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Hey there! Had a totally weird question I wanted to ask... Do you think this project might be at all useful to convert existing flight stick grips (E.G. the SCG GNX from VKBControllers, or the Constellation ALPHA or ALPHA-Prime from Virpil) into viable VR controllers? They've already got pretty much the right form factor, (minus any sort of grip triggers/sensors,) they've got tons of extra input options (~30+ inputs per hand, which is nice,) and as far as I know, (which admittedly isn't much when it comes to the fields of electronics and programming,) all the "important" hardware is located in the grips themselves, tho there's also a board or two usually located in the "base" that the grips/sticks mount to, and idk how important those are, so this line of thought could be completely hooped from the word "go".
Tbh, part of me was hoping it might be possible to make a sort of "Frankenstein's monster" fusion of the Index Knuckles (using the IR sensor arch, grip-pad, and possibly even the thumb trackpad (tho I wouldn't hold my breath on that one)) with the aforementioned flight stick grips to partially ease the process, tho knowing my luck, it would only make things exponentially harder.
As such, I figured I'd ask someone such as yourself for your more experienced input on the matter.
Anywho, please do correct me if I'm getting overly ambitious with any (or all) of my idea(s) here.
(Links to the stick grips I mentioned, if it turns out they're helpful:)
https://www.vkbcontrollers.com/products/scg-gnx-space-combat-grip-add-on?variant=39779832365174
https://virpil-controls.us.com/vpc-constellation-alpha-l.html
https://virpil-controls.us.com/vpc-constellation-alpha-prime-l.html