The end of the mouse

Johnimus Prime · Post by **Johnimus Prime** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:23 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7508842.stm

Seems they have forgotten the multitude of gamers for whom the mouse is still by far the best control method!

Not that I am averse to alternative control methods - but it will probbably be some time before they create something sensitive and accurate enough for FPS. I have read a few reviews of a handheld 'gun' that is attached to a sort of mouse that you move around, but its just not reliable enough according to the reviews.

Any thoughts?

King Cow · Post by **King Cow** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:36 am

The mouse is dead, LONG LIVE THE MOUSE!

I don't see anything taking over just yet to be honest. Just look at all the Nintendo, Xbox , playstation controllers there has been over the years, and still none are as good as the mouse for rts fps etc...

BBloke · Post by **BBloke** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:49 pm

I skimmed the article and lost interest. Got a lot on but my thoughts are that the mouse will never disappear. As some of you know I'm a flight simmer (although not so much at the moment - spend most my free time on festers

) and everything has it's place at a certain point in time.

I have 2 joysticks. One of them with throttle and loads of buttons and the other is an FFB stick. I also have TrackIR which uses infrared to track my head movements and then translates them to my virtual head in the cockpit so I can look around the sky. The joysticks are suppose to stop me touching my keyboard and the TIR is suppose to stop me using my mouse. Neither do this 100%. I have to at some point press a key on my keyboard or use my mouse to move my virtual map to locate landscape details for navigation.

The items:

TIR

X45 Flight Stick

Evo Force

Mouse

I've been reading touchscreens are on the up but whenever I touch the screen it drives me nuts. Bloody pesky finger prints all over the place and I start nudging the monitor further and further back toward the chasm that is the drop to the ground from my desk.

oldmeme · Post by **oldmeme** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:39 am

The day when the majority use a Wii Remote to play an FPS on a PC is the day I die.

cockijoe · Post by **cockijoe** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:44 pm

Whats the hell is the 1st ic a new welders mask ? lol never seen that

Del · Post by **Del** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:51 pm

trackir. slap it on top of your monitor and wear a silly hat. it'll track your headmovements and translate them into ingame movements. A toy I thought about getting myself, for looking about the virtual racing cars, but for me it'd be very much a toy

http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/

cockijoe · Post by **cockijoe** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:32 pm

ho never seen that before ...just an after thought if jase wore a jaw one he could play olympic games and run the 100 meters in 5 seconds

lol

Johnimus Prime · Post by **Johnimus Prime** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:27 am

cockijoe wrote:ho never seen that before ...just an after thought if jase wore a jaw one he could play olympic games and run the 100 meters in 5 seconds lol

Haha maybe so - but I think he would get disqualified for aimlessly meandering

baggheed · Post by **baggheed** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:23 pm

loitering with intent lol and imagine him with a fkn gun lmao

zombie lou · Post by **zombie lou** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:08 am

that head tracker is cool.

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