1C's stance on head-tracking devices for BoB?

[julian265]

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

no-one is preventing anyone from writing their own software... it is when that software interfaces with someone else's software or hardware without authorisation that there is a problem.

Indeed, however that's what I read Brando as saying. I also think that there is a problem with preventing more open protocols from developing as they have with sticks and mouses. Do you not have a problem with this?

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

TIR is quite cheap, considering the amount of R&D which had to be done to protect their property and considering the cost of games and other computer componetes... the cost is a furphy, a red herring.

My opinion differs on all points. If you want to pay more for the extra development time required to run things on a special microprocessor, rather than the computers CPU, that's your choice.

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

err no... freetrack should have done the correct thing in the first place and developed their own interface, instead of tapping into NaturalPoint's.

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

freetrack don't have the interface... hence their need to use NP's

They always had their own interface. Their "need" was due to games not accepting the usual inputs for use with head pose.