TrackIR 5 Pro: User Experience & Thoughts...

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I've been eyeing this for a little while now and as a triple set up is a while away as I want to go triple screen projection but not the right time, am thinking of this.

Can anyone that has it give me their honest thoughts. I've come from real club sprint events and track days and I miss the looking into corners and out of them but is it what it says it is - I'm not after an extra tenth of a second in lap times, just more fun and realism.

Thanks..!
 
3 year Bump! I suppose that a lot of you own one now. Is it worth the money? Does it work well in the dark?

Cheers :cheers:
 
I built my own for about 30 bucks and it works pretty well.

FaceTrackNoir Software
PS3 Eye Camera
Red and Blue 3D Glasses
Duracell Instant USB charger
Chinese IR LED Mount (pic inserted) - got this one ebay; search trackir

I'll post a pic of my headset setup a little later today.

Edit- I thought I'd add that mine is a "Wireless" solution.
 

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mister dog
3 year Bump! I suppose that a lot of you own one now. Is it worth the money? Does it work well in the dark?

Cheers :cheers:
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I got one not so long ago for playing flight sims and elite dangerous. I would hate to be without it now, it really makes those types of games so much easier and more realistic to play. I got the regular one as I couldn't find any difference between them stated anywhere, so thought the extra wire going to my head would be annoying.

I was kind of disappointed with it at first because it's not as smooth as panning the camera with the mouse, it's very jittery and only seems to work somewhat smoothly if I lock my fps to 60 fps. I have a 144hz g sync monitor so it's kind of annoying having to limit it to 60hz to get the trackir working smoothly. If your fps moves around a lot then it will probably be jittery. I don't see how playing in the dark could be a problem, it's infrared.
 
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I got one not so long ago for playing flight sims and elite dangerous. I would hate to be without it now, it really makes those types of games so much easier and more realistic to play. I got the regular one as I couldn't find any difference between them stated anywhere, so thought the extra wire going to my head would be annoying.

I was kind of disappointed with it at first because it's not as smooth as panning the camera with the mouse, it's very jittery and only seems to work somewhat smoothly if I lock my fps to 60 fps. I have a 144hz g sync monitor so it's kind of annoying having to limit it to 60hz to get the trackir working smoothly. If your fps moves around a lot then it will probably be jittery. I don't see how playing in the dark could be a problem, it's infrared.
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I have a 60hz screen so it seems better suited then. Did you try tweaking all the settings? I read a bit more about it and many say that initially it was weird and annoying, and they needed to dial it in for it to be perfect.

How do you like it with racing games? I would also get the standard version and just get a baseball cap, as everyone seems to complain the add on thing is very fragile and breaks in a second.
 
mister dog
I have a 60hz screen so it seems better suited then. Did you try tweaking all the settings? I read a bit more about it and many say that initially it was weird and annoying, and they needed to dial it in for it to be perfect.

How do you like it with racing games? I would also get the standard version and just get a baseball cap, as everyone seems to complain the add on thing is very fragile and breaks in a second.
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I only tried it briefly on assetto corsa and it worked just like in the flight sims, but it takes getting used to. I was not able to control the car as well as with the fixed screen. But I think it would be fine with practice. For me it took very little dialing in, it just felt very natural from the start, I thought it would take getting used to moving my head but keeping my eyes on the screen, but it was no problem at all. The default profiles aren't bad and only needed slight adjustment on a few axis for me. Just a little added deadzone in the center so it's not constantly moving.

For flight sims and games like that, I would consider it one of the most important things to have, for driving games it's nice and cool to look around the cockpit and see tracks in a different way, but I think it will need practice to be as good as with the fixed screen, as in driving sims I get a lot of info about the cars behaviour from how the screen tilts, though it was great when doing a drift and getting huge angle while being able to see where I was going.
 
I read over on Racedepartement that a lot of users turn down one of those axis and then the screen stays more fixed, so they can better judge when the car is breaking away.
 
mister dog
I read over on Racedepartement that a lot of users turn down one of those axis and then the screen stays more fixed, so they can better judge when the car is breaking away.
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Yep I think something like that would work, I was considering making a profile for assetto corsa, I've just been sucked into the flight and space sims since I got it, so I haven't given any time to setting it up in AC yet. There's enough options in the setup to make it work pretty much anyway you like. I've never had it stop working or any faults like that, once it works on a game it just works with no hassle. Though you can usually customise a few options to your taste. Like I usually set the z axis to zoom instead of longitude head movement.
 
I built my own too for about 30 bucks and it works very well. I'm using Free Track software (75 fps 640x480 from the PS3 Eye Camera, Free Track interpolates x 2 = 150 fps: very precise and smooth). LEDs are mounted on a cap, daylight filter installed on the camera. Very important to set the curves and sensitivity right.
I'm always using it, don't want to race without.
 
I'm going to look at this as I am currently contemplating how to get my webcam stable on top of my monitor with my CSW + Ozone setup. Thanks!
 
mister dog
Someone actually tipped me on this:

http://www.edtracker.co.uk/

More than half the price of the Trackir, and it doesn't use a camera :p
Did a little search here but nothing on GTP, so i suppose it's not very well known yet. Seems to work like a charm though.
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After a little bit of research I found a substantial (for me) gripe with this tech:

EDTrack is on TrackIR3 category - a 3DOF device, not properly comparable to TrackIR5 (6DOF).
Basically you are missing zoom, lean and rotation movements
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Like I said before, I'll post a pic of my solution tonight. I'm pretty sure it works equally as well (just needs to be manually calibrated) as TrackIR for about a fourth of the price. STAY TUNED!!!

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I bought an EDTracker for my dad. It works very well, but no 'positional tracking' as stated by jughead: if you move your whole body left or right it is not tracked, only the rotation of your head. Remember to calibrate the unit well before using it, otherwise you may get strange results (needs to be done only once). Very useful for racing and flying. I'm using a FreeTrack solution (great) for years now, EDTracker did not exist at that time. Both highly recommended.
 
As mentioned before, here is my apparatus...

FaceTrackNoir Software (free)
PS3 Eye Camera ($5 on Amazon last time I looked)
Red and Blue 3D Glasses (for UV light filtering of the PS3 Eye) (50 for $5 on ebay)
Duracell Instant USB charger ($13 Amazon)
Chinese IR LED Mount ($23 on ebay)
Logitech G930 Wireless Surround Headset (not adding to the price of the tracker)
Adhesive Velcro ($5)

Total = $51 (You likely have some of this stuff laying around if you're handy or a junk collector)

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