The Novint Falcon is an entirely new type of game controller. Replacing your mouse or joystick, the Falcon is, essentially, a small robot that lets you experience true virtual touch unlike any controller in history. The Novint Falcon lets you control a game in three dimensions, and also lets you feel high-fidelity three-dimensional force feedback. The Falcon controller moves right and left, forwards and backwards, like a mouse, but also moves up and down. When you hold the Falcon's detachable Grip and move your cursor to interact with a virtual object, environment, or character, motors in the device turn on and are updated approximately 1000 times a second, letting you feel texture, shape, weight, dimension, and dynamics. The Falcon lets you control and interact with games in a more realistic way, allowing you to develop real physical skill and muscle memory, adding a new dimension to gaming. The award-winning Novint Falcon makes virtual items and experiences feel real. 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. Unit Size - 9 x 9 x 9 Weight - 6 lbs
ReadmoreTechnical Details
- 3D Touch Workspace - 4 x 4 x 4
- Force Capabilities - > 2 lbs
- Position Resolution - 400 dpi
- Package includes - Novint Falcon Game Controller, Standard Novint Falcon Grip, USB cable, Newton's Monkey Business Game Pack
- Minimum System Requirements - 1.0 GHz Processor,OS - Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, Graphic card
The Falcon itself works as advertised. Game support is generally poor, though they recently got Orange Box from Valve to use the controller so maybe that is the start of good things.
If you live in New York they won't ship their pistol grip accessory to you. Without that the Falcon loses most of its appeal. I thought their weird default ball controller would cut it but I was wrong. The pistol grip bundle is a must to get this to be worth it!
Even outside New York, you cannot purchase the pistol grip by itself, though Novint pretends you can. I've had mine for over 4 months and that accessory hasn't been in stock once! I called Novint and they politely told me I'm SOL. Grips are for bundles only I guess.
Conclusion: Good product, very poor post-purchase experience, and if in New York make sure to ship to a friend in NJ or something!......
How exited were you when you first felt the rumble pack on Nintendo 64? The ability to feel when I crashed was a welcome addition to my gaming experience. Heres where the falcon comes in. It is a 3d mouse that can be moved up and down, left and right, and even in and out. It can also provide feedback in any direction to simulate gun recoil or to let you know what side a zombie is hitting you from.
All of this sounds very cool in theory. Well here are the cons. GAME SUPPORT IS HORRIBLE. There has been the same list of games since I bought the thing 6 months ago. Novint claims to be releasing a generic driver that will work with all games. That's basically admitting that no falcon specific features will be incorporated into games in the future. What they will try to sell you are games that were designed by them for ten dollars a piece. That's like paying $10 for one game on Wii sports.
Getting parts has been a journey. The Novint website has been out of the pistol grip for months now and when I asked if they could sell me a grip out of the bundles(that include the falcon and the grip) I was told that wasn't possible. This really makes me wonder about getting replacement parts if something inside the falcon ever needs to be replaced.......
I don't have much to say other than this product is amazing. I took me a week to decide to make this purchase. Don't wait that long, buy it now so you can start playing soon. You need to feel this thing it's great.......
Fun product but more of a novelty item to add a different twist to gaming. I don't see it replacing the standard FPS controls anytime soon.......
The Falcon can not be explained in words, you need to try it to believe it. The experience is absolutely amazing and mind-blowing. All of the sudden every game becomes 10 times better because instead of pushing buttons and watching the action you become part of the action and can feel everything that is going on. Once you played a game with the Falcon you will never go back, it would be like going back to black and white TV or silent movies. Novint offers a 30 day money back guarantee, so you have nothing to loose: Go ahead and buy your Falcon today, you will not regret it!
Also check out their homepage www.novint.com, look at the videos and the media coverage, very impressive! And don't forget, make yourself happy and buy a Falcon! ......
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