The Felix was one of the devices NASA tested for use in zero-g, during development of the space station NASA conducted studies on the best input devices for zero-g. Mice obviously had problems due to their habit of floating around, but on top of that the ball based mice and trackballs really relied upon gravity to hold the balls against the sensors. They were all tested on a Mac Portable which had the best support for pointing devices at the time. This is the origin of the famous zero-g floppy videos kzitem.info/news/bejne/zYKlynamj2V_omU
@KevwePatani
10 ай бұрын
Hey it's Scott Manley! Fly Safe!
@MrSarcasm101
9 ай бұрын
Just make the mouse magnetic NASA. How hard is it?!
@jab9934
9 ай бұрын
Fly safe and always check yo staging!🚀 Ps: You should have talked with Elon about this before his first starship flight test😂
@CheradenZakalwe
9 ай бұрын
Hullo! From Fife.
@Adervish
9 ай бұрын
Thankyou scott
@jasonaviles192
10 ай бұрын
My uncle was one of the founding members of novint. My father was one of the software developers. I have about 10 falcons still laying around my house. What made the falcon special was that it was an affordable haptic feedback device. Their competition would cost 10s of thousands of dollars and needed a very large and heavy external control box. The device was very gimmicky for gaming and did have support for major titles at the time, but it never really caught on. The falcon was quite practical was in the medical field and novint developed custom grips and applications for medical companies to help train doctors for the use of certain medical devices in surgeries.
@johndough8115
10 ай бұрын
The main problem with it... is that you have to hold your arm up in the air, for extended periods of time.. and that would be extremely Fatiguing. I had written a comment on one of their Videos about this... and suggested they alter the design, so that your hand rested on top. Sort of like facing the falcon so that it was facing the ceiling.. but a little more streamlined than just that. Someone from the company replied with a very Harsh response.. as they clearly felt personally attacked, from pointing out the major design flaw (which was exactly the main reason why it wasnt heavily adopted). If the thing was mounted vertically.. you still would have all of the Axis control, and Force Feedback. However, you would have even Better physical control, and superior Comfort levels. It could have been both fantastic for Sculpting, as well as potentially used for Digital Artwork... such as simulating an Airbrush far more Realistically. Obviously, the cost might have had to rise a bit... but, when something is hands down Fantastic... people will pay for it, and it will continue to sell for a very long time... rather than quickly fading into obscurity. I feel that a vertical version of it, still has excellent potential, today.
@toxacid124
10 ай бұрын
As I was watching this video I thought exactly that, why isn't it vertical like car's gear sticks? @@johndough8115
@IrocZIV
10 ай бұрын
I feel like with VR this could be really neat.
@AmaraTheBarbarian
10 ай бұрын
@@toxacid124 speaking of that seems like a dope idea for a racing sim (or really anything else that simulates driving) if it was fully implemented. Imagine the hardware being able to automatically adjust the boundary for movement based on the kind of gearbox your car has, giving you force feedback for poorly timed shifts or grinding gears, or just clicking in to place unless a button is held to simulate and automatic. If oriented that way this could literally be the premium S tier racing sim shifter.
@Ronixon777
10 ай бұрын
This product was so ahead of its time.
@justinv3080
10 ай бұрын
Honestly I don't know man
@QuadroKiller
10 ай бұрын
Idk either man
@Ll3maFN
10 ай бұрын
I also don't know man
@Goofy-15
10 ай бұрын
We dont know
@JR_GAMING_
10 ай бұрын
Couldn’t know less
@icecreamdanwich
10 ай бұрын
Thought I knew. But nope
@tymo7777
10 ай бұрын
My grandfather had MS. He had very limited ability to do fine manipulation tasks with his fingers. But the easy ball mouse made it so he could learn to use a computer. My parents then got me one as a 4 year old. It was my first mouse! I grew up to have a career designing and programming computers. Pretty cool input device
@AvithOrtega
9 ай бұрын
Nice! Do you have a recommendation for a trackball mouse? If you are using one of course, I am looking for one that replaces my old Logitech Trackman Marble but looks like everybody have abandoned a designed that already worked perfectly
@Compgeek86
9 ай бұрын
I use a Kensington orbit with scroll ring, it works pretty well if you want the ball in the middle with a button under your thumb and under your fingers. My only issue is the scroll ring isn't "clicky" so some it can be hard to use in some games.
@agrisimfarming
6 ай бұрын
@@AvithOrtega I have the m570 and i like it, it's discontinued but logitech made a succesor called the m575.
@DanDanDoe
5 ай бұрын
@@AvithOrtegaI have a Logitech M575 as my main mouse for about three or four years now. I like it. Of course it took me a moment to get used to it, but it’s really comfortable and after getting used to it very intuitive. For shooter games I prefer a normal mouse, so I have one on my desk too, but for anything else the M575 works well for me.
@SANDVlCH
10 ай бұрын
I’ve seen the Novint used for a lot of surgeon training tools, especially with VR - and there’s even a mod to make it work with HL2, as well as a gun-handle shaped grip accessory. Surprised this didn’t make it to the video, it was a big part of recent editions
@madhaha
10 ай бұрын
I think Novint actually cut a deal with Valve to get first party support for several titles. I definitely remember that being the case for TF2 but I can't remember if HL2 needed modding or not.
@MDommell
10 ай бұрын
Yeah shocked they didn't show the HL2 integration, that was the best (well at least most interesting) part of the Falcon
@SquidHominid
10 ай бұрын
That isn't a mod, friend. Basically the entire Orange Box had native Novint Falcon support in-engine.
@bobbyboyderecords
9 ай бұрын
Not just a mod but a real release for it
@1049662
9 ай бұрын
Yeah I tried one at a science show demonstrating intubation training. My gamer sensitivity was complimented. 😂
@WittyDroog
10 ай бұрын
I remember using the Falcon in a demo at a trade show and that texture demo was genuinely as astounding as Linus was reacting. You REALLY feel the textures of the objects so the sandpaper felt gritty, the gooey felt goopy, etc. I was genuinely amazed at the time. Dunno if that effect translated to better control with modeling software but still cool tech
@alexisrenaudin1017
10 ай бұрын
Linus should've tryed Half Life 2 on it with the pistol grip, it feels so different
@AltonV
10 ай бұрын
I got to use two of them with pod racing in vr. It was pretty cool
@alexisrenaudin1017
10 ай бұрын
@@AltonV Now This ls Podracing
@wrt142
10 ай бұрын
I remember this yellow ball mouse being kinda sought after by people with disabilities. My neighbor had polio and she wasn't able to use things that required strong movement or things that required precise finger movements and these mice were an absolute game changer for her, (she also was an absolute RTS beast playing with them)
@ajbp95
10 ай бұрын
Was thinking that it probably would have been great for people with disabilities!
@Guardian_Arias
10 ай бұрын
Honestly, I saw the Ball Mouse and I thought of my disabled son. As I Type this, I think I can use an older optical mouse and then print a frame where I can use a larger ball rolling on a smaller ball which rides on the optical mouse to easily achieve a similar experience. If I were to use a single ball both X and Y axis would be inverted. Edit: Looks like there is a Big Track 2.0 meant for disabled children, its 100 bucks. I'd rather spend 20 bucks on a spool of filament. Time to start modeling.
@cubertmiso
10 ай бұрын
MS is doing a really good job with these helpful devices for the disabled people.
@mdzura117
10 ай бұрын
Can confirm my school in the 90s had these for all us wheelies
@Nicole-pt4bx
10 ай бұрын
@@Guardian_Arias that's SO COOL! Are you going to document the process?
@Logovanni
10 ай бұрын
I still have my Novint Falcon (with the pistol grip also). I used it in Maya and for Half Life 2. It’s was awesome. The coolest feeling was when you picked up a cinder block in HL2 to do the first little seesaw puzzle and you suddenly felt the weight of it in your hand. Like, just that thing was mind-blowing.
@alexdavis9324
10 ай бұрын
Does the pistol grip make it more or less fun than a light gun?
@Logovanni
10 ай бұрын
@@alexdavis9324 there’s a curve while you get used to it but once you do it was actually really fun. The grip is modeled after a Walther P99 series and it’s very ergonomic. As you can imagine, it sucks as a normal mouse. Even the ball grip isn’t great as a normal mouse. The whole thing isn’t really a normal mouse replacement, more an input device for modelling and shooters.
@Megaphonix
10 ай бұрын
it sort of reminds me of the custom Razer Hydra/Sixense integration Valve did in Portal 2. wacky input stuff in the time before 6DOF VR controllers took hold
@FlameSoulis
10 ай бұрын
@@MegaphonixI still have that. It is ironically the only way I can do anything decent with the Sniper in TF2. As for Portal 2, it's integrated so well, it's almost broken and lets you do some insane tricks.
@quaticus
10 ай бұрын
still pretty cutting edge even by todays standards
@madhaha
10 ай бұрын
Still have my Falcon and pistol grip. When it was relevant it really was fantastic: the range of sensations it could replicate and the amount of force it could put out was very impressive. Also kinda scary when it falls out of calibration! The support staff were great when the inevitable compatibility problems crept in. Every now and again I consider donating it to a cause with accessibility needs but given the current state of the company/software I feel like it's more of a liability. It's a shame the company tanked because the idea was fundamentally sound. Being able to spin on the spot like a joystick/gamepad player while having the fidelity of control of a mouse user was genuinely an advantage, even if you discount the fancy haptic feedback.
@PhilA.Minion
9 ай бұрын
Up till last year when they changed the anticheat and excluded ppjoy I used mine to play star citizen. It worked ok but took a lot of getting used to.
@cyborgrat
9 ай бұрын
A friend of mine had it, remember playing halflife with it (1 or 2 not sure) but was fun. Maybe ahead of its time. These days it would be prettt cool with gun force back
@FullMetalEngineer_
10 ай бұрын
We use a haptic wand similar to the Falcon in my research. It is used to simulate tactile information to improve control in certain applications. For example, in ultrasound, radiologists often feel around (or palpate) with the ultrasound probe. A haptic wand can be used to re-introduce this information when the probe is remotely controlled by a robot. This technology is being used to improve accessibility to healthcare when manpower is lacking.
@Derpuwolf
10 ай бұрын
8:01 “Maybe she was a little gripper back in the day” you can say that twice. 😂
@Underscore23
10 ай бұрын
I still have mine! I got it in a TF2 tournament. The Novint falcon did a tournament that it was pros (using the falcon) against Steam community members and our team won. EDIT: Should have done PORTAL, where you felt the weight of the cubes when lifting them. TF2 was widely supported too. It was really just very fun to use. I got the impression Valve was really helping with their open APIs
@Tophatguy_vr
10 ай бұрын
First
@bhupendragurram3026
10 ай бұрын
second
@ИльяВитцев
10 ай бұрын
Wow. They actually had support for this weird thing in Portal?
@marcfusch
10 ай бұрын
Do you still have the original dvd with some game demos? I have access to a unit but I'm really looking for the software
@xythrr
10 ай бұрын
Whaaat, that product was supported for that long? Are they still around doing stuff today?
@therussianbias3703
10 ай бұрын
honestly if a modern version of the novint falcon came out today for vr shooters i would GLADLY buy it. Imagine a force feedback/recoil system like the one that has been used in guns like the vector but in a full sized and weighted accessory that you can play simulators with
@dongleseon8785
9 ай бұрын
Now imagine sword fighting with that. No more swinging in the air.
@4RILDIGITAL
10 ай бұрын
I didn't even know these weird "mouse"s existed. And they are expensive too.
@TheTechDweller
10 ай бұрын
I remember seeing videos of the falcon and being super interested to try it. I loved the idea of force feedback for an FPS, it's honestly something I'm waiting for in the VR space. Proper feeling of weight and texture.
@AltonV
10 ай бұрын
I got to use two of them with pod racing in vr. It was pretty cool
@Chaosghoul
10 ай бұрын
Stuff like the novint falcon is actually still in use in a lot of dental practices that are scanning and adjusting models for 3D printing
@silentvoidx9267
10 ай бұрын
I remember the Novint Falcon and how you could feel the weight of objects in hl2 when you use the gravity gun
@osamabinlaggin69
10 ай бұрын
as a major half life fan that is freaking sick
@leleudk
10 ай бұрын
I still have my Novint Falcon with a pistol grip. It was so nice to use for Portal, and fun to use in CS Source, and set force feedback to 100%.. that big LMG shaked the entire table with ease! :P Linus, hit me up if you want to try it out with a pistol grip, it changes alot.
@Gunbudder
10 ай бұрын
the pistol grip was unreal. i got to try the prototype for it when they were demoing it. i wish i had the money to buy one at the time! i still think about getting one lol
@jozimastar95
7 ай бұрын
Are you sure this video is in 2024 and not 2004?
@maxmouse713
10 ай бұрын
Words cannot express how sad I am that the Novint Falcon never caught on in the mainstream, because that looks both awesome and useful. I can only wonder how it would improve with modern tech including materials and production methods.
@OtherTheDave
9 ай бұрын
Yeah, several times I almost bought one, and kinda wish I had.
@Thailerr
9 ай бұрын
Honestly! It does seem like it would add an extra layer of depth to your thinking if you were designing something. Feeling like your manipulating the structure sounds incredibly useful in certain worksets
@sirty2
9 ай бұрын
Left for Dead owned with the Novint Falcon. I believe L4D2 had support for a hot minute and they patched it out for some reason. After the lack of support in Source games (I believe Valve was starting down their own hardware line at that point...) it crashed and burned. Sucked because the novint with the gun stock and a pair of VR goggles would own some VR.
@tjncooke
9 ай бұрын
I have the LE sitting in my attic, basically new in box. What a time...
@UnAngel
10 ай бұрын
I used my Novint Falcon to play through the entire Penumbra trilogy and it was honestly one of the coolest gaming experiences I've ever had. Every item had weight, picking up and manipulating things was really immersive, and the difficulties of the controller only heightened the tension of the game. Loved it. Put it away after that and haven't touched it since 😂
@k-runt
3 ай бұрын
I just remember poking the mattress in the beginning of Black Plague and running my hand along the concrete walls, what a surreal experience the falcon was
10 ай бұрын
Okay, the Novit Falcon sure was an insane device.
@zakariaalkishik
10 ай бұрын
Whoever edited this video in particular, deserves a promotion. Absolute genius.
@Tophatguy_vr
10 ай бұрын
First 9:42
@ThyCorruptor
10 ай бұрын
The shooter was at peak performance for this one too. Great overhead shots when needed, and the editor did so going cutting from recording the screen to a actual screen record in software without even noticing trasnitions. Definitely a great tech video. with cool novelty stuff . Also great video concept. Very classic LTT
@duchieu235
10 ай бұрын
stop complimenting your own work, zhang
@ulize.
10 ай бұрын
@@ThyCorruptorstill the editor, each camera is always recording, the editor chooses which shot to use
@n646n
10 ай бұрын
Unlike Linus with Billet.
@ayanzafar016
10 ай бұрын
10:09 Linus Bed Tips
@azerik92
10 ай бұрын
We finally found what they used to record the Counter Strike announcer.
@henrikbengtsson6625
10 ай бұрын
19:56 yoooo, my mind is corrupted..
@madhouse2309
Ай бұрын
Yep, also me
@kidsmack1012
10 ай бұрын
8:00 so was your mom.
@xiChann
10 ай бұрын
😂😂caught that too
@charlesw7397
10 ай бұрын
The Falcon actually looks awesome. The fact that they had support for some of my favorite games like TF2 and Portal makes me wanna pick one up lol
@jorisbonson386
10 ай бұрын
It is awesome, I still owned one having done so since release.
@fatih-34Gl3
10 ай бұрын
16:08 When I was a kid, I used to go to the settings in bf2 and see that thing with the m1911 and say what the fuck is this?
@ahmedp8009
10 ай бұрын
Novint Falcon is honestly a cool idea, if only they made it more ergonomic.
@HecticGlenn
10 ай бұрын
I ran a Valve fansite for a number of years and worked with Novint to promote the falcon when Valve started helping them by supporting in their main games like Half-life, Portal & TF2. TF2 the Falcon was fantastic - I don't know if I would really think of it as just a gaming mouse given it has that Z axis style input too, it creates it's own category. I recall they made generic input drivers for most FPS's , it was really fun in things like Penumbra and you could feel different textures, open / close drawers etc. The best addition was the gun-grip which made it much more fun to use. I'm not sure if it still works but one of my best experiences was using it in TF2 with the Sniper's bow (Huntsman), you got the full pullback and release of the bow which felt super satisfying. I still have mine somewhere, sadly Novint didn't last long but the team were amazing to work with and our community loved their innovation, as did Valve and no doubt inspired other hardware input devices Valve have gone on to produce!
@201231
10 ай бұрын
It stills works im using w10 a quest 2 and the novint falcon with gun grip and a 3d fps vest
@Walker_96365
10 ай бұрын
0:35 That being pixelated makes it so much worse
@stofio
10 ай бұрын
I remember using my novint falcon with those nvidia 3d vision glasses back in the day. All dead tech now but playing portal with it truly felt like the future and it was incredible how immersive it was especially at the time.
@GreenLantern814
10 ай бұрын
Oh wow, 3D and force feedback in Portal must have been a trip. With as many mentions as the Novint is getting, hopefully they'll revisit it.
@greg_one_izm
10 ай бұрын
This sounds like something out of an 80's sci-fi, so freakin cool
@IrishLuckyy
10 ай бұрын
My normal DPI on my mouse for gaming and for just general browsing is 14800… I felt attacked at 14:10 lol
@jmesen180
10 ай бұрын
14800... Man, that's a lot, I usully use a DPI of 8000 for everything, plus Windows sensivity at max, and that's normal for me, when I move the mouse it hardly looks like moving, but those are statue movements right away
@voyagerrock1137
4 ай бұрын
i'm at 800... how???
@prich0382
4 ай бұрын
But what's your pixels per inch of movement?
@Randomninja47
10 ай бұрын
I would love to try that Falcon texture demo. Looks fascinating.
@Claymore729
10 ай бұрын
Holy shit I remember the Falcon! We had it on display when I worked at Micro Center about fifteen years ago. We had the demo software up and running where you could push it through molasses or around a ball, things like that, and the motors would push back against the arms as you manipulated it through space. God damn, this takes me back. The Novint Falcon just sort of disappeared off the face of the planet.
@dann123123123
10 ай бұрын
man i remember looking at the novint falcon when i was a kid it sounded so damn cool to play fps games with lmao
@sirforcer
10 ай бұрын
That last 3d mouse made me think of the 3d connexion space mouse, which is still produced to this day. The space mouse is more for navigating 3d scenes and then paired with a normal mouse for interacting with the scene, but I wonder how well it would work in conjunction with the 3d mouse shown here.
@CaptainGockblock
10 ай бұрын
I’ve used both, the space mouse way more than the novint. My university actually had a few in labs for talking about stresses in members of a truss structure. The space mouse already has 6dof which is all you need to successfully navigate 3d space. I think they would be a bit pointless together, unless you had some sort of voxel/volumetric display and were absolutely hell bent on using it despite how challenging/pointless it might be.
@sirforcer
10 ай бұрын
@@CaptainGockblock right, it's pointless, but half the fun of this channel is watching Linus struggle with pointless tech.
@bbggakkba
10 ай бұрын
I can't see this even competing with how useful my space mouse is for CAD work. It just looks so awkward to use for extended periods
@ssdrbx6180
10 ай бұрын
if someone wonders can you use the 3d mouse for games, apparently kerbal space program 1 still have support for it to this day/last version
@SrinpytheMusicalTechSquirrel
10 ай бұрын
2:46 XBox Live 2006 Voice Lobbies be like:
@FP_cool
10 ай бұрын
:D
@Larry
10 ай бұрын
I've managed to ammass three Novint Falcon's over the years, they are impressive. I've also got the gun attachment for it which was designed for Half-Life 2. Feel the weight of the guns and kickback Etc.
@Villanousfats1
10 ай бұрын
Years ago I did a day at a forensic anthropology lab where a PhD student was using something like the Novint Falcon to design a computerised cadaver hand with realistic resistance depending on tissue, tendon, bone etc for medical training. There was/is a lack of cadavers for students to train on, so a detailed computer model with a 3d force feedback device and a scalpel like grip would give them a chance to train freely without using up a finite learning resource.
@ObiCalmYouKnowMe
10 ай бұрын
I'm intrigued with the products but even more intrigued by the inflation comparisons. Mind-blowing!
@dragon2knight
10 ай бұрын
This was a real blast from the past!! I owned the Fellows mouse pen...unfortunately, lol. It was terrible and pretty useless....more of these please ❤
@Lorecastapendragon
10 ай бұрын
@19:48 "ewww, it's like putting your hand in the shmoo", I laughed way too hard at that, shmoo hahahaha
@Lorecastapendragon
10 ай бұрын
someone needs to gif this, its meme level funny
@Shikaku2
9 ай бұрын
21:54 you would have to pause it after he hit the ball but there was so much spin on the ball and there's wind graphics that show this that it landed and changed angle that much
@LPR44
10 ай бұрын
I grew up using my mouse in cramped spaces and developed a claw grip where I only need to move the mouse 1 inch to move from one corner to the other with a 1440p resolution. Those miniature ones would've been right up my alley. And yeah, for this type of grip I need my elbow to be lower than my wrist or it is uncomfortable. I've tried several times now to use lower DPIs and move my whole arm but just can't get used to it.
@joeltaylor7741
10 ай бұрын
I miss Emily, she'd have been great for this video!
@scrub_jay
9 ай бұрын
I love watching Linus try to guess the original MSRP of old weird products. He's actually kinda good at it lol. A Price Is Right style video would be fun to watch I think
@SIGNALacquired
10 ай бұрын
at 5:08 Linus plays with his big ball.
@MetalY2K
10 ай бұрын
3:52 Not 48 hours ago I suggested someone get their kid Freddy Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds to play as an introduction to PCs and gaming, no way, what are the odds!?
@TrangleC
10 ай бұрын
I liked using trackballs for many years. In some games they were superior because they combined the range of motion of a joystick with the precision of a mouse. Playing games like "TIE Fighter" was great with a trackball. You could just give the ball a good spin when you wanted to do large changes of course and still have pin-point precision as soon as you put your thumb on the ball again. I would still use trackballs today if it wouldn't have become so hard to find a proper one.
@00Clive00
10 ай бұрын
I miss removing the fluff from the ball compartment. Now the only joy in the world I have is bellybutton fluff 🤨
@FlyingCIRCU175
10 ай бұрын
I play Armored Core 6 on trackball and it’s oddly effective. Not quite HOTAS or stick-level but still cool.
@tebla2074
10 ай бұрын
my daily driver is a kensington expert mouse, love it!
@TrangleC
10 ай бұрын
@@00Clive00 Buy cheap socks and spend 10 minutes every day pulling the lint out from under your toenails.
@girrrrrrr2
10 ай бұрын
check out aball and ploopy
@PaulMiles1
10 ай бұрын
The Easy Ball reminds me of those adaptive Xbox controllers we started seeing a couple years ago. The ones with the oversized buttons that are designed for people with fine motor skill deficiencies. I work with a lot of kids with developmental delays and fine motor skill issues. I know it's a super niche user base. But I think it would be awesome if LTT would spend some time reviewing and discussing adaptive controllers and adaptive access tech.
@MrFaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
10 ай бұрын
18:33 glad to see big papa supporting his little boy
@claudiugardelli6302
9 ай бұрын
0:58 he already found a replacement for the trans… same shape and all….
@HomelessSoldierMan
Ай бұрын
Dude you got a crush on her? You comment on multiple videos about her lmao
@the_spikerman3764
10 ай бұрын
You need to send this all to LGR or at least do a collab.
@DozIT
10 ай бұрын
I really like the MX Vertical, it is not the most precise - but precise enough for things like photoshop, RTS games, etc. and fixed an issue where my hand was getting sore after a few days of “crunch time” to finish a project
@HeisenbergFam
10 ай бұрын
Linus will not stop until he finds the greatest quirks of technology and I love it
@Johnny555_Arcaea_charter
10 ай бұрын
here he is bois
@bhupendragurram3026
10 ай бұрын
bro post a video also second herebeforebotscame
@himselfe
10 ай бұрын
Honestly the Novint Falcon was a good idea, perhaps not the best execution, but still something that has real world uses.
@ClangandChiill
10 ай бұрын
14:05 😬 I'm the person who uses a high DPI modern mouse, I have about 2" of travel of my mouse to span the entire width of my 2560px display. I find precise small movements to be more comfortable than moving my whole arm and mouse. I'll probably regret it when I'm 50 and riddled with arthritis tho lol
@ShadowofManda
10 ай бұрын
As someone who uses really high DPI settings on my mice (currently 4750 on a 4k+1080p display set up), the two mice that are mapped to have the whole screen in just a couple inches sound quite usable lol My DPI shift button drops to 600 DPI for fine control, like sniping in games, but is otherwise unused. I can't stand needing to constantly lift and reposition the mouse to get across my screen or to spin around in a game.The biggest issue is that sometimes the requisite force to overcome surface friction has me overshoot a nearby target point, but it is easily compensated for after being used to it for so long
@Uzui_Tengen
10 ай бұрын
Can't wait to put these in my gaming setup
@OrionKaelinClips
10 ай бұрын
The Novint Falcon might be interesting for space sim spaceship translation movement like Star Citizen
@bootchoo96
10 ай бұрын
Looks like the Esperia Talon pilot controls!
@abe3002
10 ай бұрын
The Novint could work really well as a FFB device for sim racing for gear shifting to add a extra dimension to the shifting
@WidgyAinz
10 ай бұрын
3:44 Holy shit it's Chucky!
@WVURxMan
10 ай бұрын
The Microsoft Easy Ball would actually be incredible for MAME emulation in games like Super Monkey Ball or Golden Tee.
@heretikmusic7054
10 ай бұрын
I love my Falcon! I think it's still in storage somewhere. I spent a lot of time making game scripts for it with F-Gen, in particular I got some copies of oldschool games like quake and doom working with it. The Falcon was a lot of fun! Playing TF2 with it was also a blast, while it took a lot of practice to get used to, using it for games felt like getting a taste of the future. Like Linus shows, the ice ball really did feel slippery! I kinda hope we get an exo-arm like they were working on. It'd be cool to see that for VR.
@RunsWithKniefs
10 ай бұрын
I had some friends who bought Novint Falcons with the pistol grip for FPS games. The force feedback wasn't very strong so they both sold em for like 2x the msrp. (Also at the time they sold it, it was the advent of VR so people made attachments to mount "personal health" toys so the market demand for them also spiked)
@Pussalia
10 ай бұрын
Wait, wat?! So people were bolting fleshlights onto them? That's fantastic 😂
@201231
10 ай бұрын
Not true you can manually adjust the force feedback and break your wrist if set to high
@RunsWithKniefs
10 ай бұрын
Curious Would that have been an override or a driver setting? Cause of course you can just tell any motor to do what you want if you juice it, but the barrier of liability on manufacterer's part n such.
@kamiskub7409
10 ай бұрын
As a high DPI user - the Felix and Atom Mouse look like great ideas - especially compared to ball mouse.
@jonaszb7631
10 ай бұрын
I couldnt agree more. They may even have more range of motion than I need.
@Chipsaru
10 ай бұрын
I cannot comprehend how and why would you use high DPI in a day-to-day use scenario. I mean, how do you even select a single character in the text when your cursor jumps all around from a smallest movement with like 15000 DPI? I find it hard to use personally with anything higher than 1250 DPI.
@kamiskub7409
10 ай бұрын
@@Chipsaru I daily above 3500 DPI at 2560 pixel wide screen and despite working with less than 1 inch of space side to side I'm easily precise to edit text in Word at size 6.5 below which the indicator is too big and text unreadable without zooming.
@sakshatlakhiani847
10 ай бұрын
anyone else waiting for daily upoads? Linus really got me into a habit of watching him everyday; in a new video...
@jasonDudeGuy
10 ай бұрын
18:17 Can we make Linus the next Joker?
@williamscott8227
10 ай бұрын
I would love to see how the 3D force feedback thing plays Descent. Sliding 360 degrees was always tricky to set up with a keyboard and mouse. Not sure I ever really found good way. Friend on mine had a device called the Orb. It accounted well for movement on all 3 axis, though I was never proficient at using it, like my friend.
@scottdotjazzman
10 ай бұрын
Yeah that would be interesting. I found two axes via keyboard to be enough for most gameplay, but if you're really clever you can make use of a Bluetooth receiver and PS3 controller. Lots of fun!
@MrBardofdoom
10 ай бұрын
i feel like a lot of these could be used as adaptive controllers. its super cool to see all the different ideas people tried
@Bry.89
10 ай бұрын
Whatever happened to Emily? You don't really see them on here anymore since they transitioned.. do they still work at LTT?
@KimboKG14
9 ай бұрын
5:35 as a high functioning podhead I know that face
@G.A.N.
10 ай бұрын
Call me crazy but that MousePenPro sounds like a very cool idea for today's optical mouses. Just replace the ball with optic lazer and have yourself a Cheap digital pen that people could use in offices to sign up documents, highlight things on screen during presentation, make scrap notes etc And yeah i bet there are devices like that since ages or people just can use those Special screens instead with pressure pens, But still - such Optical laser MousePen as an cheap USB device lying around your monitor in case you really need it Sounds like as good idea as all those cheap products in markets right next to same shelf where USB fans are.
@t2wave
10 ай бұрын
I have two Novint Falcons. It is still my favorite mouse alternative for gaming when there is haptic feedback. TF2 was insane when you could feel the direction the bullets were coming from or if you bumped into a cloaked Spy.
@mysterypasta7245
10 ай бұрын
Linus isn’t pregnant but he never fails to deliver us videos.
@fireram360
10 ай бұрын
Lmao 😂
@EmmanuelFletcher21
10 ай бұрын
This video was hilarious. this reminds me of the older LTT videos because it’s just classic Linus ! keep it up
@PatrickRussellMusic
10 ай бұрын
I still have my Novint Falcon! I played a ton of TF2 with it. It's such a wild piece of kit.
@insanegammer109
10 ай бұрын
I actually have a mouse pen that I saved from being trashed by my parents 😂 I remember the Novent Falcon, they bragged about have support for the original Portal for the force feedback.
@skylark.kraken
10 ай бұрын
Yeah it's just like having a modern mouse and only moving it a tiny amount. I just measured it takes me 90mm (3.5") to go across 3 monitors, or 30mm 1 3/16" to go across 1 screen, I've given myself a 200mm wide area for my mouse. I have my DPI set to 1750
@ProtesttheAntagonist
10 ай бұрын
14:05 That's me... I just measured and my full left to right movement on a 34" ultrawide is about an inch. A modern mouse is more than accurate enough to get near pixel perfect accuracy with that little movement. High DPI usage isn't for everyone, but I've also never had an issue with my wrist or arm before.
@moduledd
22 күн бұрын
same lol my poor g102 is on like 3400 dpi
@Taizunx
10 ай бұрын
I remember Valve added support for Novint Falcon in Half-Life 2. Was hoping you'd be trying that with it... :(
@JTCF
10 ай бұрын
Huh, my current DPI settings result in kind of the same use of space as the felix -mouse- input device, But i'm sporting dual 1080p monitor setup. And I play osu! with that.
@LordSevla
10 ай бұрын
The first mouse makes your voice sounds like HALF LIFE 1 soldiers over the comm, lost opportunity to say FIRE IN THE HOLE hahaha
@lordcorgi6481
10 ай бұрын
Linus talking about having to barely move your mouse like it's a bad thing... I currently have my DPI set to 26,000 so I can move across 3 screens in about 2 inches 🤣
@Souchirouu
10 ай бұрын
It is genuinely impressive how much inflation we have gone through considering how hard technology adds to deflation. The last one was pretty cool though.. too bad those patents are likely still valid so no-one can make anything similar :| Could see some potential use for it in VR.
@stvsteve
10 ай бұрын
wrong game for the falcon 3D mouse. try half life 2. it has individual recoil on each gun. I played portal with it, it doesn't make gaming 'easier' but it definitely adds to the immersion.
@mineslime7766
10 ай бұрын
I just realized that I am using my mouse like one of these Felix or Atom things. I somehow got used to using my mouse on 6000dpi when I changed to two monitors and when I look at my desk I move it in a range like these products allowed. I can tell you that when you get used to it, there is no problem with acuracy xD
@humane123
10 ай бұрын
12:40 Seeing Vcop again is so nostalgic man. In my school days my father's office had a computer running Windows XP. I used to play Vcop and Roadrash on it. Those days were good.
@crimsonghoul8983
5 ай бұрын
Oh man. Yes. I had played Vcop in an arcade. That was a fun experience. Beats playing on a computer.
@absolutedisgrace
10 ай бұрын
I had the novint falcon, with pistol attachment, and actually had a huge amount of fun playing left 4 dead with it. Was it really hard to use? Yes. Was the force feedback really fun in an arcadey kinda way? Yes. Was it a waste of money, yeah kinda.
@EddieOtool
9 ай бұрын
Guys, when is it you open your museum of forgotten-and-vanished (for a reason) technologies??
@chriswilson8584
10 ай бұрын
The Easyball was used by a lot of children and adults living with disabilities. I know you weren’t trying to dunk on them but that was a huge advantage at the time when input was mostly limited to a mouse.
@bland9876
10 ай бұрын
I would have said "oh so much worse. It's not even in the same ballpark" if i was linus after the Jordan asked if it was better than Wii sports.
@BobertJoe
10 ай бұрын
As somebody who uses 6000 dpi mouse as my regular mouse control so that I dont have to move my mouse more than 2 inches to cross the whole screen, I see the appeal of many of these.
@Mmmm_tea
10 ай бұрын
The part in the old star trek movie where Scotty picks up the mouse and tries talking to the computer doesn't seem so crazy anymore
@westingtyler1
9 ай бұрын
15:40 I tried a Novint Falcon at a friend's house in like 2009. just like this. they just had the demo onscreen of a 3d ball, and you could change its texture and rub the mouse thing around it and feel its texture through the mouse. even a goo ball one you could push the mouse through, feeling friction like pushing through honey. it was unique and really cool tactile feedback. oh and a gun piece you could attach and fire, feeling really believable recoil. i wish linus had tried the gun attachment thing/demo, because it's pretty legit, too.
@MisterJack49
10 ай бұрын
In college we used two Falcons as throttle for a home made PodRacer Sim in Unity
@mrtycho26
7 ай бұрын
5:45 Did he just say that it either came with Freddie Fish... Or DIABLO?!
@bland9876
10 ай бұрын
I have a mouse pen thats waypr mpdern woth lazarrs and stuff no I don't use it. Yes it uas a sylus tip on the other side.
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