TrackIR5 is out!

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by rakinroll

Oh my!.. feel stupid that i spend those dollars to my tir4 pro.

How so? The difference between a marketable technology and a piece software demonstrating a technology is huge interms of effort and time and cost.

You and I paid good money for TIR's because they work with the minimum amount of effort on our part. Nautral point developed a marketable technology that has been integrated into a lot of programs.

Just few question. Who here uses their Track IR software in mouse emulation mode with unsupported software? What is your satisfaction with the result?

My quess at the answers would be , Not many , and It could be improved. My take on things is that TrackIR is effective because it is nativly supported in a wide range of current software titles and the list is getting bigger. Without this native support then Track IR would just be a curiosity like the two bits of software shown above.


Now when these new technologies mature and are nativey supported and are ready to market, I doubt that they will be "free". The developers that put in all that time, effort and money will want to be recoginised and in our culture money if the generally acceptable medium for that recogintion. (About the exception for this is of course those highly talented and dedicated individuals who create mission and skins, content and the like for games and all they want in return is the occasion "hey! This is cool" mention in dispatches!)

Cheers!