I first played Elite on my trusty old Commodore 64. It was one of just a handful of games I purchased. The rest of my games were pirated and crammed into the typical storage boxes of the day (shoe boxes).
I purchased Elite Dangerous last year for one purpose, to play it with a virtual reality device. After going back and forth on which device to purchase I ultimately decided on both but first up was the Htc Vive which arrived at the beginning of May about a month after placing the order. This compares pretty favourably to the date Rift gave me (August shipment).
I have spent the last week tweaking settings, purchasing and configuring Voice Attack and even purchased an entry level HOTAS (Thrustmaster 4). I won't be completely satisfied until the Nvidia 1080 is released and I can use settings for VR above low as that is about all I can get via my Radeon 290.
Here are my first impressions. The game seems happier to run at 1280x720 and constantly resets to this resolution so I have just left it there. This may not be the prettiest VR experience but it is absolutely the closest I have ever come to piloting a spaceship. It truly feels like you are in an SF tv show. The biggest marketing challenge is definitely trying to sell the experience descriptively. THe sense of immersion is total and complete. The Vive has a few graphical les but that should not stop anyone from purchasing a unit because the room vr is amazing. You can walk around your ship's cabin and even spy the cargo hold below from certain areas.
Taking off or landing in a space station is a breathtaking experience. The sense of scale contributes to fooling your senses. You FEEL the crushing weight of spinning alloys hundreds of kilometres above the planetary body. Ships that dock above or below you can be massive or small but feel so incredibly real and part of the moment. I kid you not when starting out docking is a blast and I recommend you do it a few times to get comfortable as it will become a common activity.
Combat is a wholly visceral in your face experience right out of same said SF tv show or movie! I am glad I waited for the VR and HOTAS/Voice Attack.
I purchased Elite Dangerous last year for one purpose, to play it with a virtual reality device. After going back and forth on which device to purchase I ultimately decided on both but first up was the Htc Vive which arrived at the beginning of May about a month after placing the order. This compares pretty favourably to the date Rift gave me (August shipment).
I have spent the last week tweaking settings, purchasing and configuring Voice Attack and even purchased an entry level HOTAS (Thrustmaster 4). I won't be completely satisfied until the Nvidia 1080 is released and I can use settings for VR above low as that is about all I can get via my Radeon 290.
Here are my first impressions. The game seems happier to run at 1280x720 and constantly resets to this resolution so I have just left it there. This may not be the prettiest VR experience but it is absolutely the closest I have ever come to piloting a spaceship. It truly feels like you are in an SF tv show. The biggest marketing challenge is definitely trying to sell the experience descriptively. THe sense of immersion is total and complete. The Vive has a few graphical les but that should not stop anyone from purchasing a unit because the room vr is amazing. You can walk around your ship's cabin and even spy the cargo hold below from certain areas.
Taking off or landing in a space station is a breathtaking experience. The sense of scale contributes to fooling your senses. You FEEL the crushing weight of spinning alloys hundreds of kilometres above the planetary body. Ships that dock above or below you can be massive or small but feel so incredibly real and part of the moment. I kid you not when starting out docking is a blast and I recommend you do it a few times to get comfortable as it will become a common activity.
Combat is a wholly visceral in your face experience right out of same said SF tv show or movie! I am glad I waited for the VR and HOTAS/Voice Attack.
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It is, as you say, breathtaking. You have to experience it to understand what ED is like in VR!![BigBANGtheory [VR]](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/71/71385.jpg?1644873788){kind=avatar}
