Facetracknoir

[mbecks]

Has anyone here tried Facetracknoir? And if so how did you like it. If you don't know what it is it's worth looking into. It works similar to trackir but instead of using infrared it uses face tracking technology much like a camera. That's to the best of my knowledge

[Mr.Herbi]

i tryed it and dont like it. cant explain exactly why but the input is a way to delayed and not smooth. it doesn´t matter what i set up something other feels wired. it definitly doesn´t work out of the box. i tryed it with 2 different cams. pseye and a cheap logitech. pseye works much better.
but the worst thing on factracknoir is if the tracker loose its reverence points during race and you cant center it correctly. this happens sometimes you move your head out of the cam view.
headtracking with led´s or ir works 1000x better and more precise and the fact that noir is more delayed could make you sick after a while. (sry for bad english)

[davidcommons]

tried it and still use it on occasion, good way to experiment and see if you like the effect with tracking before you go investing big money in more sophisticated systems.
as herbal said the tracking is someitmes scetchy especially when you are a bit further back from the camera as is normal when using a wheel.

[Hayabusa[WN]]

Tried it on occasion and it worked pretty well but need a good background and stable lighting to be set up well. I actually found Freetrack with an infra red diode head setup and a Wii mote worked the best.

But recently I have been playing with an Arduino and gyro based on http://edtracker.org.uk/. Seems to work by far the best and easilly built into a small box, even a headset.

I have tried a couple of gyros and it does suffer drift which is a bti annoying having to keep resetting front view, but it works far more accurately than a webcam/wiimote. You can calibrate it and get it pretty close but for me temperature variations externally can upset that calibration. Currently just awaiting delivery of a gyro with magnetic field sensing which should help eliminate drift by alinging itself like a compass.

Having tired Tracknoir, facetrack, freetrack and earlier versions of Trackir the Edtracker version is better ( not tried the lastest Trackir ).

[mbecks]

Do you have a link on how to set up tracking using the wii remote and it sensor?