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I have both. I've been moving towards the Tobii. Although, the TrackIr works just fine. It's a close call. With the TrackIR you have be conscious of light in the room. I have a window that lets in strong sunlight, at certain times of the day, and it will screw up the view. Ambient light doesn't seem to effect the Tobii system. The advantage of The TrackIr is there are more sims that use it. I use mine IL-2 and ROF, and a number of racing sims.

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I have a Track IR and was contemplating a Tobii eye tracker.

 

However, When I contacted Tobii they confirmed the unit has to attach to the monitor at the bottom.

 

As I have a partial cockpit full of hardware it is not possible so I am still using the Track IR although I had no issues with it and now I have got my monitor running at 120mhz it is performing even better.

 

So if you have hardware obscuring the bottom of your monitor I don't think Tobii is of benefit.

Dave

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Tobii by a mile for me.

My Track IR served me well for 15 years, but the Tobii is a different generation.

No wires or hats - just walk up to your pc and it works. 180 degree views no problem, no light sources causing stutters, no flimsy camera legs that break and much easier to calibrate in game via sensitivity settings. 

No way back for me . 

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22 minutes ago, petejohno1 said:

much easier to calibrate in game via sensitivity settings

Yes, because it's way less configurable!

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1 hour ago, davenicoll said:

I have a Track IR and was contemplating a Tobii eye tracker.

 

However, When I contacted Tobii they confirmed the unit has to attach to the monitor at the bottom.

 

As I have a partial cockpit full of hardware it is not possible so I am still using the Track IR although I had no issues with it and now I have got my monitor running at 120mhz it is performing even better.

 

So if you have hardware obscuring the bottom of your monitor I don't think Tobii is of benefit.

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2 hours ago, davenicoll said:

I have a Track IR and was contemplating a Tobii eye tracker.

However, When I contacted Tobii they confirmed the unit has to attach to the monitor at the bottom.

As I have a partial cockpit full of hardware it is not possible so I am still using the Track IR although I had no issues with it and now I have got my monitor running at 120mhz it is performing even better.

So if you have hardware obscuring the bottom of your monitor I don't think Tobii is of benefit.

I've got my Tobii mounted to the top of my main instrument panel which puts it about 15 cms  in front of my main display and 5 cms higher than the bottom of the display monitor. The eye and head tracking works just fine for me. I've seen other installations like mine with the Tobii mounted to their instrument panel as well.  

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10 hours ago, u843867 said:

my unit died after using it only about 20 times. I paid $179.50, $9 per use! The concept is good but I can't recommend it.

I doubt if that was a Track IR, my first one  lasted over a decade, and now three years on my second TRack IR. 

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On 11/19/2021 at 7:49 AM, Matchstick said:

Right now in MSFS the Tobii is missing controls to configure the settings so you are stuck with the default which personally I find a little too sensitive,
It also only tracks rotation at the moment and not Up, Down, Left, Right, Fowards, Backways tracklng.

However I still prefer it right now to TrackIR because I hate having to wear the tracker on my headphones and as you mention TrackIR can get very confused if you wear glasses.
 

The Tobii also works as a Windows Hello camera so you can set it up to log you into windows automatically when you it sees you - very usefu but slightly creepy 🙂

If you use the TrackClipPro and ensure you have the camera LED brightness set to 0 you will have no problem wearing your glasses.

I use the wireless TrackClipPro you can find on the Ebay.  Very sturdy and battery powered, won't break like the official one and it's wireless!

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39 minutes ago, remilton said:

If you use the TrackClipPro and ensure you have the camera LED brightness set to 0 you will have no problem wearing your glasses.

I use the wireless TrackClipPro you can find on the Ebay.  Very sturdy and battery powered, won't break like the official one and it's wireless!

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I wear glasses all the time with the Track IR, and use the visor clip that comes with the Track IR, and have zero problems. 

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Another TrackIR users. For me it just works so why change it.

Would be nice if the software was updated to a modern look, and maybe they could sell a hat with the reflectors built in. Stupid clip is always falling off or springing off somwhere. Seems like Natural Point has no interest in expanding its product line or marketing or improving. Weird. Atleast it works.

Maybe I'll try this DIY, looks ridiculous, but whatever. DIY

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48 minutes ago, SolRayz said:

Another TrackIR users. For me it just works so why change it.

Would be nice if the software was updated to a modern look, and maybe they could sell a hat with the reflectors built in. Stupid clip is always falling off or springing off somwhere. Seems like Natural Point has no interest in expanding its product line or marketing or improving. Weird. Atleast it works.

Maybe I'll try this DIY, looks ridiculous, but whatever. DIY

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Get a good stapler,  and staple clip to cap in the middle of the bill. 

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2 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

I wear glasses all the time with the Track IR, and use the visor clip that comes with the Track IR, and have zero problems. 

It really depends on your glasses, where your camera is located and your environment. Some of us have found that the IR LED's light bounces off our glasses and interfere with the LED signal bouncing off our hat mounted TrackClip.

I wear my Beyerdynamic DT990 any time I am gaming so as to keep from annoying others in the house, so the wireless TrackClipPro works out fine and is a joy to use compared to the original fragile wired version.

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22 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Get a good stapler,  and staple clip to cap in the middle of the bill. 

That might work, thought about just glueing it. 

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