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Smarter Than the Average Joystick

Posted by Zonk on from the may-contain-vapourware dept.

Bored with regular controllers and sitting on your butt to game? jimm wrote to tell us about FPGameRunner, a treadmill that acts as a keyboard and mouse. Reenz wrote in about a lightsaber controller "in production" by GameTrak (the folks who brought us the award winning Cyberglove). And just think, you could use both in Jedi Academy. (warning: running on a treadmill with a lightsaber not recommended)

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  1. Re:lightsaber controller? by EddieBurkett · · Score: 4, Informative

    IIRC, the Onimusha controller was a regular controller that happened to be shaped into a sword. You held it (rather oddly) and you still had to press the usual buttons. It seems like it was intended more for display purposes than practicality. This lightsabre thing looks like its intended to be wielded like a virtual sword. It looks like you hold on to the "hilt", and either by tracking the movement of the cables, if not some camera, its able to interpret your motion. These products are vastly different.

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