Is TrackIR 5 Still WORTH IT in 2023? | Unboxing, Installation and Review

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Published on December 5, 2022 4:15:11 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuRFFbU9xc

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A detailed unboxing, setup and review of TrackIR 5 in 2022.

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Links:
TrackIR Software Download
https://www.trackir.com/downloads
Squirrel's TrackIR Profiles
https://squirrel.tv/faq/
https://tinyurl.com/yezzya8u (Direct Download)
Buy NaturalPoint TrackIR
https://www.trackir.com/

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
05:13 What's in the box
06:55 Hat Clip vs Pro Clip
08:50 Installation & Setup Guide
12:17 Installing Custom Profiles
15:55 Euro Truck Sim 2 Gameplay
17:33 War Thunder Gameplay
18:10 How Easy Does It Work
18:56 Review Summary

So what exactly is TrackIR? Well put very simply, it’s a head tracker that tracks the movement of your head and allows you to look around in game by moving your head in real life which frees up your hands from having to look around with the mouse, and because it supports 6 degrees of freedom, it also means you can zoom in to read different dials in the cockpit of your plane or roll your head left and right as well. It’s basically similar to VR but without having to spend hundreds of euro’s on a VR headset or have a great big plastic brick strapped to your face for hours.

I think for me the biggest selling point of TrackIR and one of the main advantages it has over Virtual Reality is that doesn’t require a beasty PC to use, in fact it doesn’t really use much processing power or affect your fps at all while still giving you full head tracking capability. With the tracking software open it’s using less than 1% of my CPU and memory and it’s opening up a whole extra level of immersion in the games I’m playing, but I mean TrackIR and head tracking in general isn’t a new technology, this stuff’s been around for years and years, but it goes to show how well it works when you consider how many players like me are still choosing to use it and go back to it today.

TrackIR 5 System Requirements
System Requirements
Available USB port
Windows Vista or newer
60 Megabytes of free hard drive space
(A toaster could run it seriously, you're fine)

*My PC Specs*
Operating System - Windows 11
CPU - Intel i7 8700k 3.7ghz
GFX - Nvidia RTX 3070
Memory - 32gb DDR4 (4 x 8gb)
Game is installed on an SSD

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