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New Drivers Allow Players to "Feel" WoW

8th Jul 2008 02:56 PM GMT | Maticus | 6 comments

A company that specialises in 3D touch technology, Novint Technologies, have announced they are developing drivers for World of Warcarft. The drivers will be for use with the Falcon controller, which replaces the mouse or joystick in some games.

This "robot" as Novint call it, will allow players to feel game actions, such as casting spells and combat:

Novint plans to release the drivers for the award-winning Falcon game controller, which allows users to feel realistic game actions, objects, environments and force feedback, later this year. The drivers, built using WoW's LUA Scripting system, will let players feel their character's actions, spells, enemy attacks and other interactions dramatically enhancing the gaming experience. Novint is also integrating a unique interface in the game which gives players easy access to a customizable selection of spells and other game inventory items, allowing players to intuitively map up to 36 actions to Falcon movements with an in game User-Interface.


This comes at the modest price of around $189, but that's the bundle.

Watch the demo below:



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Comments

96 days ago
hmm looks too sci-fi to me. anyone here who actualy used this ?
96 days ago
It looks intresting, but im not sure how practical it will actually be to use.
96 days ago
if you ask me, computer games should just stick to keyboard controls. what developers don't understand about pc games is the concept of lag, making controllers horrible.
96 days ago
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I've seen videos from a convention in Sweden where they played FPS Games with it, Quake III I think it was, and the guy who played wasn't really that good but he said something about "Since I've played alot of FPS it takes some time to get used to but I still think it's inferior to Mouse & Keyboard".

I think it might be a fun toy for certain games, perhaps games even designed for this little thing and it's nice to have the option for using it in other games, but I doubt it'll work out well if they just try to standardize it on the market with exsisting games. But for that to happen someone have to take the first step and make a game for it. Just look at Nintendo Wii, I've always been curious on Wii, played some and I'm a Nintendo fan but it succeeded way more than I ever tought it would so if they play their cards right, maybe.
96 days ago
Seems to me this will kill your joints from using. With a mouse, you can rest your elbow and wrist comfortably, but with this you'll just end up hurting yourself.

Nostromo N-52 and Logitech G5 here. And I'm sticking to them.
95 days ago
Yup, my shoulder-muscles hurt just by looking at the video. Nintendo has executed this SO much better with their Wii controller. Companies should be focusing at integrating Wii controllers into PC Games, not invent some sub-standard "competition" of it.