During P3D days, I built a 3-monitor system. I changed it to a single-monitor setup after switching to MSFS 2020 since the flight simulator in the first two years didn’t support multi-monitor function at all.  I kept using one monitor up to today.

Within these single-monitor flightsim days, I used TrackIR for a brief period and gave it up due to its clumsiness with wires and clips.  Since then, I’d been using the POV Hat Switch on the yoke for camera and focus pannings until two weeks ago.

I found an eye-tracking device called AimxyZ by a Chinese company.  Probably some of you have already heard about it or may even be using it, because the product was actually in the market for over two years.

Unlike the TrackIR which uses a tracking transceiver and a passive or an active reflector, the AimxyZ comes with only one dedicated viewcam, thru which users can quickly translate their head movements to the simulators (or games) via the tracking software provided.

In other words, it doesn’t have extra wirings and accessories besides the viewcam.

All I need is sitting in front of the monitor (with the AimxyZ viewcam of course), load up the eye-tracking software and press a key-combo once or a few times to record the centering of my position properly. Then everything is ready to go.

Frankly speaking, the performance advantages of AimxyZ over TrackIR are not day and night.

In addition, when using it intensively for a long period of time, say over 45 mins, my eyes still get fatique and sometimes I feel dizzy, too.  That’s not of much difference to other eye-tracking and VR devices I’ve ever used and tried before.

But the good thing is: it is completely “wire-less” and “attachment-free”.   I don’t have to put anything on my head or wear on my ear.

After using it for nearly two weeks, I am now fully embraced myself with it in FS2020 and FS2024.

It is the only flightsim hardware I added to my system after the Elgato Stream Deck 2-1/2 years ago.

My aim to rebuild a 3-monitor flightsim system is still on my priority list for the future.  But I have to say that the AimxyZ at the moment has to some extent affected my willingness and motivation to carry out my goal.

One complaint: user manual of the product isn’t well-written.  Luckily, the company has provided some instruction videos to help new users to start using the device without much difficulty.