http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/gadgets_and_gaming/article4741397.ece

But how do you use the mouse at the same time?????

TBH, I don't really care about the force feedback. I am interested in anything that adds more analogue axes though, especially for first person shooter games.

Respectfully

krise madsen

Interesting, and I like the idea of being able to determine the direction of hits through the force-feedback's reaction.

I think the video shows the "mouse" movement kicks in at the margins of the device's movement, what they call the "edges" of the available movement for the three axis arms. I wonder if you can now simultaneously move while aiming off at a different angle (that's hard to do when your hand's planted on the desktop moving the mouse laterally)? This greater range of axis motion, which krise is talking about in his posting above, is a good point.

Thanks for the link Alexi, I'm going to save the novint address for future consideration (want to see more FPS games like COD4 & 5 enabled first).

You know was thinking, I wonder if you could mount that thing upside down underneath your desktop?

If you can reverse map the axis movement within the device's interface, then you could have that thing right between your legs. Seriously, if you could rest your arm on your leg and move that controller located just out front, that would great, like at an aircraft's joystick position.

Looks neat.

Looks good except for one thing; the Novint website gives the positional resolution as a mere 400 dpi, I couldn't go back to that low of a resolution for FPS games no matter how great the rest of the package is.

I want a pistol I can raise and aim directly at the screen - in this case, you hold it in your right hand and still have to use the screen for aiming with a crosshair - definitly better than a mouse, but not what I'd really want.

In fact, the ideal setup for me would be an analogue controller for the left hand, that lets you move forward, sideways and turn (small joystick with twist grip, for example), and a wireless "light gun" for the right to shoot at the screen directly.

Him, maybe add some kinda track IR device onto a plastic pistol.

Hehe, which is exactly the idea I spawned yesterday in the Arma forum.