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Why not? Such as? Sometimes it's just fun to make something, avoiding it just because said thing already exists in some form is silly.
I mean, completely ignoring prior researches can be a bit disingenuous.
I can do whatever you want with my own projects, if I want to make an app to do X thing I can.
Wouldn't it be better to use head tracking to get the position of the head relative to the monitor, so the monitor behaves like a window? Like in Johnny Lee's classic Wii demo [1]. The way it currently works (rotating the view upon head rotation) doesn't really make sense because a monitor is not a head mounted display. 1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
Cool to see this, it's a cool in-between step for not having additional wraparound screens or a VR headset. I used to run a similar software[1] for when I was really into playing F1 racing games. However one of the problems I found was the initial disconnect in your head and eye movement that took some getting used to. For example, if you want to look left to see an upcoming turn, naturally your eyes move before your…
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opentrack would be the one to beat these days: https://github.com/opentrack/opentrack It's completely replaced my TrackIR 5, since it averts the need to wear headphones and dig out the tracking bracket every time I want to use it, and the accuracy feels about the same. I found head tracking pretty much becomes second-nature after a while - to the point at which it feels weird to play first-person sims without it. Not…
Do you really prefer webcam + opentrack over the trackir? Asking because I literally have a trackir on the way to me in the mail, and most discussions I could find were at least 2-3 years old.
What are the differences between OpenTrack and this ?
But doesn't it make you look away from the monitor? Unless you have this 45 inch curved monitor really close to your face?
...why would webcam head tracking need a new standalone vibecoded project? I thought there are plenty of those already.
Cool to see this, it's a cool in-between step for not having additional wraparound screens or a VR headset. I used to run a similar software[1] for when I was really into playing F1 racing games. However one of the problems I found was the initial disconnect in your head and eye movement that took some getting used to. For example, if you want to look left to see an upcoming turn, naturally your eyes move before your…
opentrack would be the one to beat these days: https://github.com/opentrack/opentrack It's completely replaced my TrackIR 5, since it averts the need to wear headphones and dig out the tracking bracket every time I want to use it, and the accuracy feels about the same. I found head tracking pretty much becomes second-nature after a while - to the point at which it feels weird to play first-person sims without it. Not…
Last time I tried it there were still some problems (combinations of face pitch adjustment and z-axis translation resulted in weird camera movements in-sim IIRC) that makes me hesitate to call it fully natural, but some of it could probably be a filtering/configuration issue.
It's also fully possible TrackIR suffers from the same issue!