TRACK IR headaches!

[ollk22]

Hi folks, so managed to get a PS3 camera today. Within 25 minutes of being home, I had removed the IR filter and thrown my son of the PC with great anticipation!

 

So firstly managed to install a working copy of CL eyetest. Get an image, fantastic, all good.

 

 

Then the problems!

 

Try Freetrack 2.2, select the camera and boom, crashes. I understand I need a patch for this but can I find a patch online at all? Nope!

 

So then I try opentrack and wow, I am seeing an image with circles all over the place and lots of bouncing numbers. I figure this is going well now... But then!

 

So I entered the dimensions of my headset, and noticed the camera refresh was about 35Hz which I thought was a bit slow.. So I increased to the advertised 75hz...

 

I kept playing around, but when I clicked ok, the camera image went blank and the numbers stopped moving... :-(

 

Interestingly, in settings I am still getting about 17fps from the camera, but the red flickers...

 

The camera still works with eyetest though!

 

Anyone help me please?

[ollk22]

Hmm back to 30hz (I thought it was 32) and it works... Is this right?

[Rudel_chw]

Hi,

 

You dont really have a TrackIR device, you are using a generic Headtracking .. less expensive but harder to configure.

 

I have the same Webcam as you do, the Sony PS3 Eye, these are my settings:

 

 

Your's may look different, it depends on exactly what modification you did to its IR filter.

 

For the headtracking software, I tried the ones you mention: Opentrack and Freetrack, but in the end I liked more another one: FacetrackNoIR .. my current settings are:

 

 

I used for a time a higher resolution (640x480) and also tried higher Hz (90) .. it works, but the cpu utilization is higher so in the end I returned to 320x240 and 60 Hz.

 

On this video you can see how these settings work for me, in terms of smoothnes and lack of jitter:

 

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Hope you can get your setup working properly.