James has posted on January 4th that the 3DConnexion SpaceNavigator didn’t work with ArcGIS.  Well, the Sr. Product Marketing Manager spoke up on the topic and said they were willing to do the work to support ArcGIS.  But more importantly…

We will be supporting NASA World Wind and expect to ship that solution within the next three months.

That is some good news to hear.. but I have to think, there will be some bad news in that as well.. as there will be three versions of World Wind in the next three months.  1.3.5/1.3.6 which are .Net 1.1, 1.4 which is .Net 2.0 and 1.5 which is Java based.

I offered on the related blog post to help with getting the SpaceNavigator to work with all the World Wind versions.. I have quicker access to cattle prod the World Wind devs into helping