Free Track vs Track IR ?

[indiaciki]

Any thoughts on both? I'd need a tracking system for BOS, X-Plane, DCS and ROF. I can't fly combat without something like that.

Edited January 21, 2015 by indiaciki

[39bn_pavig]

TrackIR is more solid and works out of the box for the main commercial flight sims. Freetrack may require tinkering and unless you manage to get it set up right may not perform as well as trackIR. Opentrack (a fork of freetrack and some other open tracker tech) is recommended by many people who are doing it DIY. 

 

So if you have the money for trackIR or do not wish to tinker too much then it is worth the money. For those who tinker with electronics though opentrack is the way to go. One of the fellows in my clan built an arduino based opentrack solution that combined IR LEDs with camera tracking and built in accelerometers in the headset for added accuracy. Such a project would tax anyone's geek skills. 

 

So go TrackIR unless you have a compelling reason not to (finances, wish to experiment). For any free tracking solution you are going to have to build stuff to get it to work acceptably, which may mean stripping the IR filters out of a webcam and jerry rigging some LEDs to a hat or other such stuff. Pure facial recognition tracking via webcam does not have the performance to enhance combat flight sims as it is just too laggy. Given that you'll end up building hardware equivalent to trackIR for reasonable performance it makes sense to just buy the real thing at the outset.

[Dakpilot]

Don't forget Edtracker

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4hyMbHpl18

 

http://edtracker.org.uk/

 

http://edtracker.org.uk/index.php/shop

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[indiaciki]

Just bought a logitech c270 webcam for about 25€ and installed Facetracknoir. No aditional hardware like hats and diodes. Works great

Edited January 21, 2015 by indiaciki

[SCG_Space_Ghost]

TIR5 every day of the week, hands down.

 

I have tried both.

[indiaciki]

Sure. I'll buy trackIR soon. I had no idea what it is like flying with this kind of view. It's fantastic .