Introducing the Novint Falcon

Posted By: Tina Wood | Apr 5th, 2007 @ 1:36 PM

The Game Developers Conference of 2007 was filled with cool new peripherals and demos. This one I found particularly interesting. It's a company called Novint and The award-winning Novint Falcon is the first controller that makes high-fidelity interactive three dimensional touch possible and practical for consumer computing applications. Being introduced initially as a PC game controller, the Falcon is, in essence, a small robot which lets users feel weight, shape, texture, dimension, dynamics and force effects when playing enabled games.

It's a bit of learning curve for shooting and such but I give you a demo of it while playing through a little known game titled Half Life 2.

Tags: GDC, peripherals, San Francisco, video games

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Arztek

The Novint Falcon was my personal favorite gadget from E306. Laura covered it whilst you sought a “greasy” cheeseburger. Smiley

I've been keeping up with it and have seriously considered ordering one. It's more than worth the price at this point. The only downside is I don't game on my computer anymore, so it would be a waste of money. I'm still debating the issue with myself. I suppose if I could use it with FSX and Battlefield 2 then I'll break down and buy it. It's truly a remarkable piece of equipment, and it almost comes across with a personality of its own. I half expect that blue sensor light to start glowing red and talk to me. Spooky, eh?

Great segment. I love it when you actually go hands on and try out the hardware. I'm also obliged to mention how much I like that dress again. Wink

linkyshinks

I would love to be able to play Crysis using this. I also remember Laura featuring this earlier and thinking it was a great product then i would love to own one, i think i may have to get one to aid my G15 keyboard, i think this price is reasonable for what it is, hopefully game developers will design games with this product in mind. LS

djscratchex

Would love to try this w/ Quake Wars once it's released.

Shiny

Awesome concept but under extended use i'd worry about fatigue or RSI.
The problems with some of these types of interfaces/controllers is that they may seem fantastic and work well with the intended applications for short durations but most people certainly will have problems when they can't rest their arm while using it.

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