Checking out the 2007 Novint Technologies Falcon on LGR Oddware! A combination of haptics and force feedback providing up to 2 pounds of force for everything from recoil, to impacts, to caressing balls. A fascinating input device that never got the userbase it arguably deserved.
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00:00 An Oddware Introduction
00:33 The Novint Falcon
01:45 Novint Technologies
03:48 What happened
06:22 Controller and grips
09:54 Setup and testing
11:39 Ball demo
15:28 Bundled minigames
24:49 F-Gen Manager
28:09 Half-Life 2
31:58 Portal
34:14 Scripts & Crysis 2
36:32 Mouse passthrough
38:11 It deserved better
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I actually owned one of these. It was not too bad but I still can feel how weird the movement felt. I ended up not really being able to reconcile how the controls felt cause this worked in like 2 games and I had to use my mouse like 95% of the time anyways. In the end it was more just like a thumb stick… Just on a larger scale. You had a limited range of motion and once you reached the end of it, you would just hold it there to keep turning… Slower than a mouse. Was nice for fine movement control over a small area.
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I actually owned one of these. It was not too bad but I still can feel how weird the movement felt. I ended up not really being able to reconcile how the controls felt cause this worked in like 2 games and I had to use my mouse like 95% of the time anyways. In the end it was more just like a thumb stick… Just on a larger scale. You had a limited range of motion and once you reached the end of it, you would just hold it there to keep turning… Slower than a mouse. Was nice for fine movement control over a small area.
I bought and still own a Razer Sixense Hydra. I would 100% have bought this thing had I owned a gaming PC back in 2007