🔥 Hell Yes! #X4Foundations added #OpenTrack UDP support for native #HeadTracking under #Linux and I can finally talk about it 🤓 Yes! Yes! 🚀 🎥 I was to happy about it that I even did a recording while I had a bad cold and was hoarse just to show it off: https://makertube.net/w/wo4zAJiTFLeg8t2o93MLpL or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgOkGwMShT0 ✍ Took a while but it’s now in the open beta for 7.50 https://steamcommunity.com/games/392160/announcements/detail/4485117301459255318 It’s great to see another company embracing open standards and care for their niche gamers too ❤️ #GamingOnLinux #LinuxGaming

Cat doing #cats things.

This one flew under my radar so far (haha, sorry): Rescue the civilians, race the clock, and raze the enemy in MH-Zombie, the world’s only helicopter arcade simulator! Three flight physics modes, three difficulty modes, and a tutorial mode provide a stepped learning curve and wider accessibility to realistic helicopter flight. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1429350/MHZombie The reason this came to my attention is because it’s one of the few games that [just] implemented #headTracking via UDP e.g. available by #OpenTrack (and various others). This is great because it doesn’t force people to jump the hoops of #TrackIR, which is only supported for Windows…

Today the little one asked about video editing again. She really wants to make videos. This isn’t the first time as well and I do remember her stop motion mini videos years ago. The new smart phone also has various recording and post production possibilities – albeit limited – that she is playing around with a lot lately using her own drawings. This time she showed up with a game recording where she played some mobile game together with a school friend. They used Signal and headphones for voice and played together via internet while her phone recorded all of…

I totally love this. So in Flight Of Nova some players noticed that some stars in the distance looked not like stars and started venturing out and after a 10h realtime flight they managed to crash on another planetary 😄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fih4peTebyk This is the next attempt holding enough reaction mass back to survive re-entry and do a proper landing too. I love this level of nerdism. And I so hope they get to name that bugger 😄

Wow. The peeps at #FlightOfNova “found” a planet and reached it live on Twitch after a ~10h flight: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2294019904 Insane 🤓 😍 I so hope that the player “Heuristik” gets to name that bugger 🤣

I totally missed the memo but apparently there is a Linux version of #GameGlass for a while now: https://support.gameglass.gg/en/articles/9351904-installing-gameglass-hub-on-linux * Ubuntu 22.04+ * Linux Mint 21.2+ * Fedora 39+ Not a fan of GameGlass (I prefer my switches and dials, as you may know) but it’s probably of interest for other #homeCockpit builders. #SimPit #Gaming #GamingOnLinux #LinuxGaming #StarCitizen #EliteDangerous

This works way better than I expected. This is a static image test for a HUD on my home cockpit using a dead cheap beamsplitter made of plexiglass and a smartphone o0

It has been a while that I tried #StarCitizen. With the new #Neuralnet Tracker plugin (AI haha) for #OpenTrack we get head tracking without annoying IR LEDs or reflecting stripes just by reading the webcam video feed. This is apparently fast enough to try #headTracking without a dedicated #headTracker nowadays. And all that on a #Linux PC. Took some fiddling but the concept still works. What a time to be alive. Demo: https://makertube.net/w/groS1wpAhP8XYE75vJwX32 HowTo: https://simpit.dev/systems/opentrack/ #Gaming

News from the #HobbyArcheology department. I have absolutely no clue what I found this time so I’ll go with “probably something religious”.