Kickstarter: The Z - The most advanced gaming mouse ever made
The Z at a Glance
Swiftpoint’s previous
Kickstarter project, earned the Best Computer Peripheral Innovation award, at the largest technology show in the US (The CES). Now, after more than three years of development, we are ready to launch
The Z.
It's the world’s first mouse to
pivot, tilt and roll, with a brand new way of clicking buttons - meaning you can access dozens of different button actions while
barely moving your fingers. The Z also senses
how hard you click, giving variable speed / force control, and provides tactile feedback, so you know when you’ve made a ‘deeper click’.
We built in an Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Force Sensor & Tactile Feedback to unleash a faster, more precise and highly intuitive mouse.
If you are a
Designer or home and office
Power User, please check out the info right after the gaming section. If you’re a
Gamer… read on….
The Z for Gamers
Tilt Left or Right
With the mouse on the desk surface, you can tilt left and right for fast mode changes without using your fingers or pushing buttons. You can assign any action to tilt, like leaning, crouching or reloading. Alternatively use it as a modifier key (like shift or control) without actually having to press a button or key!
Use Tilt to lean and take a shot
When playing a game that involves driving - use tilt to take direct analog control of the steering wheel.
We’ve made sure that the ability to tilt doesn’t affect the rock solid performance of normal mousing and have designed adjustable and replaceable feet that can make the tilt easier or harder or set a large or small tilt angle. Or if you want, you can lock out tilt altogether.
Pivot Action
The Z also knows when it is pivoting left or right - this gives you a huge competitive advantage in many first or third-person shooters. You can run straight ahead and at the same time look left and right with analog control (the same way as you would with a VR headset). It provides tactile feedback so you know when you’re facing forward, or looking to the side.
Use Pivot to look left and right
Just like tilt, you can assign any action, modifier (e.g control or shift) to a pivot. Everything is configurable.
Pitch, Roll & Yaw - In the Air or on the Ground
The Z knows when it’s on the table and when it’s in the air. For games like Battlefield, just lift up for
in air control. Once you're in the air use the W/S keys for thrust (or lift), and The Z for pitch, roll, yaw.
Lift up The Z, for a short burst of precise flight control
For longer periods of flight, just place the mouse on the supplied
3-Axis extender and take command with direct free-form control - your hand resting comfortably on the desk.
Place the Z on the 3-Axis Extender for the ultimate free-form control of flight and space sims
Another great use for the The Z, is for intuitive camera control in spectator mode.
For Tilt, Pivot and In Air Gestures, we provide further analog support for games that are compatible with game controller’s analog sticks, by reporting to the game that we are simultaneously, both a mouse, and an analog controller.
50 clickable button actions.... while barely moving a finger.
Many mice pack in additional buttons around the thumb grip and all over the device. We’ve figured out a new way of clicking that means you can have more buttons, that are effortless to click with no finger or thumb contortions required.
The Z has a new type of trigger button. It can be used by simply straightening your finger slightly and then clicking – while still gripping the mouse as normal, with your fingers poised on the main left and right click buttons.
They are so easy to click that you can use them for actions you do frequently, like reloading, jumping or crouching.
You can pull them like a trigger as well. These two buttons are in effect four buttons.
We’ve also added adjustable fingertip buttons, that can be accessed with very little finger movement.
Combine pivot and tilt with trigger and fingertip buttons, to effortlessly access over 50 different actions (48 plus left and right click) - all while maintaining a full grip for maximum control on the mouse.
50 fingertip click actions in 10 seconds!
In addition, we incorporated a scrollwheel button, two front/side buttons, and two thumb buttons, for secondary click actions.
Needless to say The Z makes a great MMO, RPG or MOBA mouse.
The trigger buttons and fingertip button positions are all adjustable (and removable) to perfectly suit your hand size and type of mouse grip.
Deep click with Tactile Feedback
The main left and right buttons and two fingertip buttons all support Deep Click.
Configure the amount of force that suits you (from easy to 'off'), and The Z gives you tactile feedback to let you know when it's activated.
In a First-Person Shooter… right click to bring up your scope, click deeper to zoom in, then deeper again to hold your breath and steady your sights... now take the shot.
For games that have light and heavy attacks, use normal click for a light attack, or click harder to launch a heavy attack.