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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 31 2011 - 16:04:46 CDT

Tom,
  In principle 2-handed Phantom use should work, though I believe the
last time we tried this was many years ago.

In general the Phantom Omni is pretty nice to use with VMD.
They are not too expensive these days, and they are nearly as good as
the older and more expensive Phantom Desktop we used to use. Getting
the drivers running and setting up the VRPN server are usually the
most annoying steps, but this is par for the course with most similar
haptic devices in my experience.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 03:52:48PM -0500, Thomas Bishop wrote:
> Has anyone used TWO haptic devices w/ VMD/NAMD/IMD?
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Since day one I thought such a setup would give a better feel for things
> (pun intended).
>
> In any case I'd like to hear about experiences w/ the Phantom Omni.
>
>
> Thanks
> TOm
>
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