US, January 23, 2009 – Microsoft has confirmed the closure of Aces Game Studio, the internal development studio responsible for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Flight Simulator is one of the company’s oldest product lines, stretching back more than 20 years. The closure came amidst the company’s first major layoffs in its history, announced on Thursday. Approximately 5,000 Microsoft employees will be laid off; around 1,400 were cut immediately, with the remainder to but cut over the next 18 months.

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The source code is available to download here : http://code.google.com/p/ft-projects/source/browse/#svn/trunk/FaceAPI2FSX

NB : you’ll need to install your own copy of FaceAPI SDK (and probably FSX SDK as well) to compile this project

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FaceAPI with Flight Simulator 10 (FSX)

This is my test of combining FaceAPI with FSX SDK, so using the headtracking to control the point of view without any marker on your head.

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“FreeTrack is a free optical motion tracking application for Microsoft Windows, released under the GNU General Public License. …

Head motions are tracked with six degrees of freedom (6DOF), specifically; yaw, pitch, roll, left/right, up/down and forward/back. …”

This is a really cool application that I use with Flight Simulator. It’s exactly like the commercial product Track-IR but it’s totally free and open source. All you have to do is build your cap the way you want. you have all the information on how to do it on the website, a great community to help you on the forum (and I think some people can build one for you if you ask )

You really should take a look at it

More videos : http://www.free-track.net/english/multimedia/video.php

Compatible Games : http://www.free-track.net/english/freetrack/liste-titres-compatibles.php

The Website : http://www.free-track.net/english/