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I don't know what "haptic feedback" is

It comes from a Greek root that boils down to “touching”. It’s things you can feel; the clicking of a microswitch, the resistance of a joystick, the force feedback of... dual linear resonant actuators.

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jesus christ there’s like no way i can post that fast you guys i give up

Looking back at what Carmack was saying about controllers at QuakeCon last month, I wonder whether he had this in mind and was dancing around it to honor an NDA. He talked about other prototypes he’d been shown at Valve. It sounded a bit like this has some of the attributes he’d hinted would be desirable in a new generation of controllers. Certainly avoids the “zero button mouse” problem, at least.