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See the Evolution of Valve’s Steam Controller

• ekianjo 13y ago
  Funny how they actually went for the huge trackball design in the earlier iterations.
• cma 13y ago
  Excited to hear they will have a mode with trackballesque momentum. If the back paddles were also capacitive they could emulate the trackball through both sides design that sounded pretty great for continuous movement.
• snogglethorpe 13y ago
  As someone point out in the comments, repeatedly rubbing your fingertips across a surface, often at high speeds, for long periods of time does not sound very nice for your fingertips. [Controller usage in gaming is very different than typical app pointer control usage, so the use of touchpads for laptops isn't really comparable.] The handles that "curve up ... leading to greater accuracy" also sound very uncomfortable; I'm not sure "greater accuracy" is worth long-term discomfort ... I really wonder what their testing regime is like.