http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/ Engadget Comments for Novint Falcon gets reviewed: undoubtedly cool, unlikely to sell http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/
1. If I want to own a Ferrari someday, why wouldn't I want to test drive it with a virtual reality device?

2. Not everyone who enjoys driving Ferraris in games can someday afford one.]]>Dec 7th 2007 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/
I was navigating through a 2d rat-maze with it, and I could feel the walls with my finger as i banged up against walls.

It is a delicate machine, because the strength of my finger can easily overpower this device, but it was pretty cool nontheless. ]]>Dec 7th 2007 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 7th 2007 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/
Walmart don't run no R&D they just beat on little asian kids to make their products. STFU cheapass.]]>Dec 7th 2007 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Or the same for a movie you watch once, maybe twice.
To me it makes somehow more sense to spend a bit on (complex) hardware, assuming there is support for it of course.
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The lack of software support (popular games) is probably going to bury them. However, they are working toward a World of Warcraft interface. If that is successful and they lower the price, it could be a winner.]]>Dec 8th 2007 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/
This needs to be picked up by medical schools, dentistry schools, chiropractic schools, massage therapist schools, anything related to rehabilitative practice even, focusing on the gaming industry gives them the exposure to tech minded people who may in turn envision uses in other sectors.

Bill Anderson is the only one on their management page that did medical simulation tools, and he's the Director of Game Development :]

Trauma Centre: New Blood could enjoy more platforms than just the Wii at the moment]]>Dec 9th 2007 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/
Big thing missing is the support of a few other popular games...Second Life support alone would probably sell a couple truckloads of these. Half those folks will pay actual money for virtual crap, a couple hundred bucks so you can "feel" the (oft disturbing) environment might seem reasonable compared to other things folks will buy.

]]>Dec 10th 2007 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/Dec 20th 2007 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/the review states that he doesn't feel it will sell well because of a lack of software support (and we've heard this before, which is a fair comment). However, our software development model is coming together quite well - people haven't seen the results yet, but we have many releases coming up in the next two months. We've been adding many games to our line-up over the past year, and have been increasing the size of the game acquisitions and the publishers we're working with. Check out
http://home.novint.com/games/release_schedule.php
We have games not on that list we haven't announced yet, and are in discussions with some of the bigger publishers on multi-game deals. I'm confident about where we are going on software - we can create amazing games for pennies on the dollar compared to what it costs other companies (i.e. by acquiring the 3D touch rights to a game, and then incorporating touch into those existing games).

one other thought to consider. The Falcon doesn't represent a single device that might fail or succeed in my opinion. Rather, it represents a big step forward in a field of computing that has thousands of researchers across the world. Whether Novint is ultimately successful or not (of course we believe we will be), haptics and 3D touch is going to be a huge field in computing.

Thx]]>Dec 10th 2007 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/07/novint-falcon-gets-reviewed-undoubtedly-cool-unlikely-to-sell/
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