Hello FlightGear developers, In the FlightGear forum I stumbled upon a request from users, to enable head tracking in FlightGear (head tracking that is i.e. provided by Freetrack or TrackIR). Until now, I found no evidence that someone has embraced this request, so I would like to jump in...
As you may know, the mentioned 'head trackers' have one great disadvantage: they require the user to wear a hat (or something similar) with Infrared LED's attached to it, to enable tracking. Recently I have made a head tracking program, based on the FaceAPI from SeeingMachines, which ONLY requires a simple web cam. By now, we only support the Freetrack-protocol (which is open-source) and are seriously testing it with ArmA 2 (actually, the first attempt gives really promising results). On the FlightGear forum, I found a reference to a program made by Anders Gidenstam (http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/HeadTracking/) in which he states that it is possible to send UDP-packets to FlightGear, with head tracking data in it. I am currently implementing his information in my program (which I call FaceTrackNoIR, by the way) and I think I can start testing the results soon. There is, however, one problem: I have no experience whatsoever with FlightGear. Could someone tell me, in a brief manner, how I can enable FlightGear so that it will listen to my UDP-packets? It would also help, if someone could tell me what data FlightGear expects in the packets... Thanks in advance. Regards, Wim Vriend Holland P.S.: The FaceAPI version I use, requires the software to be 'open source' (i.e. non-commercial). I am planning on publishing FaceTrackNoIR eventually, when beta-testing is done... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
