Track IR in action | A simple demonstration in several flight simulators 

I wish more people included the face view as part of the review. It really helps a lot to get a sense of the amount of movement required to get this effect.

if youre also a truck driving enthusiast (ATS and ETS2), then this works to facilitate observation at junctions and in general. very useful for realistic driving

If only that monitor can move with your head😂

Awesome. Very informative and Thank You. Great flying and gorgeous scenery too. Thanks again.

Can u use the mouse to look around while track ir is active ?

nice vid!

Is it easy enough to see the screen when looking all the way left or right, or even slightly to the rear out the windows ?

Gosh u just convinced me to put an order for the TrackIR 5! Seems so natural I think it will definitely be a game changer for me! The only thing negative is that I'll need to wear a cap while flying :(

Can you use this in conjunction with your joystick hat mapped to view control? I’m thinking particularly for ‘checking your 6’ - use the hat, but when facing forward naturally using head movement to look more closely. The whole ‘turning your head but looking straight ahead’ thing looks...uncomfortable

Grazie amico 😉💪

Those War Thunder clips must be years old, its better than that these days. Adjust your settings too so things aren't so wobbly and sensitive Im on PS4 and wish i could get trackir or something similar and reliable. Its hard work on gamepad but ive gotten used to it. For me to look around i have to click in the right stick, hold it down while tracking enemies and flying with left stick. I lose out on rudder but i hardly ever need it in a dogfight anyway. TrackIR would be a game changer

the head movement with eyes forward does look awkward but since you love it I guess not

Thanks ...I just subscribed. I have one coming in from Amazon in a couple weeks. How do you think it will perform on a huge triple screen setup? I'm running 43 inch (4 K) TV's on a RTX 3080.

Can I adjust it to make it like I looking through the window? It seems weird with all the head turning but still keeping your eyes straight

this is great

Can you increase lateral sensitivity so that looking to the right or left a little moves the screen more so you don’t have to strain as much?

do you not need anything to be attached to your head? or was that just for older models? which model are you using anyway? :)

Though the video is nice, the creator had a terrible setup to his trackir. the motion-multiplier, the speed and smoothness of the tracking can be individuelly adjusted in 6 degrees of motion....

So if you are using VR headset and you have to press buttons in the cockpit, do you have to grab the VR controller (that is if you can find it) to to press the button? Whereas, if you are using the trackir you can see your keyboard and mouse right away.

Sooo, how do you look behind you?

How will you be able to see what your looking at on the monitor, when you look left and right? This would cause you to be facing away from the monitor, so how does this work?

Jet noise and tech, what's not to love?

Still don’t understand how this works. If you look left it obviously tracks left but then you’re not looking at the monitor?

You know that if you *reduce the angle* of your motion response you won't be cranking your head this much -> 2:50 anymore, right?

But, this requires you to look at the screen ... I mean when looking to the left the tracking will follow but you won't be able to see it properly as you will have to glance at the display from the corner of your eye ...

Opentrack would be a way of doing the same without buying a $150 gadget. It uses a webcam and it will track your head, lights or a QR style sticker on a cap.

looks like a prototype of a VR

Do you ever get eye strain from turning your head but still focusing your eyes on your screen? Turning head left and right but still looking at monitor

I can tell that your monitor subtends a small apparent angle. That is, the screen is one or both of small size and/or is located far away. How do I know? Because with even a fairly small panning angle of your head, I can see your eyes swivel so as to keep the screen (more properly, the subject of interest) in sight. I would guess your screen width subtends something like a 30 degree apparent angle. I use a reasonably large screen, and the monitor is set up pretty close to me as well. The result is an apparent angular width approaching 90 degrees. The benefits are two-fold: 1) The image scale is not much different from reality at my usual wide FoV, which has a significant impact on immersion. It makes for another reason to look favorably toward head tracking vs a VR headset. (If VR panning is scaled 1:1, that means MUCH more head swivelling, which can be more tiring.) 2) When I pan around with my TrackIR, my eyes do not have to swivel to any meaningful degree. Even when I am looking toward the virtual rear, my eyes-straight gaze has my eyes looking about 2/3 of the way from screen center to edge. By not having to keep swiveling my eyes in their sockets just to keep the subject under foveal vision, eye fatigue is not an issue.

Cool, does this cause the same motion sickness VR causes?

lol the guys shoulder-shooting over the top of your plane (when you were flying the Bf-109) trying to steal your kill deserved to be shot when they flew in front of you ... I'd have lit them up with 20mm cannons and had some words with them XD

CAN YOU USE TRAC R ON X BOX

What VR headsets are in the realm of "thousands"?

or mobile phone, with cardboard front/holders

The guy looks like agent Pena from Narcos.

I suppose looking behind at your six o'clock is impossible since you'll have to turn your head and take eyes away from the screen

Buen vídeo joy😉😉👌👌

Works on console???

How many times will you stall every plane? Figure it out man

Does it work on il2 1946?

Hehe. If you enjoy it feel free to subscribe. I did. Hey if you enjoy me enjoying it feel free to send me one of those bad boys :D

holy shit, ive never seen anything like this....

How does he see ? Shouldn't he just have a screen on his eyes at least

Can I set this up on Xbox?

The release of the Quest 2 is going to put the final nail in the coffin of Track IR. There is no comparison to the immersion and efficiency of using a VR headset to fly a plane. Track IR was a nice option for decent resolution and simulated VR, but it still fell short. Now VR is cheaper or the same price as trackIR. lol

POV: Lookin for videos on how to set up the track IR and every. single. youtuber. has the track IR on the side of their face we cant see

You look like you're having a stroke or something but overall great review. Thank you

As someone who would simply kill to have a VR or track IR, I just have to refuse as I’m only a kid and I don’t want to act selfish and I want everything in the world.cuz my dad and relatives got a good PC for msfs2020.and that is already enough..so maybe I’ll stick to Microsoft flight sim and warthunder 😓

Just curious...... How do you look out the window that you have turned to when the screen no longer is in your line of sight? This concept is stupid

I'd rather get VR, so you don't move your head and have to look at weird angles and crap. lol

so you have to turn your head and turn your eyes the other way to see what's on the monitor ... that sounds too painful and barely useful

That would annoy me ahah

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When you look backwards how can you even see your monitor? 🤣

Track ir sucks i have track ir 1 and 3 both are rubbish.

Please dont call War Thunder a sim. Its an insult to the people who spent thousand of hours on making actual plane models in dcs, unlike those shitty toy airplanes in war thunder

Is it hard to keep your eye on the screen while turning your head?