The World's First 3D Gaming Mouse 67
Jay Cruise writes "The world's first 3D gaming mouse was unveiled at the 2006 E3 Expo. The Game O' 3D gaming mouse offers PC gamers an 'unfair advantage' by allowing them to execute moves that are not possible using just a keyboard and a traditional 2D mouse. For example, in FPS, Game O' offers gamers a way to move forward, backwards, sideways, jump, crouch, pitch, yaw and roll without using the keyboard." For a more cynical opinion, I submit to you Ars Technica's take on the device. From that piece: "Your head just explodes. It's a terrible thing, and the nub on the side for some reason randomly makes you crouch. The man showing me the product was quick to add that you could set up the controls however you wanted. The software to do this even looked nice. This doesn't help the fact that playing a first person shooter with one hand is a bad idea. You'd still need a hand free to like, you know, reload? You could probably use those buttons, but in the demo they were set to look up and down. What if you're playing a game where you can peek around corners? You simply need the keyboard."
E4? (Score:5, Funny)
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What??? (Score:3, Insightful)
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A buttered snack left over from breakfast, perfect for eating with your newly-free hand.
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Wrong market perhaps? (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps they need to find a market segment that has a need to have a free hand whilst using a computer?
Euphemisms (Score:3, Funny)
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My personal favourite is "browsing for left-handed websites", although I've hears a friend refer to it as "flogging on"...
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remember LogiTech's Cyberman? (Score:1)
I had a Creative Labs 3D mouse that predates that! (Score:1)
I've owned logitech cyberman 1 & 2 (Score:5, Interesting)
after a weekend marathon of playing descent, tweaking the cyberman, and playing again
I got it to where I could play the game better than with any other combination of hardware.
Unfortunately, by the nextweekend I couldn't remember which twist was which axis.. no muscle memory to play with.
the curve is very steep
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Then I switch it to the config for an F-15, and I'm completely lost. Like you said, too many buttons!
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Of course, this comes from a guy who would later kick ass with a joystick/mouse combo in q2 and especially aq2. Of course, it's been so long since I played with a joystick that I just use the keyboard/mouse combo now.. and I get my ass kicked in everygame
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I loved that thing. Descent was the absolute best game for that controller. I could finally take out bosses with the SpaceOrb that I just couldn't get with joystick and/or keyboard. It provided so much control. Always ended up stopping "game time" after a few hours because my hands would get cramps.
No need to mention that's also the only real reason to stop a different kind of activity... ahem.
Ro
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Space Orb 360 (Score:2, Informative)
I thought it was the easiest, most obvious game controller I'd ever seen, but a lot of other people couldn't use it. Not saying I'm "better" in any way. I just think that it was made for a certain type of brain, and I've got one.
I hope all three never break. Jay at B [planethardware.com]
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So that's what we were doing wrong. (Score:3, Funny)
I wasn't aware 3d controllers were new (Score:2)
I guess the story here might be that this device is more consumer oriented... And that it seems to suck.
Either way, 3D controls aren't new, they are just not common at home.
http://www.3dconnexion.com/products/3a.php [3dconnexion.com]
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it's one of those ideas that looks good on paper but really not that great in practice. U
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Hmm (Score:4, Insightful)
You mean the Nintendo Wii?
Yo motherf*cker Wii? (Score:1)
Slashdotted, and nyud.net doesn't have the page, so how does compare to the Wiimote?
Old idea (Score:2)
I never understood why they didn't catch on as they worked quite well.
You simply had a rigid ball and you had to move it the way you wanted your part to move, push, pull, twist etc.
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Re:The controller I'd like to see -- (Score:1)
If you exclude the pressure sensitivity on the buttons (which was tried with the PS2, and failed to be useful), you're describing the Wii's controller.
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I saw a keyboard with a mouse under it recently (Score:1)
Heres a link [combimouse.com] for the curious.
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My mouse is 2 dimensional? (Score:1)
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Wii Games (Score:2, Interesting)
waiting for good config... (Score:1)
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Welcome to a while ago mate, a long while ago...
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THey are not the first (Score:1)
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One handed control sounds good to me (Score:1)
Does anyone else... (Score:2)
3D Mouse (Score:1)
Where's the Strafe ? (Score:1)
Story is a DUB (Score:1)
Come on this is 2 years old allready
Color me intrigued (Score:2)