the bend sensors. - The Power of Glove 00:05
As far as the sensors are concerned, the bend sensors.
I was so enamored with the idea of conducting virtual orchestras... - The Power of Glove 00:05
I was so enamored with the idea of conducting virtual orches...
And hooked them to my Atari 400. - The Power of Glove 00:04
And hooked them to my Atari 400.
Now I had a working system; - The Power of Glove 00:07
Now I had a working system;
It turned out what happened was once we finally built those systems, - The Power of Glove 00:08
It turned out what happened was once we finally built those ...