Ah… because I was looking up or down in the game as well? I didn’t tweak the input curves for SC, unlike I did in the last video with Diaspora. The rest is perspective. I looked slightly upwards when I calibrated OpenTrack, which is a more comfortable position for me. The floating image should be way higher to match that but that’d be outside of the camera view.

You know… I wondered about this before too and I tried to lower the seating position through manipulation of the Y value before and while this works to some extend => it’s not really possible to look over the fuselage any more so I guess it’s a compromise (or you’d be simply unable to aim at anything in the game).

I was briefly offended but then I noticed this is about Beko Electronics 🤓

Yes, I this person could have blindly just cut together every head moment leaving the viewer dizzy and ready to puke. Instead this person used it only occasional to demo that it works smoothly and focuses more on the fireworks because we all know that movies need explosions!11eleven.

The important part is the OpenTrack connector, not the game in itself, leaving clumsy IR trackers in the dust!

Really any webcam from the last decade gets the job done. The trick is to add a filter to ignore everything that is not on the IR wavelength. Configuring camera and OpenTrack correctly is also vital. Like most webcams get really really slow when the scene is dark trying to raise gain and exposure. This must be disabled or their fps plummet into oblivion.

Find my scribbles on https://beko.famkos.net/2021/07/08/diy-headtracker-for-gaming-on-linux-pc/ (or watch the video) - whole thing did cost me 5 EUR. Mebbe it has some pointers for you too.

Think I got the aspect ratio somewhat under control. It’s not perfect but much better. At this point I think it’s simply a bug of EliteDangerous. It’s like the HUD doesn’t get the rescaling memo after the intro played.

The settings make no sense to me but I can live with that. SBS (right/left side) images attached. The HUD is now at least readable and not squished too much.

That is interesting. Do I understand this correct that it has to be SBS left/right for this to work? I read conflicting reports on this.

Thing is my glasses need right/left and most of what’s on YT does simply not work when I just go fullscreen with SBS enabled so I have to drag it out of YT first and run it through Bino (or use ffplay with stereo3d filter) to “fix” this again.

This looks like if I want to make it convenient for VR I make it inconvenient for XR glasses users like XREAL and Viture users. I’m highly confused.

Oh and what about h265 or V1? The example only suggests h264:

ffmpeg -i input_file.mkv -vcodec libx264 -x264opts “frame-packing=3” output_file.mp4

Tried if h265 would happily eat frame-packing too but it’s an unknown option for it :/

I’ll take a look, thanks! SteamVR is not involved in this [that I know of]

Dunno, I hardly ever played it xD

…kidding, I like it but I tend to ignore the boring parts in games so bites me 🤷

Free perceived value weight 👍

There are several potentiometers beside the throttle itself on the stick: RNG, ANT, and 2 for Cursor. See attached image:

Cursor has a lower resolution and could technically be mapped to a HAT but that’s just 2 axes in the end again as well 🤷

All 5 axes :)

I’ve a video coming up for this one as well. Probably a lot shorter but the idea is the same.

heh, this totally reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s dwarves, that spend a lot of time trying to find out what’s under the beard of the other first without asking that akward question xD

Haha awesome. Glad you like it 👍

Heh, madlads :D Modern problems require modern solutions 👍

What are your experience?

My last “real” Windows experience was with WinXP and every time I have to touch Windows at the PC of a customer, which happens sometimes when the stars align, I feel like the first human that ever walked the earth.

I have no idea how people get any work done on a system that is constantly nagging for attention, popups, restrictive Enterprise environment and non descriptive error messages. Nothing in this world seems to make sense or is presented in a unified way. Every dialogue or sub system seems to be it’s own isle stemming from another decade of tech. The experience for someone who is simply not used to Windows any more due to missing exposure is horrible.

Heck a Mac feels alien to me too but in the end that’s still a system I could deal with given some time.

Mebbe I’m spoiled by stuff like systemd, PipeWire, Wayland, btrfs and all that candy we get nowadays on a Linux desktop. I’m not even talking about privacy or FOSS principles at this point. Just the fact that the system doesn’t get in my face with ads or AI or “very important reboots” seems to be a revelation in 2024.

Truck bro is ascending 🤓

Sounds kinky.

for some reason they wanted me to have slack

I get similar requirements from school and kindergarten nowadays. They want me to install weird apps for communications. Last school had an online portal on the web and mail. That was a no brainer but these apps?

Hello Waydroid.

Not gonna taint my own phone with this stuff. That includes WhatsApp.

pvt NoPhone

Love this bit. Gonna steal it :D