Control Game View By Turning Your Head
The device sounds cooler than the headline, trust me. It’s the TrackClip PRO from a company called NaturalPoint, and it turns your headset into a mouselook controller. Clip it onto your headset, and the motion of your head controls the direction of your view on screen, freeing up your mouse hand for more important matters, presumably. Check out this Flash animation to see how it works (though be sure to mute the annoing music). I can’t tell from the site whether you need to mod your games to use it, but there’s a longish list of TrackIR enhanced games that apparently already support the peripheral — including Flight Simulator X, GTR and GTR2, and even EVE Online. In any case, modding it in shouldn’t be all that hard, considering how easy it was to convert Half-Life 2 for the cool 3D haptic mouse from Novint. And the price? Only $39.95 Around $200. Of course, I can’t tell you whether it actually works or not, since I haven’t actually tried it out (and actually, there’s the potential for it to be highly annoying), but I like the idea.
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It appears that the head clip is only part of the system. Looks like you also need a TrackIR device to use it, to the tune of $179. What you’ve linked is just an alternate device that clips onto your voice headset, if you use one. The base device comes with a widget that clips onto the bill of a baseball cap, but does the same thing. So, either way, it comes up to something like $200 US, give or take a few bucks.
oops, my bad. Still sounds cool, though.