Here are a few sketches I’ve been working on with this VR Virtual Grip Glove concept. The basic idea is to add a lightweight cable on the outside of your fingers to act as an additional software controlled, external tendon for each finger. In this way the fingers would move normally but could oppose the gripping force applied by the flexor tendons in your hand, stopping the cable and your grip at a certain point between a flat open hand and a closed fist. One example would be picking up a football in a VR game which would stop your grip based on the size of the football, each finger would feel like it is contacting the surface of the virtual football without going through it.
