I'm starting this thread following a little discussion on EDTracker started in the BRC - Yggdrasil race thread, not nice to derail a thread when a brand new rail can be built for it. 
Main advantages it gives are the roll indeed (not really necessary, but adds that bit more of free head movement that helps with immersion), but mostly for me the possibility to keep the mouse widget (the little dot in the center of the screen) enabled with freelook, something that doesn't seem possible using only the EDTracker UI. I also agree with jumpingclear on the better response curves and filtering, but this is also a very subjective matter so your mileage may vary with that.
At least with my Pro Wireless there's no need to swirl it around each session, you really only have to do it once before first use to calibrate the magnetometer and it's good to go, the only thing suggested to be done before every session is to "set it level", that is to leave it stationary on a flat surface while doing the set level calibration from the UI. Takes about 5-10 seconds, totally straightforward. Of course, after some very hard/sudden movement, or especially when removing it from the head or going AFK with it or when turning head during game lock-ups (memory swapping, alt-tabbing) the centering may go totally off, in this case you only need to align your view to screen center again and press "reset view" (better having a hotkey assigned for that), a couple of seconds and your headtracking is spot-on again.
A very annoying glitch I experienced yesterday was a complete screwing of the centering when looking at my right past a certain angle, all good up to a point, a fraction of a degree past that and the in-game view locked it self all to the right, while the head in the EDTracker UI actually made a full 180°. Still possible to look forward and left smoothly, but on the right it seemed like a magnet that locked your view to it as soon as you were near enough. Stop-starting Opentrack and resetting the view in EDT UI resolved the situation but only for the first seconds, then it started again.
At first I thought it was Opentrack's fault, but then after closing everything I noticed that the tracker was doing all of this on its own, but only while in-game. Starting the tracking outside of the game didn't create the problem. I tried again after a complete reboot of the pc, starting the game with only the EDT UI, and the problem didn't reappear.
Anyone experienced something similar?
Jewelled flowers are soooo old-fashion, leopard-spotted is the trend straight from the future:
Our misses must be really proud of us, eh. [smile]
Good indeed
Just getting the hang of it for now with the simple fetch trips required for the blot...I already tried head-tracked driving/fliving many months ago when I tinkered with the DIY smartphone solution, found it quite a lot disorienting but it was nowhere near the level of precision/response/comfort of the Edtracker, I suppose it will be a totally different business now.
First impressions so far, this thing does everything it says on the tin: very well made and gives a solid impression, literally just need to plug in the dongle, flip the switch on the box and it's ready to go, absolutely spot-on precision, no noticeable lag or drift. Initial calibration of gyros and magnetometer is very straightforward and the proprietary software UI is extremely simple to manage. The only thing that required a good bit of fiddling so far has been making it work properly with Opentrack, not mandatory but absolutely necessary to enable the roll axis in ED and give a proper free headlook feel.
And as an additional plus, now I look totally smashing when making creaky noises with my toy hotas while wearing my better half's leopard-spotted, glittery headband with a scrunchie holding the tiny box on top. I'm the fashionable stuff of nightmares.
Main advantages it gives are the roll indeed (not really necessary, but adds that bit more of free head movement that helps with immersion), but mostly for me the possibility to keep the mouse widget (the little dot in the center of the screen) enabled with freelook, something that doesn't seem possible using only the EDTracker UI. I also agree with jumpingclear on the better response curves and filtering, but this is also a very subjective matter so your mileage may vary with that.
At least with my Pro Wireless there's no need to swirl it around each session, you really only have to do it once before first use to calibrate the magnetometer and it's good to go, the only thing suggested to be done before every session is to "set it level", that is to leave it stationary on a flat surface while doing the set level calibration from the UI. Takes about 5-10 seconds, totally straightforward. Of course, after some very hard/sudden movement, or especially when removing it from the head or going AFK with it or when turning head during game lock-ups (memory swapping, alt-tabbing) the centering may go totally off, in this case you only need to align your view to screen center again and press "reset view" (better having a hotkey assigned for that), a couple of seconds and your headtracking is spot-on again.
A very annoying glitch I experienced yesterday was a complete screwing of the centering when looking at my right past a certain angle, all good up to a point, a fraction of a degree past that and the in-game view locked it self all to the right, while the head in the EDTracker UI actually made a full 180°. Still possible to look forward and left smoothly, but on the right it seemed like a magnet that locked your view to it as soon as you were near enough. Stop-starting Opentrack and resetting the view in EDT UI resolved the situation but only for the first seconds, then it started again.
At first I thought it was Opentrack's fault, but then after closing everything I noticed that the tracker was doing all of this on its own, but only while in-game. Starting the tracking outside of the game didn't create the problem. I tried again after a complete reboot of the pc, starting the game with only the EDT UI, and the problem didn't reappear.
Anyone experienced something similar?
Jewelled flowers are soooo old-fashion, leopard-spotted is the trend straight from the future:
Our misses must be really proud of us, eh. [smile]
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