Head Tracking with Cliffs of Dover

[Qpassa]

Would be good to know the position of OM. Have they blocked access to needed information as Eagle Dynamics did with DCS:Black Shark(because Natural Point payed it)?

[Royraiden]

Well, Ilya has been shown using TrackIR in 2 videos.In one of them he was actually talking about it.

Instead of making a setup that tracks three infrared lights, just mount a few to shine towards you (high output LED's if possible) and just make your own reflective clip instead. That way you don't have to have a bunch of wires hanging from your head, and the LED setup could run off of a power source other than batteries. (think replacing one of those USB LED lamps with an IR one).

[Matt255]

-Support(not all games supporting track ir support freetrack, correct me)

Could be, never found one that doesn't support Freetrack though (Black Shark needs a fix though).

-Bothersome to make clip(at least to me)

You can buy the TrackClipPro (yes, pretty expensive, but still less expensive then TrackIR). This might be a problem if you don't wear a headphone/headset.

-Requires a dark room to work properly most of the time

Not if you use IR LED's (or bought the TrackClipPro).

I'm using Freetrack with a VX3000 webcam and the TrackclipPro and it works perfectly, no reason for me to get TrackIR.


If CloD won't support Freetrack, i'll be very disappointed.

[Royraiden]

Thanks for your replies.Indeed a lot of people will be dissapointed if there's no Freetrack support.That is why I havent bought anything yet.

[Wolf_Rider]

does FT still hack from TIR software?

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

does FT still hack from TIR software?

Huh?
TIR cameras are locked out in the current FT software(by NP request), so no, I don't think they copy their software.

But I managed to find a FT version which you make work with a TIR cam, only needs an additional optitrack driver.
In my case that's a TIR3 cam, the results however are not so overwhelming.
Could be due to the fact that my LED construction's dimensions are not 100% identical to TIR specs?

Anyway, I just bought used TIR5 for $80, and hope it performs better.
I wonder what benefit over 100 fps will have .

So far, FT wins hands down.
- easier to use and to setup imho
- more software options for adjustments
- cheaper

[Wolf_Rider]

Swiss, as I understood it the FT hacks from the NP coding.

Not having the TIR camera available for use with the FT software is the other end of the stick and irrelevent.

[Royraiden]

Originally Posted by swiss

Huh?
TIR cameras are locked out in the current FT software(by NP request), so no, I don't think they copy their software.

But I managed to find a FT version which you make work with a TIR cam, only needs an additional optitrack driver.
In my case that's a TIR3 cam, the results however are not so overwhelming.
Could be due to the fact that my LED construction's dimensions are not 100% identical to TIR specs?

Anyway, I just bought used TIR5 for $80, and hope it performs better.
I wonder what benefit over 100 fps will have .

So far, FT wins hands down.
- easier to use and to setup imho
- more software options for adjustments
- cheaper

Were did you find it that cheap?

[LoBiSoMeM]

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

does FT still hack from TIR software?

Above, the first post of W-R here...

Really pathetic, troll... Keep the good work of diseminate lies and accusing us - Freetrack users - of beeing "troublemakers"...

Shame...