NaturalPoint TrackIR 5 Head Tracking System with TrackClip PRO – 6DOF USB Optical Motion Tracker for PC Gaming, Flight & Racing Simulators – NaturalPoint Head Tracker Bundle

Works as intendedSmall advice: This one costs half price of the Tobii and is better. Eye Tracking has its cons and can not be compensated in many games.

Exactly what I was looking for. Shipped fast.

Highly Recommend. I ordered this for MSFS. It took me maybe 10min to have it connected, the driver software downloaded and operational on MSFS. It just works natively with MSFS no additional API plug ins. Once I figured out that I had to turn it on before MSFS, look at the natural forward, press F12 to zero, then fire up MSFS - Done..! It was as close to the real thing as you can get with a DIY flight sim. No more fiddling with hat switches, just glance and or duck. To look over the nose, just sit up a little for a better view. AWESOME..!!

This impressive concept does exactly what it claims. Since the mid 1980's The most unrealistic aspect of all the flight software I have experienced was the lack of the ability to turn the head fluidly to see anywhere but straight ahead. Joystick hat switches never really cut it. For real pilots, situational awareness - the ability to look around - is not a luxury. It is a necessity. It isn't much different for pilots in simulators and flight games. I eventually pulled back from flight software because the sense of immersion wasn't there for me.TrackIr comes to the rescue brilliantly, and opens up a new world and a greater sense of immersion for all desktop pilots. That said, there are a few issues.This product is obviously long-in-the-tooth. The infrared camera, as has been frequently mentioned, comes nowhere close to fitting atop any monitor I've had in the last 20 years. You will be on your own when it comes to finding a way to adapt it to the top of yours.Lots of people complain about the flimsy plastic clamp on the TrackClip PRO. It's actually quite a clever, if complex, design, allowing a range of expansion to fit a variety of headsets. I successfully tested it on 3 very different sets. It's true that this clamp is made with small, delicate parts, and will be prone to fail if abused, or just removed and replaced frequently. It would be best to attach it and leave it mounted between uses. I would have designed something simpler and more robust, but it is what it is. be careful with it!Most impressive is the software provided for setup and adjustment. Unfortunately, NaturalPoint has done one thing that is quite inexcusable. The software, though a free download, comes with absolutely no guidance as to it's use. The user is left clueless as to how to use it and must rely on the kindness of other users (YouTube videos) to understand it. The only instructionals in the package only deal with assembly of the hardware itself. (Post Script - I later discovered a help manual via a tiny drop-down at the top left corner of the screen! Frankly.....the YouTube videos were easier to decipher!)People also rant about how the user is confined to one position and cannot move without messing up the alignment. Trust me - while strapped into my open cockpit Experimental home-built by a five-point harness, my body is totally restricted from movement! If you should accidentally move your position a bit there is a key assignment that allows the user to instantly re-center the view with one stroke.The other common complaint is the cost. That is doubtless because NaturalPoint has had a monopoly for years. This shows in their complacence in keeping the product updated (ie. a printout with their current web URL is actually just thrown into the box so they wouldn't have to reprint the packaging).You will see reviews that complain that this is just a dumb-simple I.R. camera and a few LED's, and is correspondingly way overpriced. As a former professional toy designer I can assure you that this seemingly simple package and the accompanying software required a considerable bit of cost and development to bring to market. Still, that's no excuse for leaving the product on the market for so many years without providing consumers with needed updates. It's your choice. With all it's faults It's probably still the best of it's kind available today, and you're going to have to pay-to-play. I'm just sorry I waited this long to get on board.Addendum. After using this device for two years I offer these tips: I have now used Track IR with Win 7, and using the same software, with recently installed Win 10. No issues. I have mounted the IR camera to the top of two different thin monitors by gluing a block of stiff stiff packing foam to the inside of the longest leg. The foam fills the space between the inside of the back leg and the back of the monitor. People having issues with alignment should understand that Alignment IS fussy! Place yourself in a comfortable position, squarely in front of the camera and make an effort not to move from that position during play. Put on and plug in your headset first, then start the software, being careful not to move yourself or the position of your head while the software is booting. Oddly, in Win 10 my software opens in a tiny minimized window at the top edge of my monitor. I maximize it to full-window, and then quickly return my head to a centered position. If I am square to the camera, the alignment cross-hairs will appear directly in the center of the screen, and I will be able to turn my head to the left and right, getting approximately the same range of movement on both sides. If I seem to be slightly off-center I hit my F12 key to re-align to center (you will also do this every so often while in-game). At this stage the left camera LED will be lit. Once I enter game the right side LED will also light up. You don't have to fuss with the software in any way to get this far. Second thing to be aware of is that the Track Clip Pro must be fairly solidly mounted to the side of your headset. With most of today's headsets it won't remain that way. Feel free to use tape or a soft glue to hold everything in place if you wish, after you get it operating correctly. Adjust the angle and tilt of the side arm that has the 3 LEDS, and once certain that everything seems to function smoothly and squarely, take off your headset and make note of how the Clip is clamped and adjusted on your headset, so you can return it to that same position later. If operation becomes wonky in-game, or you're way out of alignment from the start you can be pretty certain it's because the clip had twisted out of alignment. I actually use my phone's screen as a mirror to check the alignment of the arm after putting on my headset. It is also possible for a cable to unknowingly get twisted around the Clip arm and pull everything out of adjustment. It does take time to get used to the idea that you can't squirm around in your chair or move it's position, or do anything that changes the relative position of your track Clip in relationship to the camera without whacking out it's alignment. There is a slight bit of leeway, but not much! And disabuse yourself of the idea that you are going to take the Track Clip on and off regularly. It likely won't survive that! Put it on your headset and leave it on! I use a homemade desktop stand to hang my headset and wrap it's cables on when not in use. Sounds like this is all too much trouble, but once you learn the ropes and get used to operating with it, you won't actually pay that much attention to it. I consider it so essential for flight sims and for multiplayer Arma 3 that I have ordered a spare in case the day should come that I can't get another one.

This is a nice alternative to using VR goggles. You can pan around fairly well once you get it dialed in and you can still see your keyboard unlike using a VR headset.

This thing is awesome! Once you get it setup and get the settings dialed in, dead zones etc, it’s just epic. I play Star Citizen and have the game to use it only when I’m in the cockpit of my ship. I can look around, lean in close and look up etc. The realism that it adds during flight is a game changer. Just take taking off from a station and being able to look over you shoulders and quickly see stuff is really cool. I highly recommend this to anybody playing star citizen.

It's unfortunate that this is really the only reasonably priced option if you need a head tracker for simulators, this is basically it. Particularly for DCS world, it's simply necessary to have a good time. So I'll leave it at that. It does what you want it to do, and reasonably well. You don't really need the head tracker pro unless you wear glasses. In that case, it often gets confused by seeing the IR reflection.So why only three stars? Quality and reliability. For nearly $200 US for us pro setup, and something that has been out for a very long time now, one should be able to expect some level of quality. This isn't. The build quality is EXTREMELY poor. The unit feels like something that would come in a McD happy meal. The lens over the sensor would probably scratch from a blade of grass. I just had to order a replacement because mine inexplicably died yesterday. Tried it on three different computers. Something failed and it no longer gets recognized as a legit USB device. So I ordered a new one. Got it today already. I had to send it back within a few hours. I realized quite quickly that it doesn't work either. This time, because of a random line that cuts right through the image, hence my picture. I can only get the line to go away by turning filtering up to max, but then it still keeps giving erroneous tracking data.So we will see if third time is the charm.