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Author Topic: Nextick Lightgun on Indiegogo - anyone heard anything about this?  (Read 829 times)

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There is a new lightgun that has an Indiegogo campaign, it is a completely wireless lightgun and needs no external sensors / light emitters etc.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nextick-lightgun-wireless-blowback-lightgun/

They had a previous Indiegogo campaign which was also a controller like a lightgun but it was in the shape of a joystick / flightstick.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/advanced-lightgun-and-joystick-mouse-from-nextick/

I am wondering if anyone has heard anything about either of these, particularly if anyone has used the original joystick type lightgun and how well it performs?

I know it sounds like a wiimote and I know how that performs but it may use newer sensors and programming to be better than that so I'm interested in how well this actually works.

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Re: Nextick Lightgun on Indiegogo - anyone heard anything about this?
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2023, 07:29:56 am »
Its a air mouse.

Just watch where the gun is aiming in relation to the screen/on screen cross hairs.

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Re: Nextick Lightgun on Indiegogo - anyone heard anything about this?
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2023, 07:54:21 am »
I wasn't sure if you meant what I thought you meant, that you're not actually aiming at the screen but just moving the cursor around... until I watched carefully and about 17 seconds into the second video he is aiming completely downwards and still moving the crosshairs around...

Well, I'm glad I asked, you've saved me a costly mistake, thanks :)

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Re: Nextick Lightgun on Indiegogo - anyone heard anything about this?
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2023, 07:55:00 am »
No problem :)