Head Tracking with Cliffs of Dover

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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

The makers of alternative headtrackers should play nice by copyright and patent holders

MS Flightsim series does not have TIR native support. NP have to use MicroSofts 'Simconnect' interface, as does FT. SimConnect is open to all 3rd party devs.

NP developed there own interface/hardware and 'encouraged' game devs to us it - these titles were advertised as having 'TrackIR Native support'.

FT gave the Headtracking community an opportunity to access Titles with 'TrackIR native support' by reverse engineering the NP interface to accept Webcams, etc.

NP failed to prevent this in terms of Copyright/Patent infringement.


FT has its own interface + 4 others, Simconnect and TrackIR being two of them to be compatible with TrackIR enhanced titles and FSX.


NP has an encrypted version (which also ties its hardware to it). Any future title advertised as being 'TrackIR enhanced' will be using this.

The rights and wrongs of the above are what you guys cannot agree on, but don't feel too bad - neither could the courts!..........)

Rather than argue about the legalities (in which opinions are entrenched) would it not be better to email/contact the people who will make the decision and request that both interfaces are supported?