Eliminating competition through unscrupulous methods generally means a company has probably exhausted all their ideas for improvement, and must resort to hard measures to maintain their business.
I use freetrack along with many other Il2 users. You can read pros and cons for all headtracking on these boards. However, head tracking is not discussed much here.
Building a proper head tracker for use with Freetrack is not as easy as it looks. I had to build several before I go mine right. TrackIR is a go right out of the box, and that is more appealing to most people.
Natualpoint has some influence, since they have been around for so long. I doubt, as you suggest they have the kind of clout you mention with any game application developers. If head movement can be managed for fluid movement within the application with a mouse this can be applied to work with any device that can provide like inputs to the application.
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