SmoothTrack: Head Tracker

John Goering

About this app

SUPPORTS ANY DEVICE WHICH CAN INSTALL GOOGLE AR SERVICES.

SmoothTrack provides 3D head tracking for intuitively controlling your sim game's camera, using the AR capabilities of your device. Any game that supports TrackIR works with SmoothTrack!

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"The best new controller on the market...if you're flying a plane on PC, you need to check it out." - Polygon
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It's a near magical experience to seamlessly slightly move your head and have your game perspective immediately play along (the movements in the game are magnified so that you only have to make slight movements of your head to control the camera).

- Simply lean forward to get a closer look at your Flight Simulator cockpit!
- Look a bit up to see the overhead panel of your A320!
- Simply shift your head a bit to the right to see the direction of the space station you're approaching in Elite: Dangerous!
- Look a bit left before a hard left turn in Euro Truck Simulator 2!

No headset or extra equipment of any kind is required! Simply set up your device so that it can see your face. Using simple camera gestures, you can shift your perspective in-game.

Your head movements are slightly exaggerated which enables you to look out of a cockpit side window with just a slight movement of your head to the left.

Includes a dark mode to save your battery and your OLED screen, as well as a bright mode for playing in a dark room!

Any game that supports the FreeTrack or TrackIR protocol will work with this, including:

- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Microsoft FSX
- Elite: Dangerous
- IL2: Sturmovik
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- Kerbal Space Program
- ...and many, many others!

Discord and Email support is provided if there are any issues (or if you have any ideas for new features!).

Ratings and reviews

5 stars. without a doubt the best app for head tracking in games like Flight sim, BeamNG.Drive, and many others. It can take some setup but its all relatively easy once you familiarize yourself with the process, ill say the little details matter for setup so make sure you have everything correct. I have no complaints! Once you get it working you cant beat it. The app is 100% worth the 12 dollars if you want head tracking availability.

Not very impressed. Latency is very high, even with USB mode and 120 fps mode. In landscape mode, there is no way to hide the giant black bar, which is very annoying as it covers half your screen. If you have multiple cameras, there is no way to switch between them. If this was free, I wouldn't complain. Just buy yourself a cheap webcam and use opentrack instead.

Fantastic app. I just got into DCS and this is a way more cost friendly option than a TrackIR setup. I'd prefer if you could have the screen off when using the app to save the battery and screen life. I'd also like to see the app have the ability to Bluetooth or USB tethering to connect to my computer. Right now it only supports connection through a Wi-Fi port, which for me has been spotty at times. The tracking with this app is exceptional though, and way more economical than TrackIR.

What’s new

Update supporting newer Android versions.