Comments 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator 3D Mouse - Peripheral - review

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3Dconnexion has definitely created something different in the SpaceNavigator, and although its talents are obvious for professional computer designers everywhere, there's a lot of potential for consumer use too. That said, end user application support is somewhat limited at present, so you're going to have to be a serious amateur photographer, Google Earth addict or SketchUp fiend to justify a purchase.

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7/10

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Reviewed by Riyad Emeran

08 February 2008

Price as reviewed

£34.97

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Wwhat

7:34 AM on 11 September, 2008

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In the forums of 3dconnexion you'll find a 32bit driver made by a person named RBC9 that emulates joystick and key and such, with a GUI to set what the various axes do.

In addition the SpaceNavigator also works with a program called GlovePIE which is a utility that is meant to add functionality to inputdevices, however to have it emulate a joystick it needs a 3rd party utility/driver called PPjoy which is no longer being developed further and lacks 64bit functionality.

So in short for 32bit systems it is usable in games but for 64bit it requires more effort using a dll or you are stuck to using it to emulate keystrokes.

it's a nice device though.

I thought I'd give this info for people that stumble upon this review.

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