{"id":175,"date":"2008-06-19T06:03:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T11:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2008-11-30T12:40:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T17:40:05","slug":"3d-space-navigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"3D Space Navigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago my dad called telling me about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dconnexion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">3D connexion<\/a>&#8216;s Space Navigator. My dad was reading about <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Second Life<\/a>, trying to understand what is I do.  Thanks to dad I now have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dconnexion.com\/3dmouse\/spacenavigatorfornotebooks.php\" target=\"_blank\">Navigator for notebooks<\/a>. It arrived yesterday evening and I took it for a test spin last night in SL.  I did need to download the new release candidate for SL.  3D connexion suggests setting up on the opposite side of the mouse.  I do not use a mouse on my laptop and honestly I am so uncoordinated with my left hand that would be a disaster.  So it sits on the right side of my MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n<p>It was easy to set up and fits comfortably in my hand.  I first tried it out flying and that seems fun and easy. Walking and manipulating objects was a different story.  The mouse is  designed to respond to input from any direction and the slightest movement up or down was reflected in my avatar.  But it is just a matter of getting use to it and playing with a few setting. I need to think 3D and not 2D.  Today I hope to play more in SL, and take a tour in <a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Earth<\/a> (it is compatible with GE).  I am glad school is winding down, there is now more time to play and explore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago my dad called telling me about 3D connexion&#8216;s Space Navigator. My dad was reading about Second Life, trying to understand what is I do. Thanks to dad I now have the Navigator for notebooks. It arrived yesterday evening and I took it for a test spin last night in SL. I did need to download the new release candidate for SL. 3D connexion suggests setting up on the opposite side of the mouse. I do not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=175\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,33],"tags":[225,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}