Head Tracker

Head Tracking with your iPhone

Published by: John Yu
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Description

Head Tracker uses iPhone’s front-facing TrueDepth camera to provide responsive and accurate 6DOF (degree of freedom) head tracking input to opentrack. Allowing users to enjoy flight and driving simulation games without expensive hardware or wearing uncomfortable headsets.
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Supported Devices (iPhone X and newer)
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This app requires device with TrueDepth camera or Devices with A12 or later processors: iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE(2nd Gen), iPad Pro (2nd Gen) are supported.
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Features
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- 6 DOF
- Connects over wifi network, no need for cables
- No need to wear any uncomfortable head tracking headsets
- Accurate and responsive (up to 60fps)
- simple to setup
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opentrack supported games includes:
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- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- FSX
- DCS World
- Star Citizen
- Elite: Dangerous
- IL2
- Euro Truck
- and more.
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Customer Reviews
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"Installation took a couple of minutes on the PC and after the latest update is now smooth as butter. Looking forward to more improvements! Works perfectly on Euro Truck and other racing sims I play like Assetto Corsa etc"
"I sold my TrackIR headset some years ago and missed it now in the new Flight Simulator - and guess what: this is combined with opentrack the ideal replacement. It “just works” and is easy to set up. Fair pricing. 5 stars. Thank you, John."
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How to use:
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- Open Head Tracker app on your iPhone, set your PC's IP address, then start
- Launch opentrack application on your PC, select "Network over UDP" and the "freetrack 2.0" protocol, and press start
- Start your favourite simulator game, it will now follow you head movements in the virtual cockpit.
Visit https://jbcconsulting448679429.wordpress.com/head-tracking-quick-start/ for detailed instructions and download opentrack preset profile.
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Versions (Free and in-app purchase)
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Try out the free version. The free version allows you to play for 10 minutes per session, you can restart to extend the trial.
Upgrade to the full version via in-app purchase to remove trial limit and automatic screen dimming to reduce battery usage.
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More Information and Support
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Visit https://jbcconsulting448679429.wordpress.com for more tips, network setup and troubleshooting instruction on configuring head tracking, and contact me for support.
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£1.99

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User Rating

3.4 out of 5

15 ratings in United Kingdom

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Head Tracker Reviews

Tracking not great

JMC.127 on

United Kingdom

Tracking was incredibly shaky despite good lighting and positioning of the phone. Struggled to read the text on the control panels of the planes I was flying while using this. Wouldn’t recommend buying

Does not work

stillwaitingforever on

United Kingdom

Cannot get this to work, tried everything and want my money back.. disappointing

Nice app

Aaron_44 on

United Kingdom

Cool app. Tried using it for star citizen head tracking but the app doesn’t seem to work well in the dark. Playing with lights on is a bit immersion breaking for me so I stopped using. Dev could try using the IR camera in the app which would solve my issues.

Couldn’t get to work

Haulfryn884 on

United Kingdom

I followed the tutorial video and the free trail ran out before it would work. I’m not paying for something that’s so awkward to install not knowing if it will even work.

Brilliant once working

Hitchhiker-3000 on

United Kingdom

This app just kept saying the host is not responding at first, after searching about I could not find anything that fixed the issue. However after reading about connection issues for another app I have discovered a setting called Wi-fi assist. If you get the same issues turn this off! It’s making you connect to your mobile data network instead of your Wi-fi and thus breaking this otherwise brilliant app! Hopefully this is added to the help section so future users don’t struggle to get it working.

Great

egzplicit on

United Kingdom

Works great in combination with opentrack. As smooth as using my VR HMD as source. A suggestion: add an option to make the screen black to reduce battery usage or possible screen burn on oled displays.

Excellent

Star1child on

United Kingdom

A wonderful piece of software (App) that does exactly what it intends too. With this app installed on your iPhone or iPad that has a “3D depth camera” (the Face ID camera on iPhones X and up, and iPad models that have the 3D depth Face ID camera)... and also the required receiving software on PC, then your good to go and it works straight-of-the-cuff in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 without even touching any settings in Flight Simulator 2020. There are instructions on the internet to set this up and for downloading and setting up the software required in the PC end (OpenTrack software unless mistaken). The only initial critical settings that must be done after the softwares have been setup up to communicate, is the mapping curves. It works! My only experienced disadvantage so far, is that the tracked movements in the sim are not quite as smooth as they should be, but this is clearly “not” the App. The app shows your face on the iPhone/iPad with 3D axis displayed and one can see that it is ultra smooth and accurate. I suspect the issue is with the PC, and/or Flight Simulator 2020 and/or network.

Excellent tracking software

Snufflupagus on

United States

I’ve used facetracking as well as home-made IR solutions for head tracking, but this works very well using the iPhone’s excellent camera. Very smooth (providing your OpenTrack setup is set right). Also make sure iPhone camera is set to shoot 60fps video for best performance. I would only suggest adding an option to turn the screen off when tracking is on and just show the tracking axis. It’s handy to see yourself when initially testing the app, but after a while it’s just distracting to have your face looking out at you while you game.

请添加一个会一直显示的旋转按钮

Student of chinese unversity on

United States

使用该软件headtracker时,我的设备通常是横屏状态,但是无论我关闭或者打开ipad的旋转锁定,在该软件中摄像头始终按照竖屏来摄像,导致该软件获得的视场很小,而且大部分情况下,我无法调整摄像头的竖屏摄像方式(软件自身的旋转按钮不显示),请在软件当中添加一个一直显示的按钮来让我调整摄像头为横屏摄象 When using the software headtracker, my device is usually in landscape, but no matter if I turn off or turn on the rotation lock on my ipad, the camera always shoots in portrait in the software, which results in a very small field of view that the software gets, and most of the time I can't adjust the camera to shoot in portrait (the software's own rotate button doesn't show up), so please add add a button to the software that is always displayed to allow me to adjust the camera to landscape orientation.

I have a Problem

Hamburger737 on

United States

When I start the app and open track it does not read my video on my phone and it says “no video” on my pc. I don’t know if I need to do something else to fix it.

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