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

No way to switch front and back cameras, massive black bar in landscape mode that blocks most of the screen, app is quite sensitiveto the angle of your phone, and will not register your face at higher angles. There's a bit of shaking even when my head is still that makes it hard to see, and the front-back axis for zoom seems a bit inconsistent. Broken garbage that I can't even get a refund for.

There needs to be a way to switch the camera, as it defaults to the one that uses records in lower quality for me, which in turn affects the quality of the head tracking. It runs well otherwise, but the quality is hard to judge without being able to access the best camera. I give it 4 because it does offer a great work around to more expensive options, but it really is a bit disappointing that a simple camera swap options is not available on a paid app.

This is amazing. I've used it for 3 test landings after a very simple install and its fantastic. Cant wait to try it out in other games too. If my long term experience matches first impression then this is the best $10 I've spent, in a long line of computer equipment. Thanks! I hope you make millions off this app! I eas irritated at first to miss Beta at $5 but now, I'd have probably paid $20! Not suggesting you raise the price, just letting people know its worth every penny.

What’s new

Fixed the port from always using 4242 no matter the setting. (Sorry!)