according to Wikipedia: "At NaturalPoint's request, FreeTrack project members removed the strings from the software they provide to end users. FreeTrack then implemented a workaround which creates a local copy of these strings from the client software when used with TrackIR Enhanced titles. FreeTrack project members argue that copyright is not violated in this case since it may fall under the provision of 17 U.S.C. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_17_of_the_United_States_Code> ยง 117 <http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/117.html> "
Though it then follows mentioning that more recent versions of the TrackIR software uses encryption to communicate with games and such to try to kick Freetrack out of the way again, but there are workarounds to make some of the new programs be compatible with Freetrack again. I have no experience with TrackIR's own programs, but you mentioned that you can't look left without having the monitor be out of your field of view, Freetrack can map all the axis, so you can look left without having to use mirrors to ses the monitor, you can actually look 180 degrees or more without ever moving anything bellow the neck and still keep the monitor in plain sight easily, hell, you can look to the bottom of the screen and have the view go past showing your avatar feet and seeing what is behind you upside down :P ps:extreme pitch angles tend to be restricted in many engines, either for arbitrary reasons or for technical ones, like gimbal lock and such) Jan Ciger escreveu: > > Natural Point" requested us to remove Track-IR" cameras support from > FreeTrack. > > So it even doesn't work with it. I guess they were using the SDK which > has a rather restrictive license, so Natural Point has shut them down. > Their cameras use proprietary protocol (how nice! :( ), so there is not > much they can do. > > Regards, > > Jan _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
