I don’t mean BETTER. That’s a different conversation. I mean cooler.
An old CRT display was literally a small scale particle accelerator, firing angry electron beams at light speed towards the viewers, bent by an electromagnet that alternates at an ultra high frequency, stopped by a rounded rectangle of glowing phosphors.
If a CRT goes bad it can actually make people sick.
That’s just. Conceptually a lot COOLER than a modern LED panel, which really is just a bajillion very tiny lightbulbs.
Not really an “older iteration” as much as a “sideways iteration”, but the Novint Falcon was the coolest controller I’ve ever used. It had a ton of potential, but it seemed like the company had no clue how to utilize it.
I still have mine sitting on a shelf in my office.
I still have mine in its original box in my closet. I wish there were modern drivers for it with custom game support; so you could mod support into your favorite games.
What a cool device. I just watched this video on it and lost a bunch of my morning in a quite enjoyable way.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jhGeq_yQYyg
Shame the company died before they could do much with it.