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TrackIR accomplishes the task that many people seem to think only a vr headset can give them: Headtracking freelook immersion; they are extremely comparable. A

TrackIR accomplishes the task that many people seem to think only a vr headset can give them: Headtracking freelook immersion; they are extremely comparable. And binocular depth perception is only one method of depth perception.. edit: > or that things can happen in places that aren't in front of you > TrackIR doesn't magically make you able to look over your shoulder. No idea how to decipher this: I have no issue looking around in any of the games I use trackIR with. It gives you the exact same freedom of input it just doesn't seal me off from being able to see what's going on irl around me.

rowanG077 6y ago
This is simply not true. TrackIR doesn't give you freelook immersion. It allows you to slightly tilt or move your head. To call that freelook is disingenuous.
- sornaensis 6y ago
  False, you have three axis panning as well as pitch, yaw and roll.
  - rowanG077 6y ago
    Which one of those is not your head tilting or moving slightly?
ebg13 6y ago
> I have no issue looking around in any of the games I use trackIR with So you have screens behind you? And above you? And to either side of you? And at other odd angles? Suddenly your $200 is looking a lot more expensive, otherwise you're comparing apples to plastic oranges. Screen coverage for _actual_ free look would cost many times more than an HMD, take up many times more space, and it will _still_ be feeding the same image to both eyes unless you use 3D goggles which is yet another expense (a very significant one if you don't want your framerate to crater because you've just cut your display Hz in half). > It gives you the exact same freedom of input This is blatantly false. Freedom offered by motion tracking is restricted to screen space. A VR HMD integrates a full sphere of stereoptic screen space, something that you're deliberately ignoring.
- sornaensis 6y ago
  It is blatantly true unless you have never used it. If I look left or right I can.. look left and right. That includes looking behind myself if I turn far enough, and no your view doesn’t leave the screen that’s the point, what. You don’t track 1:1 that’s the entire point. You’ve no clue what you’re on about. An array of monitors would make tracking moot if I had such a setup.

rowanG077 6y ago

This is simply not true. TrackIR doesn't give you freelook immersion. It allows you to slightly tilt or move your head. To call that freelook is disingenuous.

sornaensis 6y ago
False, you have three axis panning as well as pitch, yaw and roll.
- rowanG077 6y ago
  Which one of those is not your head tilting or moving slightly?

ebg13 6y ago

> I have no issue looking around in any of the games I use trackIR with So you have screens behind you? And above you? And to either side of you? And at other odd angles? Suddenly your $200 is looking a lot more expensive, otherwise you're comparing apples to plastic oranges. Screen coverage for _actual_ free look would cost many times more than an HMD, take up many times more space, and it will _still_ be feeding the same image to both eyes unless you use 3D goggles which is yet another expense (a very significant one if you don't want your framerate to crater because you've just cut your display Hz in half). > It gives you the exact same freedom of input This is blatantly false. Freedom offered by motion tracking is restricted to screen space. A VR HMD integrates a full sphere of stereoptic screen space, something that you're deliberately ignoring.

sornaensis 6y ago
It is blatantly true unless you have never used it. If I look left or right I can.. look left and right. That includes looking behind myself if I turn far enough, and no your view doesn’t leave the screen that’s the point, what. You don’t track 1:1 that’s the entire point. You’ve no clue what you’re on about. An array of monitors would make tracking moot if I had such a setup.