Thirith on 14/12/2016 at 07:55
Last Friday I not only got my Touch controllers but also a Tobii 4C - a combination eye/headtracking device. It only works with a fairly small number of games, e.g. Elite Dangerous, Arma, Euro Truck Simulator and a couple of Ubisoft games, but it's pretty cool and may well replace the TrackIR for me, even if the functionality's not all there yet. In Arma 2, at least, I found myself flying helicopters much more easily; the combination of headtracking for large movements and eyetracking for finetuning works very well, once you've tweaked the settings for yourself. (Arma 3 is still giving me some headaches, mind you.) The 4C is far from essential, but it is a nifty gadget, and I'm curious to using it more.
Also, the Tobii guys are extremely friendly, helpful and enthusiastic. Hooray for nice Swedes!
henke on 14/12/2016 at 08:16
Dude's got a TrackIR and a Tobii and an Oculus Rift. Come on, Thirith, you need to invite us all over to your house to play with your toys.
Thirith on 14/12/2016 at 08:23
The advantage of not having kids... Any money put aside for toys can be spent on me. :p
Shadowcat on 14/12/2016 at 11:17
I don't think anyone other than grandparents ever say "you need to invite us over to your house to play with your kids". (Or if they do, "yes" is most likely the wrong answer.)
Malf on 14/12/2016 at 12:22
My clutter ain't a patch on Thirith's, but I've got a Saitek X52 Pro HOTAS, a TrackIR 5 and 3 pads I alternate between, a wired 360 one, a PS4 one and the Steam controller. I've also got the Steam Link. Then there's my various figurines and tchotchkes I've got with collector's editions in the past. Not too many, as I stopped buying CEs a while back, but the ones I have are quite cool (apart from the god-awful Bioshock Big Daddy that looks like it was painted by a 2-year-old.)
Malf on 14/12/2016 at 13:10
Nah, it's still recognisably a Big Daddy, but just really badly painted. I'll grab a piccy of it when I'm home.
heywood on 14/12/2016 at 15:42
A nice pair of Audio Technica closed-back cans and a headphone amp. A Datacolor monitor calibrator.
I also have some old stuff in the closet that I haven't used in a while: wheel, force feedback stick, pads. And I still hang to an old Aureal A3D card with the hope that maybe someday I'll set up a vintage Win 98/Me system again to enjoy those old late 90s games with positional audio.
Not really peripherals, but I have a full C64 system including original monitor, disk drive, joysticks. We still play this. I also have an old Coleco Gemini that my mother and law dug out of her attic for me, but we haven't bothered to make it work.
faetal on 14/12/2016 at 18:39
Quote Posted by henke
Dude's got a TrackIR
and a Tobii
and an Oculus Rift. Come on, Thirith, you need to invite us all over to your house to play with your toys.
Just walk in, he won't even know you're there.
