The
Peregrine fits like a... well, it fits quite comfortably. I found it to be a bit awkward to attempt typing (on a keyboard) while wearing the
Peregrine, but I don't typically wear gloves when typing. I was able to do it, mind you, it just felt a little strange and I was a bit self-conscious about it. Of course, you're not
supposed to use a keyboard in conjunction with the
Peregrine, you're supposed to use the
Peregrine instead of the keyboard. True, true, so let's talk of how that went.
The Peregrine is great for getting a key pressed when that's what you need to do. Game applications, for example, may require you to hit (W), (A), (S) and (D) to move around, Space to jump or, perhaps, Enter to continue. The Peregrine is great for these sort of things. Actually typing, on the other hand, is much less forgiving; hold a key too long and the repeat feature starts repeating your character all over the place. It would be possible to type using the Peregrine, but you'd need a lot of practice and you would probably want to adjust your computer's key repeat settings to be a bit more forgiving.
I tried out the Peregrine with Civilization V, mapping frequently used hot keys to the glove, primarily on fingertips for use with thumb tip activation. This allowed me to make very simple motions that, basically, looked like I was counting on my fingers. Little finger to thumb and this unit was told to do nothing this turn. Ring finger to thumb and another unit was told to go on alert. Middle finger to thumb and a unit is told to fortify until healed. Pointer Finger to thumb and I've told a unit to attack. Mapping actions with this escalating order allowed me to quickly learn which fingertip to use for my desired action. I also used Middle finger to the palm pad as Escape, so that I wouldn't hit Escape by accident, but could quickly make this motion and pull up the Menu.
The Peregrine comes with a program called "GloveBox" for creating and managing profiles and keymaps. You can create and save as many "Profiles" as you like, perhaps making one profile for games and one for business apps. Or, if you prefer, you can make a new profile for each game you have. Each profile has five different Keymaps for you to map for different things - perhaps one for each faction in a game with different factions with different actions. Perhaps you could use one keymap for "texting" other players... the possibilities are limited only by your creativity and manual dexterity. Best of all, once you've set up a keymap and it's loaded into your Peregrine, it's in the glove. Once programmed, the Peregrine works as a USB keyboard and can be taken to another PC, console or device without any special drivers and used with the existing programming.
In fact, as a test, I mapped in a keymap for use with the PS3 with the Glovebox program running on my PC and then took my Peregrine and tried it out with the PS3's web browser. The PS3 simply recognized the Peregrine as a USB keyboard, and I was able to reload the page, hit (X), (Circle), (Square) and (Triangle) as well as (Start) and (Select). The only problem I noticed with this is the aforementioned key repeat issue; occasionally when I hit "back," it would go back more than one page if I held my fingers together at all, rather than simply tapping them together.
