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Playing Quake with a real mouse (brainwindows.wordpress.com)
25 points by davi on Nov 7, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments



Finally an opponent whose Quake skills are on a par with my own. All your cheese belong to us, my little rat-tailed friend!!


Hopefully they can hook me up soon. I know my eyes and hands are a serious bottleneck on my sniping abilities. I would pay serious cash for a real way to play FPS games without using my keyboard and mouse. Even just replacing my mouse would be good enough.


I don't think you read the article. The mouse's brain was not controlling it's virtual navigation; that was controlled by how it moved on the ball. The brain comes into the discussion because they were able to see what parts were lighting up as a result of the navigation.


You really think you'd be better if you were jogging around on a gigantic trackball holding a light gun? Actually, now that I mention it, that would be an awesome game.


Hmm, I'm imagining a clockwork-orange-esque scene where I'm strapped into a helmet wired to my brain, running on a giant white ball, screaming into a room projecting a scene all around me.


I once borrowed a cool trackball from a friend, and I discovered that playing Doom with it was a cinch. I was whizzing around and blasting anything moving. It was incredible!


I don't know why you're getting modded down. That was an awesome story!

EDIT: Do I really have to put sarcasm tags in here?


I know why you're both getting modded down. It's because your comments, although not offensive, are just noise compared to the insightful posts we often find here.


I like to make 1 trivial comment for every 10 multi-point comments.




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