BoB and Freetrack

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by julian265

Nearmiss, according to an ED representative on the DCS:BS forum, ED are negotiating an agreement with NP, to include TIR support, and allow 3DoF support for freetrack and others. Stated without euphemism, non NP head trackers are being limited to 3DoF.

Discussion of freetrack is also suppressed on that forum.

If you didn't already know, the current head movement communications between TIR and games have become encrypted, which excludes other trackers. It appears that if the game programmers allow the usual open protocols to be used, NP will not allow TIR to be used with the game. If you or 1C can show me otherwise, please do.

Brando, your comparison is incorrect. Each joystick manufacturer doesn't and shouldn't use different communication protocols (that's the beauty of the USB interface). Head tracking should be the same, and we would be closer to this situation if NP wasn't making deals with game makers to exclude other trackers. You know how your joystick communicates each axis's information to a sim? That's how it was* (pre NP encryption), and should be with head tracking, just with 6 axes. So it's not as if it takes extra work to make other trackers compatible, but they're working to keep other trackers out. That's my gripe, and that's why your comparison is wrong.

*The Freetrack programmers were wrong to program their software to communicate with games using NP's protocol. The above is why they did it.

Calculating pose from 3 points is not new, and was not NP's invention, by the way. As far as I know, the freetrack developers used their own math to work out head pose.

Sorry, but ED is nothing compared to IL2 and never will be. I gave up on that sim after LockON. I refuse to install their spyware or so-called piracy protected software on my system. No way Jose'.

You may love it, and thats your prerogative. I think you'll find things are less paranoid with the IL2, and it's developer.

Nothing you could say that ED was going to do would surprise me.