There’s no feature loss when compared with other system. This has proven to me to be extremely convenient and I don’t use a headset that much and I don’t feel comfortable using a hat in my living room.įaceTrackNoIR captures pretty much all the movements you can do with your head: yaw, pitch, roll, translate to the left and right, up and down or front and back (allowing you to look closer at your panels). Pretty much like TrackIR or Trackhat do, except you need no reflectors or any other piece of hardware attached to your headset (or hat) or anything like that.
It uses a camera to track your face and your head movement. Oh yes, let me tell you what is it that FaceTrackNoIR actually does. Code Laboratories has their own driver at a very affordable price ($2.99). Now please do bear in mind that you’ll need some drivers for the PS3Eye to work with your PC.
Having one of those around, I gave it a try. Wim (the creator of FaceTrackNoIR) recommends the PS3Eye camera (which, by the way, is the same camera the folks at TrackHat recommend – and sell – as well). There are also reports of users that have been having success with FSW as well so it pretty much covers the main sims. There’s also a list of compatible games and you’ll find FSX, X-Plane, DCS and FlightGear there. At all!įaceTrackNoIR’s website has a list of fully compatible cameras but I don’t think that means that if your camera’s not here, it won’t work. What about the hardware, you ask? Here’s the thing: besides a webcam (which you probably already own anyway), it needs no other hardware. What do you get with that? Well, a piece of software. And it wasn’t pretty.īut FaceTrackNoIR was a complete surprise to me.įirst, let me tell you about the price: €2,85. I must confess I was a bit skeptical when I first heard of this “almost-hardware-free” solution called FaceTrackNoIR. TrackHat, which we have reviewed some time ago, for example, is a much affordable solution when compared with TrackIR – with similar, and sometimes better, results. Other products have emerged in the market meanwhile. These folks started the head tracking revolution. Whenever someone talks about head tracking, TrackIR is obviously mentioned. Options such as TrackIR have been in the market for a long time and are, basically, leading the way.
Somewhere in the middle is head tracking technology – which is also less expensive. We can do this by adding more monitors to our systems or go all the way to the most recent technology: VR. As simmers, one of the things we are always trying to do is to increase our outside awareness.
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