Not Necessarily PS3 related....although I do use a PS EYE. Head Tracking Device + PC Flight Sim (Rise of Flight)

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#1 Mon, 03/26/2012 - 22:04
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Not Necessarily PS3 related....although I do use a PS EYE. Head Tracking Device + PC Flight Sim (Rise of Flight)

So I've been playing this awesome WW1 flight sim called Rise of Flight (free of course - but you can pay for extra planes and missions etc.....which I will be doing!).

Being a WW1 sim you don't have a "radar" lol or anything like that so you are constantly having to look around you while you are flying - to the sides / above / down at your controls and behind you. Typically people do this with the mouse for looking and then have the other hand on their flight stick. But a lot of people use TrackIR which is a program / camera setup that costs about 200.00 and tracks your head movement. However; there are a couple of "free" options out there and this is the first one I've tried. This one is a face tracking application (basically Kinect for your face lol).

It works really well - better than I thought it would. Some key things to getting it to work well including having a decent machine (it is processor intensive) and a good camera. I used my PS3 Eye which is a very good (high FPS) web camera (I tried it with my build in iSight camera on my mac but the performance was noticibaly worse). I still have some tweaking to do to get it working how I want it but I have it pretty close right now :) Here is a little video I made showing how it works etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pOs6gtKa9A

Mon, 03/26/2012 - 22:20
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Here's a tip. Go buy a real fricken ideo camera......wtf is with the tiny ass picture???????   Lol

Mon, 03/26/2012 - 22:21
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Here's a tip. Go buy a real fricken ideo camera......wtf is with the tiny ass picture???????   Lol

Mon, 03/26/2012 - 22:21
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Here's a tip. Go buy a real fricken video camera......wtf is with the tiny ass picture???????   Lol

Mon, 03/26/2012 - 22:30
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I guess you told him.....three times!   smiley

Tue, 03/27/2012 - 13:53
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Word...forum glitch. Only hit the submit button once

Tue, 03/27/2012 - 13:58 (Reply to #6)
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corbin_dallas wrote:

Word...forum glitch. Only hit the submit button once

 

Such a noob. 

 

Hey I have a better video camera - I left it on your momma's night stand.  I've never owned a video camera lol and my DSLR can't record either (damn thing!).

 

Oh you might as well send the anal lube and giant rubber fist back with the camera.  Thanks sweetie! :D

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