TrackIR, am I missing something?

[thegoonden]

A mate of mine suggested TrackIR (apparently a doobry that tracks head movements and pans the in-game camera accordingly) might be fun for my racing games. Initially I thought he may be right, but then a rather fundamental question came to me.............

So, I'm thundering down into the parabolica at monza, with Graham Hill in the lotus 49 on my right. I turn my head to look at him to see what he's going to do, and my in-game camera pans round to do the same......all good....except, surely I am now looking out my window and not at the monitor??????

Is it only meant to be used with stereo goggles or something?

Have I missed something here?

 

[thegoonden]

Ahhh, right....WAS missing something then LOL


Sounds good, will look into freetrack.....bound to have a webcam round here somewhere.


Only problem which comes to mind is that I have a tendancy to get a bit too into my driving and start to tilt my head against G-forces I'm not experiencing heheheh. Still, might be able to set it so that movement makes the camera look to the approaching apex a little.

Ta very much folks.

 

[thegoonden]

in real life I have peripheral vision, my head movements are mapped 1:1 with the real world, and when I turn my head right I don't have to turn my eyes back to where I started to continue looking right

I'm not speaking with any experience of trackIR, just what I have read in the thread I linked and my experience of looking around with other methods. It may well be perfect once you get used to it

Hmmmmm good point, I find that the "look to apex" in games option slows me down quite a bit.


Now what you really need is TrackIR/Freetrack.....and a pair of those stereoscopic goggles....that would rock.....but not for me, I have an eye so lazy I basically have no 3d vision at all LOL.