Full VR systems with motion tracking and are now affordable to most labs (~$2500 for all the peripherals).
Nintendo Wii remotes are about £25 and they do 3-dimensional motion tracking. Perhaps we should by trying to use them for refinement instead? They communicate via the Bluetooth protocol (http://www.wiili.org/Wiimote) and have already been used for controlling industrial robots (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qEotHQgUsg). Stephen -- Dr Stephen Graham Nuffield Medical Fellow Division of Structural Biology Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Roosevelt Drive Oxford OX3 7BN United Kingdom Phone: +44 1865 287 549