Home Built Head Tracking

Webcam + IR LED based head-tracking for flight sims

james.moran

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If you get really into realistic flight sims like DCS World or Falcon BMS (or even "realistic" sci-fi ones like Elite Dangerous) you'll quickly find lots of people telling you that the #1 peripheral you need to get the most out of the games after a good HOTAS is a head tracker. Various commercial solutions exist, but since I 1) like making things and 2) am cheap I decided to make my own.

Details

This design is intended for use with the FOSS OpenTrack project (https://github.com/opentrack/opentrack).

Files

filter_mount_v3.stl Fits around the lens of the PS3Eye to hold an IR filter in place Standard Tesselated Geometry - 21.57 kB - 04/03/2021 at 22:54		Download
PS3 eye mount v2.stl A mount for attaching a PS3Eye camera to my specific desk (Walmart Mainstays L-shaped desk with hutch, Walmart # 571861006) Standard Tesselated Geometry - 8.58 kB - 04/03/2021 at 22:54		Download

Components

1 × PS3 Eye
3 × IR LED
1 × Resistor (100 ohm) Technically needed 83 ohms, but I didn't want to faff about with making that from some combination of multiple resistors
1 × IR Filter IR760
1 × Barrel jack power cable

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Home Built Head Tracking

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filter_mount_v3.stl

PS3 eye mount v2.stl

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