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Originally Posted by winny
My logic is sound. My explaination may be a little confused...
What I'm saying is that if you turn your head right to "look" right in game, your eyes will then be looking to your left to be able to see the screen. So in practice whichever way you turn your head your eyes have to go in the opposite direction to remain focused on the screen. Which is counterintuitive. When I say VR headset I mean one with inbuilt screens. I totally get how it works and how it could be usefull but you are basically controlling a hatswitch with your head. For it to function in a realistic way, ie. looking over your shoulder to "look" behind you, it would require the screen to be attached to your head...
In fact I'm surprised that no-one has come out with a system that does this..
If I was designing one it would be made to look like a modern fighter pilots helmet with the screen built into the visor and all the track-IR stuff on it. A video lead and some headphones built in.. Probably be too expensive to do but would be good to try out.
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? I think you've just dreamed up a video game perepheral in the region of thousands of pounds, lol. I'm still completely baffled to your theory. You are only going through a slight motion in turning your head to the left, right, up or down. The movement is so slight. Not once have I, or any other user that I know of, have used the Track IR & thought "Hmm that's a totally counterintuitive experience there. A glorified hatswitch for the head is what it's not. Show me a hatswitch that is capable of movement around all 6 axis of 3-D movement. You can even crane your head in such a way that you can look fully around the cockpit flight controls (not that you would really want to). To the wearer, it's the most natural experience when placed infront of a 2-dimensional screen & it beats the hell out of the laborious 'padlock' switch. The user can implement natural skills of keeping tabs on his enemy.
There's alot of talk of bringing head tracking to PS3 & 360. Those 2 machines are fantastic consoles & are fully capable of keeping up with most PC's of today. It's time barriers were broken & console gamers got to experience head tracking in games. I'd be lost without it where my aircraft & motorsport sims are concerned.