Re: input devices

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From: Jason Daly (jdaly++at++ist.ucf.edu)
Date: 06/02/2000 08:43:51


On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 RJCODER1++at++aol.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for information regarding three dimensional tracking devices for
> my CAD-based VR application. I am familiar with Ascension magnetic tracking
> devices but I'm looking for something referred to as a flying mouse. Can
> anybody give me a suggestion for a company which provides such a device? It
> would be shaped like a joystick handle perhaps and have position/orientation
> tracking and a few buttons.
>

Ascension makes a 6 DOF mouse as an option for their Flock Of Birds and
MotionStar systems. I've never seen it, so I don't know what it's shaped
like, but it's mentioned in the manuals I have. It measures
position/orientation and it has three buttons.

--"J"

"I'm a castaway stranded in a desolate land,
 I can see the footprints in the virtual sand."
        --Neil Peart


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