Rollermouse..?

Anyone used a rollermouse before?
I’ve been thinking about getting one, for VR use. I have a trackball that works well enough, but I wanted something that was ambidextrous, so I thought a rollermouse would work, until I saw how big they are…
Then I stumbled across this mobile variant.

I ordered one and it showed up today…
I think this can work. Need to come up with a clever way of mounting it.

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Looks interesting. I thought it was going to be something like this? :slight_smile:
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I can picture it before me.
Ooookay… Troll finally went off his rocker, completely this time.

:crazy_face:

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ROFLORM! Rolling on floor laughing over roller mouse

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never heard about or saw something like that :slight_smile:

I guess you have heard about ambidextrous trackballs :trackball: :wink:

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I haven’t, but thanks for the find…

Someone recently posted about the Kensington trackball they use and I was about to get one soon (next pension ‘payrise’ is this month)

These are ‘a bit more’ expensive, but a colleague at work used one (was integral with their keyboard) and I found they were more precise than a trackball. At least I now have options :slight_smile:

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Looks like there should be paper going in/coming out of there. :thinking:

Honestly have never seen one of those, I learned something today. Let us know how it works.

I’ve got a Kensington trackball mouse I use in my sim, it works okay but I’ve about worn out the left click button, in only a couple years of simming (and not every day, or week for that matter).

Someone had a small ‘presenter’ trackball designed to be held in the hand and used, I wondered if maybe that would work. My ideal solution for VR (where I basically only need to wiggle to get the cursor somewhere, then aim with my head and use the buttons/scroll) would be a touchpad integrated into an empty panel in the cockpit. Probably gonna try one of those at some point.

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And mice… :wink:
Yeah, but as I’m not ambidextrous myself, I need something that my :poop: for :brain: can use with my left :point_left: hand.
My reasoning is that it will be easier to operate the roller, since both axes are guided…?
I dunno… The roller isn’t self centering and I may end up fumbling around to find it? Maybe this won’t work at all? Well see :slight_smile:

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I have developed the muscle memory to be able to put my hand on the mouse with VR goggles on… I just need to swap that memory to my left hand as well so I don’t have to remove my right hand from the joystick (or swap hands temporarily). So I guess if you can put you hand on a mouse then self-centering shouldn’t be a big deal?

However now that I have given it second thoughts, does that Rollermouse have a scroll wheel/middle mouse button capability? My colleagues didn’t (i.e. it was a basic two button mouse).

I struggle with that, with my left hand. But I haven’t really been working on that either, as I haven’t mounted a mouse on the left side of my simpit.

Yes, it does. I totally covered that with my sausage fingers, in the picture.

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talking out of my own… perspective :slight_smile:
tried wired and also wireless; eventually didnt work for me.

I also came to conclusion that small touchpad integrated/glued directly to throttle quadrant would be the best solution.

X55/56 wanted to introduce small thumbstick to operate the mouse, not good.

but look at the Turtlebeach VelicityOne stick. these guys have integrated small touchpad into their joystick.

I would guess that there can be something enough small which can be put on the throttle somewhere.

but in the past I was able to source only some middle solution size wise. I mounted it on the side of my X56 throttle, still in the reach of my thumb.