Welcome to the latest edition of the TrackIR Newsletter. This issue features new TrackIR Enhanced games, events, downloads, and awards. We hope you enjoy it!

Featured TrackIR Titles

Flyboys
Flyboys is a TrackIR Enhanced WWI flying game with over 10 authentic airplanes and 12 single player missions based upon the movie Flyboys. Flyboys will feature online multiplayer events and one full month of Massively Multiplayer online play at no cost. Take to the skies with TrackIR and Flyboys today by downloading the demo from their site.

Orbiter
Orbiter is a flight simulator that goes beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere. Launch the space shuttle from Kennedy Space Center to deploy a satellite, rendezvous with the International Space Station, or take the futuristic Delta-glider for a tour through the solar system - the choice is yours. The emphasis in Orbiter is firmly on realism; it is not a "space shooter." This game is currently TrackIR Enhanced thanks to Oliver Pieper's third party plug-in, and is expected to have direct support in the next official release. Please download the full game today, and review our Tips & Tricks to enable TrackIR.

Future and Past Events

LLTM 2006
LLTM 2006 was sponsored by NaturalPoint and was once again a great success. All participants found the event to be a great challenge, with good facilities and a great atmosphere to meet, fly and chat with fellow flight simmers. The competition was fierce but fair. The Lock On section had a serious competition going with nine pilots. Visit the LLTM 2006 Competition results page to see who the best of the best was.

Want to Win a TrackIR?
Then check out our competitions page and see what current competitions are running where you may enter to win a TrackIR 4:PRO. Currently there are two really cool Armed Assault contests going.

One competition challenges you to make a stand alone cutscene for Operation Flashpoint, lasting no more than five minutes, and with a maximum of three add-ons. A veteran team of OFPEC mission reviewers will judge the contest. Learn more...

ArmedAssault.eu wants you to write a fictional story of at least 700 words in English, based on Armed Assault. You may follow a single character through the story, multiple characters, as a third person observer, or any other form of telling your story. Learn more...

Check Out Our New Events Forum
We have a new dedicated forum just for our TrackIR community members to post about new Events. We also still have our Community section which has updates about upcoming racing series, TrackIR events, competitions and sponsorship announcements.

Other News

TrackIR Won Best of Hardware at AVSIM 2006
This year's AVSIM was an incredible event. It was really fun to meet some of the dedicated people who make up the Flight Sim community. If you are a flight simulation fan we highly suggest checking out AVSIM next year. NaturalPoint was honored to receive the Bravo Zulu Award for Best Hardware. Thanks to the AVSIM team and to all who joined the NaturalPoint team in D.C.!

Gamasutra Q&A
We were honored to chat with Alistair Wallis from the popular game development site Gamasutra.com about the current state of TrackIR's technology and what might be in store for the future. Read the article...

Thirdwire Patch for Series
Thanks to the genius of Tsuyoshi "TK" Kawahito and his Third Wire Productions crew, their version 08.30.06 patches deliver much improved TrackIR support (5DOF) in this popular line of combat flight simulators. If you enjoy modern high-speed non-stop jet combat, check out Wings Over Europe, Wings Over Vietnam, and Strike Fighters: Project 1 today.

Ship Simulator Demo Available
You can download the demo from Ship Simulator's website. The demo features the NY taxi boat mission (mission 04 in the game).

Cool New Liveries
Check out what some of our NaturalPoint sponsored sim racing teams have sent us for their cars' paint jobs.

If you have any comments or questions please let me know.

Best regards,

Kevin Fox
NaturalPoint Inc.
888.865.5535
Fax: 541.753.6689
sales@naturalpoint.com
www.naturalpoint.com