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An optical trackpad is an input device based on an optical sensor, which detects the displacement of a finger that is moving on top of it. [1] The sensor is used typically in smartphones , where it replaces the D-pad , and in ultra-portable or ultra-mobile PCs , where it replaces touchpads , pointing sticks or trackballs as pointing device .
Logitech Cordless TrackMan Wheel trackball mose The original version of the Kensington Expert Mouse can use a standard American pool ball as a trackball. [citation needed]A trackball is a pointing device consisting of a ball held by a socket containing sensors to detect a rotation of the ball about two axes—like an upside-down ball mouse with an exposed protruding ball. [1]
IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 Microsoft IntelliMouse with IntelliEye optical sensor mouse. IntelliMouse is a series of computer mice from Microsoft.The IntelliMouse series is credited with a number of innovations; [1] Microsoft was among the first mouse vendors to introduce a scroll wheel, [2] an optical mouse, and dedicated auxiliary buttons on the side of the mouse.
The claim that the advent of optical tracking in mice put trackballs at a disadvantage makes no sense, as trackballs acquired optical tracking before mice. The first optical mouse (using the modern definition) was released in 1999 by Microsoft. The Logitech Trackman Marble used optical tracking and was released in 1996 — around 3 years earlier.
As mentioned later in this article, pointing devices have different possible states. Examples for these states are out of range, tracking or dragging. Examples. a computer mouse is an indirect, relative, isotonic, position-control, translational input device with two degrees of freedom (x, y position) and two states (tracking, dragging).
The WNBA will become the first women's professional sports league in the U.S. to have league-wide optical tracking after entering a multi-year deal with Second Spectrum, a Genius Sports technology ...
Optical pointing sticks are also used on some Ultrabook tablet hybrids, such as the Sony Duo 11, ThinkPad Tablet and Samsung Ativ Q. On the Gateway 2000 Liberty laptop the pointing stick is above the enter key on the right side of the keyboard. A pointing stick was featured in the New Nintendo 3DS as a secondary analog stick, known as the C-Stick.
The BlackBerry Pearl 8100 was the first BlackBerry without a trackwheel, which was replaced by a miniature trackball to enable full 4-way and mouse-style navigation on a BlackBerry. The look of the new trackball gave the "Pearl" its name. The 9000 series was launched in 2008.