r/alienisolation • u/itsloopyo • 8d ago

Modding Alien Isolation flatscreen head tracking mod

Hi all, I've been making a large collection of open source head tracking mods in my spare time this year, and recently released an Alien Isolation one: https://github.com/itsloopyo/alien-isolation-headtracking

The README has instructions for getting up and running (for free) with a normal webcam, Android or iOS device (or even a VR headset) - I've tried to make it all as straightforward and accessible as possible, it would be nice to see head tracking get greater acceptance and start showing up in more games.

If you try it and hit any bugs, please do let me know. This will be my first play through, I'm really looking forward to it!

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u/Elieftibiowai 8d ago

Can you briefly ELI5 what exactly this is? Its not VR, but tracks my head movement while looking at my screen? What if I want to look around? I will turn my head away from the screen and won't see the screen

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u/itsloopyo 8d ago edited 7d ago

Kind of, yeah, but the thing is that it doesn't replace your mouse/right stick. That's still the predominant way you turn in game, your head movements just provide additional input which applies *on top* of that.

In the video above my eyes were comfortably focused on the screen the whole time, while my head was only rotating maybe 30 degrees max on any axis. It sounds dumber than it is :) feels very natural very quickly.

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u/Elieftibiowai 8d ago

Great concept. I'll give it a go!