GimbalTrack

Tanitech IT

About this app

GimbalTrack provides a powerful and immersive gaming experience by turning your phone to a smart head-tracker that captures your head movements and reflect them in your game, all for FREE and without any need to extra devices.

The app uses the front camera of your phone to track your head movements and actively relay them to OpenTrack, which will then forward them to your game or flight simulation software. Slight head movements enables you to quickly shift the view, look up or zoom in. The app leverages 6 degrees of freedom and high refresh rate position tracking to make your head motions both accurate and smooth.

GimbalTrack supports extended gaming sessions by automatically dimming the phone after a period of non-interactivity. Depending on the selected power saving mode the brightness will be reduced and thereby significantly prolong the battery life of your device.

NB: GimbalTrack can be installed in any android device that supports Google Play Services for AR and can be used along with any desktop game that supports TrackIR.

Ratings and reviews

I take back my previous 1 star rating. Once i went and fiddled with the sensitivities (in the app), filters and mapping (in opentrack) i was able to get it working. It works quite well, not as easy to use as SmoothTrack but you save 10 bucks. A little more instructions and/or a video walk through would help a lot but how much can you complain with a free app that is fully functional?

Was quite reluctant to get it due to the very low download number, but it actually works wonderfully. Surprisingly low latency as long as the phone is plugged in; almost as good as any other head tracking solution (of course, TrackIR and the like is superior, but a thousand times more expensive) I think. I use it for DCS and BMS and it works pretty well, almost no stutters. I recommend it a lot. For a good OpenTrack config, search up the Smoothtrack website and use the default.ini there.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work in background. I wanted to use monitor mounted phone for head tracking AND sim dashboard. Unfortunately, when app loses focus, it stops and doesn't send data to opentrack. I've used some virtual video cameras for streaming video to pc and done face tracking on PC and those apps supported background processing. Too bad because I really liked how it mapped mash to face, with nose and mouth "holes".