KarenCornish wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 6:02 am
I haven't personally ordered anything from them recently, but I understand how frustrating it can be when you can't get any response from customer support or see updates on social media. It's definitely important to have confidence in a company before recommending their products. Hopefully, someone else in the community can share their recent experience with Trackir to give us a clearer picture.
Most people that use TrackIR don't come to these forums. The mods approve every post & thread and may take a long time. The interface is presented as a forum where you post and read your thread, similar to IM, but it's even slower than sending real physical letters.
I hope Conway's Law isn't causing them trouble. For example hiring someone to create software and their job is done and people don't quickly understand what they made. That's one example.
I still think it's old tech. You can clip a flimsy wired thing to headphones or wear a hat. I'm wearing glasses, why can't I get some reflectors on the frame of my glasses? Or the entire frame itself..
Point is, they need money and cheap ideas. This forum, being controlled by admin, is stupid as it is essentially Conway's Law if someone is discussing ideas to improve the company. There should be two forums, admin monitored and free to talk. If you can't approve a post in 5 minutes, then you should re-think your monitoring system if automation is the solution or if you should be monitoring all posts at all. I guarantee the choice to monitor these forums hurt sales.
TrackIR sits atop of this trash pile, meaning very little support for TrackIR in games, and that trash will soon turn into gold. TrackIR should be de facto thing people buy.
You have the choice between VR or Triple Monitor or Track IR when you get a flight sim game.
VR isn't ready yet. Nvidia's site says dual 4K @ 90fps. I disagree and say dual 8K @ 90fps based on how close the screens are to your eyes, 4K that close wouldn't provide the visual fidelity found in current monitors. No matter, I can't name any games that are breaking ground visually that even can hit a single monitor 4K @ 90fps. That'll change soon.
But we're still waiting on tech for 8K in a tiny monitor.
Triple Monitor is not just a lot of work for the devs in hiring those that know what their doing and handling bandwidth issues, plus it's a large investment for the user, last study I seen show 30% of gamers have dual monitors, from 2010.
TrackIR is what should be used in all FPS and OTS games, flight sim, not flight sim, period. Here:
"FreeLook" in various FPS games. These games, they all should support TrackIR if they don't already. FPS on PC typically played with one analog input, the mouse, you require shift states to use more than one.
Think about a console. Consoles aren't ready for VR and people don't have Triple huge TV's in their living room. It should be created for every console. I wonder why Microsoft's Kinect isn't doing this already. Doing that also opens up mobile gaming to whoever is able to use a camera for this.
I wonder how many gamers have glasses? Do you know as of 2022, more adults are gamers than children?
Then there's cloud gaming. This is the solution to the lack of a system capable to run 4K @ 90fps. Right now for example you can get GeForce Now if it's in your area and have a PC running roughly a 5600x and a 4080 for $20/month. If you do the math, that's $480 for the 4080 generation vs buying it new at $1150. That's just the video card, how many don't have a CPU 5600x capable of beating a 5600x? Over 95% of gamers per Steam Hardware Survey. It's how games are going to be played in the near future. Adults have a much louder voice than children. They can vote.