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Re:‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Googl... by jcun4128 on Sunday October 17, 2021 @11:14PM (#28901900)
I was thinking it's funny the literal globe interface you use and then this knob you turn that's held by this arm.
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Re:‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Googl... by cma on Monday October 18, 2021 @01:02AM (#28902381)
> knob you turn

That's a 6-dof spacemouse, still widely used today in CAD and 3d modeling.

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Re:‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Googl... by matheusmoreira on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:59AM (#28903476)
https://youtu.be/AX7yS4q6kZY

What an interesting input device.

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Re:‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Googl... by iamacyborg on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:37AM (#28903369)
It always makes me laugh that the ship controls in The Expanse are literally one of these things.
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Re:‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Googl... by jcun4128 on Monday October 18, 2021 @01:12AM (#28902417)
oh wow, I had to watch a video to see how that works, I have seen them before but thought it was just rotating on a plane.
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