kcomeby Posted June 15, 2014 Posted June 15, 2014 (edited) Hi guys, When i was trying to do some hand-made head tracker, i come up with an idea, i have an android phone with gyroscope and with help of freetrack, i though maybe i can use the phone for head tracking. Yes, theoretically i can put the phone on my head (attached to hat or something like that), i could use it in DCS world. Ofcourse you can only use rotation but thats not bad i guess. I'm programmer myself so i thought "why not" and now i have very very raw few applications. First is for phone, it basically uses phones gyroscope (you need a phone with gyroscope and Android OS) and send those data to your pc through wifi. So, you don't need a cable, webcam or lights, just put it top of your head and run the application, thats all. Second application is for PC. It's a server. It gets the gyroscope data from your phone and uses FreeTrack within DCS. Like i said, it's only an experimental thing for me and none of the applications are ready for publish, only thing i can say for now is it's working and with some hard work, you can use your phones for head tracking, interesting, isn't it? I've uploaded a video, i haven't worked on smoothing and sensitivity so things are not great but they can be fixed easily (sorry about very very bad quality). Anyways, what do you think about it? Edited June 15, 2014 by kcomeby
Falcon_S Posted June 15, 2014 Posted June 15, 2014 Very helpful, keep it up :thumbup: Quote Немој ништа силом, узми већи чекић! MSI Tomahawk MAX | Ryzen 7 3700x | 32GB DDR4 3200MHz | RX 5700 XT OC Red Dragon 8GB | VPC Throttle CM3 + VPC Constellation ALPHA on VPC WarBRD Base | HP Reverb G2 Youtube | Follow Me on TWITCH!
chaos Posted June 15, 2014 Posted June 15, 2014 I love it. A low cost alternative to trackIR. I'm constantly amazed at people's solutions to everyday problems in tech.... and share it for everyone to use. Thanks, I'd like to give it a try! "It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage..."
kcomeby Posted June 16, 2014 Author Posted June 16, 2014 Well, about spare android phones, phone needs a gyroscope and those phones are expensive, but if you have one you don't need to spend anything.
D4n Posted December 16, 2015 Posted December 16, 2015 Video offline?? :( Need manual for this ASAP! :D This is what I'm really looking for! (until Oculus Rift releases before March 2016 or other good motion sensor VR) DCS Wishlist: 2K11 Krug SA-4 Ganef SAM, VR-TrackIR icons next to player names in score-chart PvP: 100+ manual player-kills with Stingers on a well known dynamic campaign server - 100+ VTOL FARP landings & 125+ hours AV-8B, F-14 crew, royal dutch airforce F-16C - PvP campaigns since 2013 DCS server-admins: please adhere to a common sense gaming industry policy as most server admins throughout the industry do. (After all there's enough hostility on the internet already which really doesn't help anyone. Thanks.) Dell Visor VR headset, Ryzen 5 5600 (6C/12T), RTX 2060 - basic DCS-community rule-of-thumb: Don't believe bad things that a PvP pilot claims about another PvP pilot without having analyzed the existing evidence
Sokol1_br Posted December 18, 2015 Posted December 18, 2015 Build your "gyroscopic" HeadTrack with ~20$: http://www.edtracker.org.uk/index.php/diy/build-it/breadboard
D4n Posted December 19, 2015 Posted December 19, 2015 What? Soldering? Will it work with Raspberry Pi or only that "Arduino" ? Which sensors are in there? DCS Wishlist: 2K11 Krug SA-4 Ganef SAM, VR-TrackIR icons next to player names in score-chart PvP: 100+ manual player-kills with Stingers on a well known dynamic campaign server - 100+ VTOL FARP landings & 125+ hours AV-8B, F-14 crew, royal dutch airforce F-16C - PvP campaigns since 2013 DCS server-admins: please adhere to a common sense gaming industry policy as most server admins throughout the industry do. (After all there's enough hostility on the internet already which really doesn't help anyone. Thanks.) Dell Visor VR headset, Ryzen 5 5600 (6C/12T), RTX 2060 - basic DCS-community rule-of-thumb: Don't believe bad things that a PvP pilot claims about another PvP pilot without having analyzed the existing evidence
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