Head tracking is a gamechanger for flying or driving games. I’ve used opentrack successfully with Star Citizen via lutris but have been struggling to get it working for steam games. LookPilot seems to work well and is fairly cheap but isn’t FOSS. I know there are loads of other alternatives so I’m wondering what have you found that works well?
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There’s a little manual wheel under the LED display on really old models but with newer models it can be done digitally with the remote control.
Wait. Where am I. What year is this? This isn’t about VCRs at all!
(Apologies for the joke. I couldn’t resist.)
Head tracking is a gamechanger for flying or driving games
I feel like if I was playing Forza with head tracking I would get frustrated by my poor driving skills.
I use TrackIR.
To play a flight sim, I have to connect a joystick, throttle, pedals, and TrackIR. My throttle is a part of a HOTAS that’s so old and obscure, driver installation on Windows 10 can be tricky. So I don’t want to attempt to get all this gear running on Linux. So I keep Win10 on an SSD and hang my head in shame.
You’d be surprised. Linux is where good hardware goes to live forever.
For example, the super weird “Sidewinder Strategic Commander” runs out of the box on Linux. A Microsoft device. That got its drivers deprecated after XP SP2, runs today on new kernels without doing anything
“old and obscure” tends to be where Linux shines. It’s possible the driver is already in-kernel. What is it?
I have a TrackIR for American Truck Sim, and I’ve just not played it since switchinf to Linux. I’m waiting for the Steam Frame ro release so I can switch to that
For MSFS 2024 I use the Windows version of opentrack, just installed inside the proton prefix using protontricks (use the exe.xml trick to launch it at startup).
For steam you need to run a second opentrack inside the container. There’s a writeup somewhere in opentrack issues for that
Edit: https://github.com/opentrack/opentrack/issues/1260#issuecomment-881908297
I don’t really do that stuff, but I suppose if I did, I’d use my Vive. You could probably pick up a used one for fairly cheap.
I have been using LinuxTrack, but it’s something of a pain to get working right.
LookPilot might not be FOSS but it just works in my experience.
The most I’ve had to do once, for Arma 3, was change my compatibility to Proton instead of the CachyOS version. Other than that it’s just been plug and play.
I use opentrack for steam games including Dirt Rally 2 and BeamNG
I don’t know, but I really like seen whatever @bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de cooks at !diysimulators@discuss.tchncs.de , so just tagging him in case he has any recommendations
