Do It Yourself | Head Tracking | TrackIR | OpenTrack

Hello everyone and welcome back to the channel. Today, I'm going to walk you through how to make your own head tracking hardware without being a professional. Get the TrackIR experience and a significantly reduced price. All the items used can be found below! I hope you enjoy!
Floppy Disk: www.amazon.com/s?k=3.5+floppy...
IR LED: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Resistors: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
USB Batter Pack: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
24g Wire: www.amazon.com/Fermerry-Stran...
TrackIR Clip: www.thingiverse.com/thing:193...
Heat Gun:
www.amazon.com/BLACK-DECKER-H...
Heat Shrink Tubing:
www.amazon.com/625pcs-Shrink-...
PS3 Eye Camera-
WISH: www.wish.com/product/59810d2e...
EBAY: www.ebay.com/i/324436079273?c...
CL Eye Drivers:
codelaboratories.com/products...
OpenTrack Software:
sourceforge.net/projects/open...

[@OverkillSimulations]

Hey Everyone! The CL Eye Driver project is dead! DO NOT BUY IT!! OpenTrack now supports the PS3 Eye Camerra Natively. Follow the instructions below github.com/opentrack/opentrack/wiki/PS3-Eye-open-driver-instructions

[@IPenkovBG]

I wish i read this 15 min ago....

[@OverkillSimulations]

@@IPenkovBG they got me too

[@davidcassidy602]

Heads up: some cheap USB cables don’t respect the color coding inside. If you have a multimeter, I’d recommend plugging the decapitated cable into a USB power pack, or your computer, and testing to confirm the 5V shows up on the red and black wires before you cut any of them away.

[@thomaslee1982]

After years of messing around with my Track IR only to get "close", this tutorial helped me dial it in perfectly. Best I've found. Thank you!

[@dinkmartini3236]

I'm Up! You made my world a better place. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@cyric5083]

Hey, I just made one myself! Soldering for the first time in my life, but it went fine thanks to your tutorial! Now I'm waiting for my PS3 eye camera to arrive to test this out.

[@tomgoffnett5624]

Great tutorial. Thank you for making this. It really helps us all. Liked, subscribed, hit the notification bell.

[@steveparks1197]

Awesome video including the soldering. As soon as I can find someone with a 3D printer, I will be making this clip.

[@fzijlstra2906]

Nice tutorial. Using opentrack for years now and it is very good. Ik have tried alternatives like facetracknoir, but led tracking is still the best solution for head tracking. Tip: mount a USB battery on the top of your headset for true wireless.

[@magicnorm2036]

That is what I was looking for. Thanks

[@philbignell870]

Great video, this will help very much. Thanks

[@lostcause5691]

Thank you very much for this video.

[@clearedtoland72]

Hello, quick question. Great video btw. VERY helpful. Im currently using facetracknoir with a logitech c922 pro. Im very new to head tracking. If you have used this software, do you think I could get better performance with your setup?

[@postalou6802]

nice vidéo , thank's for tips ! .

[@yeyeboi8989]

was just about to pay $140+ and after watching this i know what im gonna pay $40-50 for. Which im so happy about it😁

[@tangotango256]

Awesome job!!! Exactly what i was looking for ... been using Vr but i feel cross eyed after a while and my eyes are strained as well after a long flight ... the Valve index is nice but nothing seems to be sharp and in focus... Mind you i've ordered the track ir even though it's not cheap, and don't have a 3d printer but i've been soldering things since the 70s ..my projects are Guitars ....electric of course and i like instant gratification sometimes no matter the cost to a degree ...Great Video again !! from what i've seen on your presentation the VR headset might just get a little dusty .. but since i have the Alpha and Bravo set i might use the usb cable hack to add lighting to the Quadrant because i can't see the select button position and it has 5 positions alt, vs, hdg, crs and ias some back lighting would've been great but they didn't think of it unfortunately for night flying

[@DenBlackburn]

Well I dont care what you think of your tutorial video, to me its one of the best ive watched in a good while, you explain everything so well, keep up the good work, you have been a great help to me, cheers ;)

[@OverkillSimulations]

Thank you very much! That really means a lot!

[@macnowak933]

Thank you. I buy my custom trackir for 25 dollars on allegro.pl (polish ebay) (modified ps3 camera+clip with ir leds) but u have very detailed software tweaking. I think u can cut this part and make separate video to ppl to see. There is only 2 tutorials worth mentioning. One is on il2 forums and Grim Reapers. But both failed at explained about tweaking mapping for smooth experience. GR have most default, and on i2 they dont cover this very much. So tutorial like this about mapping be very popular. But now ppl will think this is only about build your trackir so i think u miss views. Sorry for my english is not my native language.

[@ijabbs143]

You can mirror the cad image, print it out and glue them together for a smooth look too. Easy to do. I have the .stl if interested

[@aplaceinthesky82]

soldering is really a good skill that I wanted always to learn also because I like to repair electronics. Do you have any nice tutorial or any material about soldering. Do you need to wear any protection for mouth or eyes when soldering?

[@DElkan]

Just bought my PS3 Eye a couple of days ago for $15 on ebay, free ship. They're still out there for cheap.

[@rwhunt99]

My TrackIR camera went Kaput, can I still use the Pro tracking LED's and use a Ps3 eye camera with the open track software? Or, would it be better to just use a Webcam and face tracking? I'm on a strict budget right now, so I can't put out the $150 dollars for a new TrackIR camera.

[@VR_Aviator]

Do you use any type of light filter on the camera?

[@rigger4695]

Good luck trying to get the CL eye driver. just paid for it and the link they sent me to download the driver is bad and there is no way to contact them since you can't even make a account with them. now I have to call the bank and put a stop payment let alone the money I wasted making the IR tracker and modding the ps eye.

[@OverkillSimulations]

Hit me up on Discord!! After reading up on this I don't think OpenTrack needs the driver anymore. Looks like it's standalone now. Continue your build Sir

[@EdJ589]

this might work GREAT with a HMD, yes?

[@hdbrosky5378]

What Resistor size did you use in the video?

[@cjg6064]

I'm assuming a PS4 Eye Camera would work fine?

[@deniskalugin7984]

Why did you connect LEDs in a row, but not in parallel?

[@unclealig]

have i missed it in the video? how to you fixate the clip on your head(phones)?

[@OverkillSimulations]

Velcro or ziptie

[@denis213]

i got ps3 eye driver error:unknown error when i try to start opentrack in fs2020

[@officalflash5534]

what bersion of open track do u have

[@adamrupsis3390]

do you have the link for the stl?

[@igotyoubeat]

Do you still use this setup or have you upgraded to track IR?

[@OverkillSimulations]

Nope. Still use it. Different head piece now but the same software and camera.

[@nator1654]

Where i can find this track program?

[@1965kings]

Yo!

[@zulmbbs]

do i need to mod the ps3 camera?

[@hakankosebas2085]

can it damage the pc components?

[@zulmbbs]

Can we use the normal pc webcam instead of the ps3

[@OverkillSimulations]

I don't think so but I'll try it

[@danpisula3531]

@@OverkillSimulations I'm using a Logitech HD C 270 webcam.

[@fzijlstra2906]

You can, just put some diskette film or camera film in front of the lens. The camera is only 30 FPS though, so the tracking can be a bit jittery.

[@macnowak933]

Main reason for using Ps3 Camera is 75 FPS at 640x480. U have smooth movement. On 30 fps u have not so smooth and jitter from time to time.

[@danpisula3531]

@@macnowak933 ive been useing the camera for about 1yr and I have had pretty good luck with. Seems pretty smooth to me.

[@busterroberts4231]

do you need the flat lens or the round one. please let me know

[@OverkillSimulations]

I would recommend round as you get a wider fov