Chad Leeper of Hewlett-Packard shows how movements of his hand, recorded by fiber-optics and sensors on his glove, are used in a Sim Graphics Âvirtual reality system to control motions of the image of an astronaut on the computer monitor at right during a demonstration at the Siggraph computer graphics conference in Boston on July 31, 1989. A system like this could allow human operators to safely control robots working in hazardous environments, like space or inside nuclear reactors. (AP Photo/David M. Tenenbaum) Ref #: PA.9197080
