I heard a customer talking about this today, and I'm curious if anyone has used one...staff included (as I did find an old On The Spot video from a GDC with Ryan MacDonald talking about it).
I'm thinking about buying one, as it looks like it'd just be a great level of immersion:
Novint Falcon - Have Any Of You Used One?
I think they talked about it a bit on an episode of the Idle Thumbs podcast (or was it RebelFM? Think it was Idle Thumbs). General consensus is that it was cool.
i remember that device a while ago and i was wondering what ever became of it.
never seen it with a gun attachment before. fucking awesome.
combine this with head tracking and 3D. ZOMG
I have one, I bought it when they launched. It's pretty awesome but too expensive. It needs more support from developers and the modding community, until it gets that your better off saving your money quite frankly. I don't regret getting mine, but I cannot persuade others to get it when I get only a little use out of it myself.
It recently got Left 4 Dead support, which was something I was crying out for last year:
http://www.giantbomb.com/left-4-dead/61-20690/i-really-hope-this-game-gets-some-novi-falcon-support-eventually/35-19669/
That looked pretty cool but I don't think I'd wanna play for very long sessions with it. I like resting my hand on the mouse.
Thought I'd mention to the OP (and anyone else that is interested) that there will be a Black Friday sale for the Falcon, and it will bring one of the Pistol Grip Bundles down to only $99.99. Definitely a great price if you haven't picked one up already. More details are available here:
http://novintblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/black-friday-cyber-monday-sale.html
I already have one, and love it, but for anyone who was thinking about it but may have been short on cash, now is the time to pick one up =) I saw someone mention that they you can't use it in multiplayer, and that is completely false. I play DOD: Source and TF2 regularly with it, and I can still keep up with the best of them. Admittedly, it takes some time to get used to, but for the experience it provides, it's absolutely worth it.
Man, I don't know how I missed all the responses on this thread! LOL Well, I wish I had caught the Black Friday sale thing early enough, as I would've saved the money for one at that time.
Nonetheless, thanks to a busted head on my car amidst other things that my car has decided need to go wrong...I won't have the money for this in the immediate future. I still want one, though.
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