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T think that we must put FreeTrack on launchpad...

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Here's my idea to improve FreeTrack and to make TrackIR obsolete:


1.Foreword

I knew tha FreeTrack is only for windows, for some games. I had a lot of issues the last times I tried to use it, after bought the PS3Eye an spent weeks for building 3point clips, and weeks trying to get FreeTrack to work. Finally I gived up... the flight simulation! I have HOTAS Cougar, Pedals, a top-edge computer and licences for LOMAC fc2 and X-Plane... but I lost the hope to move my head in the game without gift money to natural Point (and I'm an engineer, not a stupid kid xD ).

2. Synopsis

- FreeTrack is only for Windows;
- FreeTrack is only for some titles;
- FreeTrack is not user-friendly;
- I apreciate A LOT the work of those people who worked hard, gratis, to develop freetrack.

3. Ehat about my suggestions

- Make FreeTrack more 'open':
  - portable (WinXP, Vista, W7, Linux, Mac, either x86 and x64);
  - not only for games or simulators (also motion capture, touchscreen, xperiments, etc.);
- make FreeTrack more user-friendly;
- beats Natural Point xD

4. What is needed to do this

a) Enlarge the comunity of users, supporters and developers
- sharing the source code, and with the intent to make freetrack portable to all OS and for other usings, the involved people will augmentate;
- doing a recruiting campaign for the developer comunity searching in comunity of open source game developers, but also non-official modding comunities (think about freefalcon, Openfalcon, etc.);

b) Organizing better the work:
- putting freeTrack with theese goals on LaunchPad;
- adding a wiki with the documentation of usage, source code and algorithms;

c) Creating a comunity intended to write open source drivers (or modifications) to use more friendly the available webcams.

I hope you will take the challenge!!!!!!!!

Carlo

The future is NO HEADSET, like facetracknoir. I think the only way to survive is the use of MicroSoft-Kinect system.  Software is made open for develpments en a new Kinect will be released for Windows.

dutch @ 10/12/2011 - 10h47 a dit:

The future is NO HEADSET, like facetracknoir. I think the only way to survive is the use of MicroSoft-Kinect system.  Software is made open for develpments en a new Kinect will be released for Windows.

this is not precise and responsive like a head tracking with leds, so I think in no way you can replace it.

The kinect is very precise, if developments would occur inhere you can even control your game with a eyebrow!!

I went from Freetrack to Facetracknoir, believe me facetracknoir is much simpler to use and you do not need a complex setup, no not working bluetooth drivers, not Wii mote holder or remove Webcam IR filter.

I'm not going back to freetrack.

dutch @ 13/12/2011 - 18h55 a dit:

The kinect is very precise, if developments would occur inhere you can even control your game with a eyebrow!!

I went from Freetrack to Facetracknoir, believe me facetracknoir is much simpler to use and you do not need a complex setup, no not working bluetooth drivers, not Wii mote holder or remove Webcam IR filter.

I'm not going back to freetrack.

No way to buy a kinect. The freetrack philosofy is to use any existing simple webcam to build a head tracking device, and not spend hundreds of euro to buy a kinect. If, as you said, you will never use freetrack again, why are you on this forum? go Facetracknoir's forum. As I can see from the messages you posted here, you are only sponsoring facetracknoir, and all others are only useless posts.

Why can I not reply here for Freetrack improvements, or is this exclusive for freetrack owners and not for people who have used this?
Last Freetrack is updated on November-2008 BTW!  

Of course you can reply.

But sorry, i've tried both and for shure, Facetracknoir software is yet far away from Freetrack for plane simulators. Perhaps you simply have not find good adjustments.
I agree with you, with Freetrack you need some time to figure out how it works and how to set up good settings. But I even got a Track-ir 4 in a drawer that I don't use, because I cannot find the same good specific settings like in the Freetrack software. (By the way: Track-ir camera works fine with Freetrack too.)