> i'm saddened that this application relies on some crazy
> unconventional mouse that no person would ever have in their home.
hmmm... I didn't get the sense that the application necessarily *relied*
on it, but that the application could interpret input from alternate
controllers should you feel inclined to use one (or more). But then
again, I could be mistaken -- and that would be good news for Novint! ;)
[tangent]
One thing I found interesting is that on a USB-based DJ controller I
recently purchased, I can configure it so that it receives MIDI messages
that cause indicator lights to turn on.... this just got me thinking
about other physical (haptic?) controllers that not only feed controller
data *to* a target application, but also can respond to data coming
*from* the application. It's a little thing, I guess, and it's
definitely not anything new or groundbreaking, but it did give me a
little "aha!" since I had to set it up myself (I guess it's something
akin to the Haptic Pen project that was discussed a while back...).
[/tangent]
evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc.
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