The 1989 Power Glove promised hand-gesture control for the Nintendo Entertainment System. In practice, its ultrasonic transmitters had to be calibrated against three receivers attached around the television, the finger motions often failed to register, and only two games were designed specifically for it. It looked like the future and controlled like the future had declined to participate.
Sources: Smithsonian Lemelson Center: Success Born of Failure · National Videogame Museum: Power Glove
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