Talk:Optical mouse/Archive 1

Glaser working on mirror
The article says that glaser mice will work on mirrors and transparent glass but only gives citation for the latter. I have a glaser mouse and it doesnt work at all on the mirror. So either a citation should be entered or the reference should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.251.255.151 (talk) 09:03, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that sounds like bullshit to me and I'll have to see it to believe it. Daniel Santos (talk) 16:55, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Actual year of commercial production
I had an Amiga 500 which I had purchased an optical mouse in 1993, way before Microsoft. It required a pad for the light to reflect, but it was an optical mouse that worked extremely well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.137.5.133 (talk) 03:21, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Laser Mice
I've updated a few things in laser mice, but I'm not actually 100% that the first VCSEL was released by Avago, although they certainly do appear to control the majority of the high-end market. So if anybody has other info on this, please fix it. Daniel Santos (talk) 16:57, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, I've since discovered that Avago has off-loaded all of it's navigation sensors to Pixart Imaging (when you see "PAW" at the beginning of a part number, that's them). They transferred manufacturing to them in December 2011 and everything else in August 2012.  Not sure if this maters too much to this article, but it's a piece of trivia that's important for some, since they currently have the highest precision optical navigation sensors. Daniel Santos (talk) 21:17, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Laser mice work by correlation-imaging, the same basic principle as LED mice, but a very important difference is that the laser mice see a laser speckle pattern (due to the coherent light source) which is related to the surface texture at the scale of the laser wavelength (i.e. c.850nm). This means they will work on far smoother surfaces than LED mice. Although I've recently researched some academic papers on their working, I haven't yet got a single concise and complete reference to offer. Andrew / techmind.org 109.153.179.27 (talk) 23:23, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

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A paragraph reads like it was taken from IntelliMouse advertising copy

 * The first commercially available, modern optical computer mice were the Microsoft IntelliMouse with IntelliEye and IntelliMouse Explorer, introduced in 1999 using technology developed by Hewlett-Packard.[11] It worked on almost any surface, and represented a welcome improvement over mechanical mice, which would pick up dirt, track capriciously, invite rough handling, and need to be taken apart and cleaned frequently.

"Invite rough handling"? What is that even talking about? "Track capriciously"? Again, what? Most mechanical mice by that point tracked quite accurately. Even a year's accumulation of dirt tended not to degrade performance much because the dirt tended to form an even ring around each roller axis. "Need" to be taken apart "frequently"? They could go months or even years without being cleaned and still function fairly ok, since like I said, the dirt tended to accumulate evenly. (Perhaps it was worse for people that had shedding pets or sweaty hands?) Even "taken apart" sounds a little over-the-top. It's not like you had to disassemble the whole mouse. You just slid or twisted off the collar holding the ball in, dropped the ball out, scratched the gunk off the rollers with your fingernail, and put the ball and collar right back in. That's no more "taking apart" a mouse than it's "taking apart" a TV remote control when you remove the battery cover and replace its batteries.

Yes, optical mice were definitely an improvement, but the advantages are overstated right now. &mdash;Undomelin (talk) 14:22, 15 February 2018 (UTC)