Price: $155.99
(as of Dec 29, 2024 23:45:14 UTC - Details)

Put your head in the game! TrackIR is a cutting edge experience that makes you part of the game.Now your game knows exactly where you are sitting,leaing, and looking, in true 3d space! Take your PC gaming to astonishing new levels of realism and immersion. Bring your game view to life!, Field of view 51.7 degree, Response time 9 ms.
Increased realism enhances your game experience through subtle immersion. Note:Item does not include TrackClip PRO.
Reviewer: mp910mx
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Got it to work on late 2014 Macbook Pro Retina with X plane 10
Review: Works great. After a couple hours researching and getting the information together, I was able to install this program called LinuxTrack onto my Macbook pro, move a file or two around, and that was it really. You can fine tune the sensitivities to your liking in the LinuxTrack program, and then go into X plane 10 and use it. You do not need to check the "trackir5" box in the devices tab inside the Xplane 10 game. That wasn't necessary for me. Trackir5 has 3 functions once inside X plane 10, and you will need to assign them to 3 different buttons on your keyboard before the Trackir5 will start to work in the game. The 3 buttons are Pause, Recenter, and the other is simple the on/off switch of the head tracking device. You will be using the recenter button all the way, so I made it my space bar which is convenient. The on/off button will be used quite a bit too which just allows you to go back and forth in-game between using the head tracking, and not using it. I've found that when using just a single 27 inch monitor, the utility of this head tracking device is OK, but not what I really hoped for. Definitely still useful in some areas though. You have to set the sensitivities really low, or else you will be just jumbling the screen around quite a bit. If you have any flight radios, multi panels, switch panels etc., anything that causes you to lean forward and off to the left or right during in game use of the trackir5, the screen will obviously follow your head, and it can get a little aggravating sometimes. I find that I only turn on the tracking device when I'm taxing on runways, mid-flight to look around a little, or when I'm doing a VFR landing and I want to look to my left while flying downwind parallel to the runway. The biggest smile that I get from using trackir5 is when I'm able to just sit up tall in my seat and look up over the dash to get a better view of the approaching runway. That is really nice and convenient to be able to do that while your hands are on a yoke and throttle quadrant. Other than that though I don't use it too much. It comes with the hat clip, which I taped on top of a pair of good headphones and it seemed to work OK. I bought the track clip pro made by trackir. I can't say for sure if it actually works better than the hat clip or not, but it clips right on the side of my headphones now which is 10 times better than taping the hat clip to headphones. Overall it's still great and I'm glad that I bought it because it definitely has its place even with a single monitor. If you have budget limitations though, and using a single monitor, I would recommend putting this at the bottom of the list when considering flight yoke, throttles, radios, etc. Just my opinion. Good luck.

Reviewer: HBar
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Highly adaptable input system
Review: The TrackIR 5 system gives the user a refined, packaged product. It works as advertised and will not disappoint you. You may regret the purchase only because of its current expense, but you will be getting the best for any driving or flight simulator. Its primary technical advantage is the high framerate and precision of the black-and-white infrared camera, 120 FPS, with limited computer resources consumed. That is why a webcam and some free tracking software are an inferior solution for precise head-tracking; until webcam technology and prices improve, low-end webcams cannot give the same performance.TrackIR can detect changes in the orientation of the tracking clip of hundredths of degrees, and millimeters of spatial movement: less than what a human brain would readily perceive. You may alter the subsequent math and functions of the raw input for use in your program. If you take half an hour to customize and fine-tune the default settings included with TrackIR, you adapt the technology to you, not you to the technology.It's not as though you need to track your head, either. Put it on your foot, or put it on your swivel chair, or put it on your cat if you trust her to help you play. You can pause tracking at any time with a simple hotkey.It is partially because of its actual precision that NaturalPoint has intentionally limited its usefulness outside of the pre-defined supported games and generic "Mouse Emulation" executable which attempts to give basic mouse emulation for programs not officially supported but which will not allow usage of the mouse in non-games. The TrackIR hardware and software are, however, technically capable of full emulation for a desktop mouse or a joystick, but the methods of implementing this present something of a moral dilemma: adapting the TrackIR system into a general-use mouse means that NaturalPoint's much more expensive head-tracking package for the disability market is much less attractive and exclusive (e.g. for someone unable to use an ordinary optical mouse), but so severely limiting the system's function means that casual buyers are restricted from using their purchase to its full potential.So, if someone were to use TrackIR and some programmable input emulation software for the purpose of adapting TrackIR into a device usable in any situation with its full, ultra-precise "6 degrees of freedom", then I suppose that's "hacking" in the hobbyist sense of the word, but it would be an affront to the engineers and investors who put so much work and money into developing TrackIR into the wonderful gaming controller that it is.Yet, TrackIR is capable of so much more if only the tools to do these things were available as part of the proprietary package. TrackIR is to head-tracking as Microsoft Windows is to operating systems: you get a good, polished product that tends to work, but nerds complain on the internet about how closed it is. It's like buying a car and discovering that its maximum speed is governed to never exceed the speed limit, and then one day you open up the hood and see the governor laxly tied on with a "do not remove" sign. You paid for it. What you do is up to you.

Reviewer: Marighnamani K.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: As the tagline of the product and my title suggests, it’s perfect tool to have if you’re into simulations. Adds more immersion to the sims, especially for flight simulators like DCS and MS FS. Must own if you’re a simmer like me.

Reviewer: Scotty McLean
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I tried FacetrackNoIR for a few hours, thought it was really cool and gave me a taste of what headtracking would be like. But it was jittery and just not anywhere close to the level of precision I wanted.Ordered TrackIR5 a few days later after debating whether it would be worth the price and I'm happy to say I have absoloutly no regrets. I'm just using the basic trackclip that came with the product on a hat. Curves were solid out of the box and only needed like 10 seconds of tweeking on the Y-axis for me to work as I wanted. You're paying for the solid plug-and-play software just as much as you are the hardware itself.I've been using it with FSX;SE and the Chaseplane camera addon. Practicing GA patternwork has become a million times better now and just tracking your turn out on to final with your head feels amazing. In additon, I can look down to quickly access buttons and switches that before required me to hit buttons on my keyboard to swap to pre-set camera angles. If anything I just wish the mount was better suited for my laptop's thin screen. It works fine but is a tiny bit loose as it was designed for thicker bulkier monitors. It's sits okay but only at its most extreme position. Luckily the mount is magnetized and independent of the actual IR sensor / blaster meaning I can likely 3D print a new mount for my laptop or something.Otherwise tracks great, easy setup. Solid precision and absoloutly 0 un-wanted jitter or head movement out of the box. I suggest you try FacetrackNoIR to get a sense of what head tracking is and then purchase TrackIR after. It'll totally change the way you sim.Here are hopes we get TIR5 support for Flight Simulator 2020. For me its a far better solution than VR as I still get to run the sim at 1080p without it looking blurry like in VR (for me that also means less motion sickness). And overall significantly less money. I'd 100% recommend this product if you take sims even remotely seriously.

Reviewer: Cliente de Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Le doy 5 estrellas pues cumplió al 100 mis expectativas de uso, lo compre pues estaba buscando tener mas movilidad en el manejo de los actuales simuladores de juegos, ya que los mas grandes y mejores exigen mas maniobrabilidad de operación de una maquina, en mi caso de aviones y camiones, y tenia que ocupar al mismo tiempo teclado ,joystick y el mouse para manejar la cámara, y era muy complicado y fuera de lo mas cercano a una simulación real, Y con este aparatito me acercó casi al 100 la simulación en juegos de Pc, Muy contento con mi compra y el servicio prestado al 100 a mis requerimientos por ella. es muy fácil de usar, se calibra con una tecla automáticamente y no te complicas tanto. Y lo recibí muy a tiempo con excelente atención de ambas partes.

Reviewer: Ricky@AWS
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I knew about trackir for years but only now I decided to get it as I play a lot of Arma3 and want to get into DCS and Elite Dangerous.With Arma3 I’m loving it, I think all other games will equally be better for using this awesome tool!

Reviewer: Dominik
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: La mise en place est aisée, nécessite un peu de paramétrage spécifique au jeu pour lequel on l'utilise et un court instant d'adaptation est nécessaire. Mais l'immersion est impressionnante, au point ou il m'est difficile de jouer sans.Je l'utilise pour les jeux Arma, Elite Dangerous et GRID : Autosport.