Future Electronic Musical Instruments
Six degrees of freedom of the Sixense/Razer Hydra controllerAccording to a forum post in December 2010, Sixense Entertainment is working on musical control with the Sixense TrueMotion motion controller.
Immersive virtual musical instruments, or immersive virtual instruments for music and sound aim to represent musical events and sound parameters in a virtual reality so that they can be perceived not only through auditory feedback but also visually in 3D and possibly through tactile as well as haptic feedback, allowing the development of novel interaction metaphors beyond manipulation such as prehension.
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