Anyone using Tobii or Beam devices for P3dv5.4?  Do either of them work as advertised?  I like the idea of not wearing reflectors/IR LEDs and the fact that they are said to be unaffected by ambient light.  Hugh price difference twixt Tobii and Beam, however, where Beam is concerned, I am not crazy about using my phone as a tracking device (if I understand the method correctly). 

I would consider Track IR if I were reasonably sure that it was consistently reliable and didn't jump around like a deranged rabbit when light affected it.  Years ago I had a Track IR3 which worked ok but was really went wonky with ambient light and of course there's the hat...

Would appreciate any feed back.

Rgds to all,

max

I use this.  Works amazingly well.  I had Track IR with the hatclip for years, but like the Delanclip rechargeable infrared way better. Never used the TrackIR infrared system because it was another wire attached to my head, whereas the Delanclip is wireless. Very smooth.  I attach it to my headphones.

Professional IR Tracking - Wireless Head Tracker | Delanclip https://share.google/R1kd4CA7YvN1Rb9QP

 

Get a tobii!

 

Beam is brilliant, easy to set up, and cheap, very cheap. You don't need to use a phone, a webcam is best. That's all you need. There's a trial from Steam but the full software doesn't need Steam.

I sold my Tobii, couldn't get on with it.

Edited February 26Feb 26 by Chobble

13 hours ago, Chobble said:

Beam is brilliant, easy to set up, and cheap, very cheap. You don't need to use a phone, a webcam is best. That's all you need. There's a trial from Steam but the full software doesn't need Steam.

Price is definitely right.  My pc doesn't have a web cam but I do have a couple of 1080p USB cameras lying around which I used to use with TrackHat (which was useless).  If I understand correctly, all one needs is the Beam software and a camera; and one can get the trial software from Steam to "try it out"?

Thanks, max

I have also moved away from Tobili to Eye Beam Tracker, I'm much happier with it.

Beam is not just a eye tracker, it's also a head tracker, it works best with a high fps camera,

I paid £63 for mine and it gives 100 fps, this gives superb results.

There has been a large software up-date very recently, making things even simpler to set up.

I've disabled the eye tracker and just use headtracking. I have a decade-old MS webcam, only 30fps, but it works well. It's better in a well-lit room.

No joy here.  Got Beam yesterday, installed (admin) it as instructed, and DL'd Opentrack.  When I try to set Output in OT (Microsoft FSX Simconnect) I get a simconnect error: "not a valid Win32 app".  I have 3 versions (10.0.xxxxx.0) of simconnect installed for P3Dv5.4.  According to the Beam game instructions page for P3D, OT must be used, but it doesn't mention what version of P3D they are talking about.

I run everything as Admin and both apps are "allowed".

Thanks, max

 

4 hours ago, HHAS67 said:

No joy here.  Got Beam yesterday, installed (admin) it as instructed, and DL'd Opentrack.  When I try to set Output in OT (Microsoft FSX Simconnect) I get a simconnect error: "not a valid Win32 app".  I have 3 versions (10.0.xxxxx.0) of simconnect installed for P3Dv5.4.  According to the Beam game instructions page for P3D, OT must be used, but it doesn't mention what version of P3D they are talking about.

I run everything as Admin and both apps are "allowed".

Thanks, max

Whilst I don't know anything about "Beam" itself, I did in a quick google lookup and read Beam used OpenTrack as a provider for its functionality.

I do have OpenTrack installed (version 2023.3.0) and it does work fine.

This morning I updated OpenTrack to version 2026.1.0 and straight away it refused to load simconnect selections with the error of "not a valid Win32 app %1".

Rolled back to 2023.3.0 and all is functional again.

You can download the versions of OpenTrack from the below GitHub link.

https://github.com/opentrack/opentrack/releases

I note there is an issue raised on OpenTrack's Github issue tracker regarding simconnect issues, you might want to create a GitHub issue ticket containing your own experience and also follow up with the Beam crew.

Cheers

Edited February 28Feb 28 by Rogen
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Thanks Rogen, it worked, however not so good on my 48" monitor; something I didn't know about. 

Thanks anyway,

max