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The World's First 3D Gaming Mouse

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-lurches-from-kentia-hall dept.

Jay Cruise writes "The world's first 3D gaming mouse was unveiled at the 2006 E3 Expo. The Game O' 3D gaming mouse offers PC gamers an 'unfair advantage' by allowing them to execute moves that are not possible using just a keyboard and a traditional 2D mouse. For example, in FPS, Game O' offers gamers a way to move forward, backwards, sideways, jump, crouch, pitch, yaw and roll without using the keyboard." For a more cynical opinion, I submit to you Ars Technica's take on the device. From that piece: "Your head just explodes. It's a terrible thing, and the nub on the side for some reason randomly makes you crouch. The man showing me the product was quick to add that you could set up the controls however you wanted. The software to do this even looked nice. This doesn't help the fact that playing a first person shooter with one hand is a bad idea. You'd still need a hand free to like, you know, reload? You could probably use those buttons, but in the demo they were set to look up and down. What if you're playing a game where you can peek around corners? You simply need the keyboard."

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  1. E4? by cryptoz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Electronic Entertainment Expo Expo?

  2. Wrong market perhaps? by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    This doesn't help the fact that playing a first person shooter with one one hand is a bad idea. You'd still need a hand free to like, you know, reload?

    Perhaps they need to find a market segment that has a need to have a free hand whilst using a computer?

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  3. So that's what we were doing wrong. by steveo777 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Makes sense to me... If only somebody had told me that my mouse didn't have any height. Then perhaps I wouldn't have been able to see the light reflect off it... Wonder why I kept loosing it.

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  4. Re:What??? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny
    Ok, pitch and yaw in an FPS i get...but wtf would 'roll' be?

    A buttered snack left over from breakfast, perfect for eating with your newly-free hand.

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  5. Re:World's first my.... by Eideewt · · Score: 2, Funny

    I never did buy one of those, and as a Descent player I've been kicking myself ever since.

  6. Euphemisms by Chris+Burke · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's the right market, you just need to rethink what "first person shooter" means.

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    1. Re:Euphemisms by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nice...

      My personal favourite is "browsing for left-handed websites", although I've hears a friend refer to it as "flogging on"...