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Touch and Feel Game Objects with Novint Falcon Game Controller

Introducing an entirely new type of game controller, the Novint Falcon. The Novint Falcon replaces a standard mouse or joysitck in most gaming applications. Allowing you to experience a true virtual touch unlike any controller before.

Control your game in three dimensions with high-fidelity 3D force feedback. The Novint Falcon game controller moves right and left, forwards and backwards like any mouse, but also moves both up and down. Holding the Novint Falcon's detachable Grip to move your cursor allows you to interact with a virtual object, environment or character within a given game. Motors in the Falcon turn on and are updated about 1000 times a second to provide a sense of texture, shape, weight, dimension and dynamics within a virtual world. With the Novint Falcon, you will control and interact with games in a more realistic way, allowing you to develop real physical skill and muscle memory, adding an entirely new dimension to the gaming experience,

Novint is pioneering a new category of touch products for the consumer market, beginning with the release of the Falcon. In the past, the cost of 3D touch (haptic) hardware made the technology impractical for consumer applications, but the Falcon performs comparably to commercial devices that cost thousands of dollars, and is designed to be affordable for consumers.

Specifications:

3D Touch Workspace: 4" x 4" x 4"

Force Capabilities: > 2 lbs

Position Resolution: > 400 dpi

Quick Disconnect Handle: < 1 second change time

Communication Interface: USB 2.0

Size: 9" x 9" x 9"

Weight: 6 lbs

Power: 30 watts, 100V-240V,50Hz-60Hz

Minimum System Requirements (what you need to use the Novint Falcon):

Processor: 2.4 GHz Processor

OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista

Graphic card: 256Mb 3D hardware accelerated graphics card

DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c

Hard Drive: 1.5 GB free disk space

Memory: 1 GB RAM

Other: Broadband Internet Connection, USB 2.0 connection

Warranty:

12 months parts; 12 months labor

Due to the specialty nature of this product, no return is allowed. Defective exchanges are allowed within 15 days of delivery of the product, otherwise the manufacturers warranty will be utilized for any defects or potential repairs.

Our sense of touch connects us to the world around us and is an integral part of how we experience things, both physically and emotionally. In the past, games have incorporated increasingly sophisticated graphics and sound design, but none have added realistic touch, until now. The award-winning Novint Falcon makes virtual items and experiences feel real. Hold the Falcon's interchangeable Grip and feel a character's actions, instead of controlling a game with mouse-clicks and meters. Feel the weight of a basketball as you shoot it towards a hoop -- the momentum and impact as you swing a virtual golf club and strike a ball -- the recoil of a weapon - or the physical characteristics of virtual objects and environments.

In much the same way the introduction of audio changed motion pictures, Novint's technology transforms the user experience by adding realistic interactive 3D touch to gaming. While the concept of interactive touch in gaming is as unimaginable to most people as the idea of television was in the age of radio, we envision a not-too-distant future when it is as commonplace and ubiquitous as a mobile phone or a computer mouse.

Novint is pioneering a new category of touch products for the consumer market, beginning with the release of the Falcon. In the past, the cost of 3D touch (haptic) hardware made the technology impractical for consumer applications, but the Falcon performs comparably to commercial devices that cost thousands of dollars, and is designed to be affordable for consumers.