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> The mouse is such an excellent precision instrument, it's going to be a long time before we have a 6 degree-of-freedom input device that can match it for precision and ease of long term use.

From my experience don't most professional 3D modelers use some sort of pen tablet like a Wacom? Now I'm thinning I would love if Wacom pivoted to the VR/AR space and made a special 6 DOF pen you can use. I hope they don't go the way to Kodak and just get stuck being a pen tablet company while artists make the jump the VR (eventually?)



Good call, Wacom is doing exactly that:

https://developer.wacom.com/en-us/wacomvrpen


The 3dConnexion mouse series are big in 3D CAD shops but totally agree that industrial inertia is what's holding back use of VR HMDs

[1] https://3dconnexion.com/spacemouse/


Wacom does make a special 6 DOF pen for use with VR: https://developer.wacom.com/en-us/wacomvrpen




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