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We just caught wind of a new kind of 3D-Interface Controller, the Axsotic 3D Spherical Mouse, which allows a user to rotate objects in modelspace as though you were holding them, while drawing and clicking with your other, an experience likened by the designers to working on a 3D tablet. In the video above, the mouse is demonstrated in a character design scenario.
We'd love to hear your initial thoughts. Would this change the way you work for the better? Let us know in the comments.
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Working Better in 3D? The New Axsotic Spheric Mouse
@ Joel, the video shows a left handed working with it. but this device is universal for left or right handed. no matter.
@m, actually yes, that would be the ultimate device!
@Ryan, we have had long time test with it. you will not get problems with your hand. because you use all possible movements your hand can do. because its not a static position there is not such a pain as working hours with a mouse.
the main different to a space navigator is, that you have a absolute and very precise control on the thing you do second most while working as an artist. this is rotating your objects. there has been a test with a early prototype at the bauhaus-univeristy on 3d work environment and its up to 70 % faster than a working with a mouse and up to 30% faster than working with a space navigator.
We have to get devices out as fast as possible so all of you can test it for your own workflow.
I would also be interested in how comfortable this is to use over long periods of time as it appears to force the hand into a specific shape to control it.
nice innovation.
As was mentioned before, that only gives you three degrees of rotational control. The 3DConnexion/Logitech Space Pilot/Navigator/etc. controllers give you those three degrees of rotational control plus three degrees of translational control too.
But certainly, there's a difference between using this and the 3DConnexion stuff- very similar to the difference between using a mouse and a pointing stick. One's a motion based control vs the other with is a force based control.
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