3D mice, or 6 DOF mice

lemur 6

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Anyone else have any experience with them? I work in design and basically eat, breathe, and poop CAD. I went into work the other day and I found this strange device sitting on my desk, no instruction, or notice, or anything on the device (I guess designers are supposed to be smart enough and curious enough to find out how to use it ourselves).

Well, sure enough curiosity got the better of me and I started playing around with it, and within 10 minutes I just couldn't let go. I was hooked. More research revealed that it's a pretty new device and was promo'ed at the 2007 CeBit convention (linkie here: ).

Dunno, but cool little gadgets like these give me warm fuzzy feelings inside.
 

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OH MY GOSH I want one!! I have never seen this before. But you're right, it would be so helpful with using Maya. My hand always gets tired rotating around etc... and it seems like this thing would be so much faster too


I bet they're really expensive though
 
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Originally Posted by extinctosaurus

I bet they're really expensive though
The one I use at work costs a fortune at ~$400. But they do have a very affordable one for like $60. I'm planning on getting one myself since I use solidworks and autocad at home and it would save soooo much time.
 
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