Should the Track IR be my next upgrade?

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Hey guys well I'm going to be getting my buttkicker hooked up this week, and I'm looking into my next upgrade. It's either going to be a fanatec wheel, or the Track IR 5.

I've been looking into the Track IR on youtube, and it really looks like an amazing enhancement for a single screen driver on iracing who uses proper FOV, I always use proper FOV and I find that I do have obstructions on my side, or could use a better angle of the apex, possibly by looking directly at the apex it would allow me to hit it better.

Anyway I'm looking for comments from people who use Track IR with a single screen in Iracing, is it as awesome and helpful as it looks?
 
Yes, hell I use my track ir with three screens. Fantastic device. Calibrate it correctly and set your settings per game.

*Waits for someone to come in and start an argument about how track ir really isn't that good and that you should try a more convoluted "free" solution"

LOL GTplant.
 
Not experienced with it but I would say for sure go for it. Head tracking is a huge factor in immersion.

Mayaman, you have motion right? How's the head tracking with that? Must be tremendously immersive with your f.o.v. box bouncing around with your vision.

I tried a little bit if headtracking on battlefield 2 while flying at a friends house and it was amazing.

As buggy as it is, even the PS eye and gt5 is a great feature. Wish it worked across all modes of play.


Sorry for not really an insightful post ;)
But I would definitely say go with HT technology.


HT with that new Sony headset 3d display would be pretty sick!
 
Put some thought into it / research more before pulling the trigger. I haven't used it myself, but I've heard numerous accounts describing that Track IR isn't really that good for racing but rather for flight simming, especially when you already have a 3 monitor setup.

Again, I have no experience with Track IR, but do keep this in mind.
 
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If you have triple monitors and using for sim racing - no. If you have single monitor - definitely.
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Why not with triples? With triples it is still beneficial. Say while turning in your approach angle puts the a pillar ditectly in your way of properly spotting your apex. With head tracking you can get perspective changes in your view. Cresting a blind hill, shift your body up a little to see that much sooner.

All sorts of usefulness if you drift or rally as well.
 
Caz
Why not with triples? With triples it is still beneficial. Say while turning in your approach angle puts the a pillar ditectly in your way of properly spotting your apex. With head tracking you can get perspective changes in your view. Cresting a blind hill, shift your body up a little to see that much sooner.

All sorts of usefulness if you drift or rally as well.
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I mentioned this with Kinect and FM4 in triples.
Took some getting used to but I was enjoying it.

In a real car if you pan your head you still get the same FOV but of course it pans towards the direction you turn your head.

With FM4 Kinect it was approx only a 1/3rd of a screen left/right.
How does this compare with track ir and triples?

Also how smooth is it?
 
Yes well worth it although it takes a bit of getting used to,I'm using it with eyefinity setup and love it,hadn't realised how accustomed I had gotten to it until I had to play without it recently and found I missed it big time
 
Caz
Why not with triples? With triples it is still beneficial. Say while turning in your approach angle puts the a pillar ditectly in your way of properly spotting your apex. With head tracking you can get perspective changes in your view. Cresting a blind hill, shift your body up a little to see that much sooner.

All sorts of usefulness if you drift or rally as well.
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Just my opinion/experience. Triples extend FOV to add realism and TrackIR ruins this realism (IMO) by manipulating FOV location with head movement. Depends on what you are trying to achieve with the TrackIR.... As Mayaman warned there are other (cheaper) solutions to what you indicate are the benefits and you don't have to deal with constantly changing FOV reference :dunce:...
 
I've used Track ir with and without for my triple setup. To be honest it depends on the game. For NFS or rFactor I don't use it. For F1 2011 I do and its wonderful. You of course have to tweek sensitivity to suit you and the game. But for triples its fine, just need to tone it down and smooth it out. what I find is people either haven't used it or use it for ten minutes and don't really take time to adjust it. Or they do a ****** job. Then they condemn the device.

With the Dbox movement it works fine, at times the violet direction change will almost feel real if that makes any sense.

But in closing, its a great device, its cheap, and you should buy it. Simple as I can put it.

edit: Its amazing with FPS like ArmA as well. Must have for PC gamers IMHO.
 
Well, I've been doing a little bit of research the past few hours, and I found a program called "HeadTrackNoIR" and it is supposed to work amazingly with the playstation eye which I already have. So I installed it, and set it up, but it just didn't work out for me.

Basically if I moved my head about 6 inches forward it would recognize my face a bit, but the simulated screen was going all over the place in all crazy directions, and I could never get it to recognize my face without moving closer toward the PS eye camera.

I don't know if I was doing something wrong, but I doubt it the PS eye did the same thing on a game I have called "the fight: lights out" it simply isn't meant for head tracking.

I did a bit more research and saw that there is another program called free-track that is supposed to work very well with the playstation eye camera, but again reading through the forums I find a lot of people who have many problems.

This leads me to think the best solution is just the Track IR as it will most certainly work. However I'm wondering if anyone has tried freetrack+PSeye+TrackClip Pro, and I'm wondering how this compares to the Track IR software as far as resources, and smoothness. Thanks all!
 
^^^That video is pretty awesome. :)

I'll never understand why people would spend money on a wheel, a rig, pedals, software and then try and cheap out on the tracking software. LOL

Get the real deal, Track IR. Its been around ages, works great, is made for specific games and no fiddling around with hacked work arounds.

No offense meant to any poster in this thread, its just this same exact conversation has gone on for years now. I've seen guys with ECCI wheels, opening threads about how they attached a Direct TV satellite dish to their head with a Wiimote sensor just to save the $149. LOL

Just get Track IR. You'd think the TRack IR people were killing babies to make their hardware.
 
I was looking at TrackIR as well, but aside from sims (racing and flight) and Arma II, do any other games use it? I ask because if I did get it I'm not sure if I'd make it a permanent fixture of my cockpit or not (as I play Arma II OA on occasion), but if only one non-sim game uses it then I might not. Also I have plenty of other things to buy so it's fairly low on my list, but it's also the cheapest thing on said list.
 
Its worth it if you only play one game with it that utilizes what it does. Thats my opinion anyway. It makes the game better. I was an early adopter and bought the first one years ago for one game. Don't regret it, especially since its so cheap. I've had every version since then. No brainer really.

I believe they have a money back refund. Don't like it? Send it back and no harm no foul. :)

Always try stuff for yourself if you can. That way you know you made the right decision.
 
Since you've owned every single one of them mayaman, do you think it's worth the extra 50 bucks for the version 5 instead of the vesion 4? Also what about the TrackClip Pro? I've heard it works much better than the included reflectors.
 
The version 5 is definitely smoother thats for sure. But if you're on a budget the 4 should work fine for you since you've never used 5. Track clip pro is a must. It give you 6 DOF.

You should contact them and tell them you're on GTPlanet, they may have a coupon. Save yourself a couple bucks, can't hurt. Also ask them about their return policy in case you don't like it.

Remember if you get it, take your time and see what does what, don't get frustrated. I've seen it for years where people get something cool and then get frustrated and quit it. :)
 

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