{"id":811,"date":"2006-03-28T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2006-03-31T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T16:55:27","slug":"the-novint-falcon-does-gdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"The Novint Falcon Does GDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pic\/novfalcon.jpg\" alt=\"novfalcon\" hspace=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2006\/03\/27\/seen-gdc-the-novint-falcon-haptic-interface-device\/\" target=\"blank\">Joystiq has an entry<\/a> showing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novint.com\/falcon.htm\" target=\"blank\">Novint Falcon haptic interface<\/a> in use at this year&#8217;s GDC (I mentioned the device last year if you recall &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=21\" target=\"blank\">reLink<\/a>). The comments might be worth watching.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon reminds me of Sensable&#8217;s devices (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensable.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>) so it&#8217;s interesting to see a convergence between a sculpting tool like what Sensable makes and a gaming\/interface device like the Falcon. All I can think now is, at under a $100, how ripe the Falcon will be for hacking. Combine that with an open source app like <a href=\"http:\/\/sharp3d.sourceforge.net\/mediawiki\/index.php\/Main_Page\" target=\"blank\">SharpConstruct<\/a> and Sensable might have some competition.<\/p>\n<p>The tools continue their downward migration.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesnews.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Blue&#8217;s News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>{Image Copyright\u00c2\u00a9 2006 Novint Technologies, Inc.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joystiq has an entry showing the Novint Falcon haptic interface in use at this year&#8217;s GDC (I mentioned the device last year if you recall &#8211; reLink). The comments might be worth watching. The Falcon reminds me of Sensable&#8217;s devices &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=811\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}