Crane Your Neck
Does it make me a bigger computer geek or airplane geek if my first reaction on seeing this dingus was that it looked pretty insanely neat?
(That’s a rhetorical question, you can keep your opinions to yourself.)
Jason A. Lefkowitz is a programmer and writer. For his sins, he lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This is his "blog." (Kids, ask your parents.)
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Comments
Sean
April 23, 2004
4:28 pm
At first it looked pretty cool… but don’t you need to keep your eyes straight ahead on the monitor as you turn your head side to side?
Jason Lefkowitz
April 23, 2004
4:59 pm
It translates very small head movements into much more significant movements on the display. The site claims that a 3 degree movement of the head to the right translates into a 90 degree rightward movement on-screen. So you can look around with a lot of freedom without really actually having to move your head off-axis very much.
Details here:
http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/products/howitworks.html