Your Best VR Experiences in ED?
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I couldn't agree more...
I have a heat lamp on my desk which comes on every time I jump.....does that count as VR? 
Looking out the window of my Eagle and seeing the wing tips left and right - realizing that I'm in ship the size of a fighter aircraft.
Landing on a planet in my Asp Explorer, the drives turn off and I stand up, stretch my legs and take a step to the window to look down on the planet surface. Walking right into my (physical) chair on the way to my cockpit chair because it was not in the exact same place.
Opening up the system map and boom - this huge wall of stars and planets hovers in front of me.
Targeting planets while exploring by simply looking at them to check the distance.
Looking behind and back sideways of the cockpit chair while dogfighting in an eagle - the corridor to the cockpit has a glass ceiling where you can keep your target in sight.
So maybe it is possible to improve the graphics, rendering of text etc. - but already I simply cannot go back to playing this with just a monitor. It's like looking through a window into a world in which I have already been.
One quote kept popping into my mind:
"On the other side of the screen, it all looked so easy." (If anyone remembers *that* movie. ;-)
Landing on a planet in my Asp Explorer, the drives turn off and I stand up, stretch my legs and take a step to the window to look down on the planet surface. Walking right into my (physical) chair on the way to my cockpit chair because it was not in the exact same place.
Opening up the system map and boom - this huge wall of stars and planets hovers in front of me.
Targeting planets while exploring by simply looking at them to check the distance.
Looking behind and back sideways of the cockpit chair while dogfighting in an eagle - the corridor to the cockpit has a glass ceiling where you can keep your target in sight.
So maybe it is possible to improve the graphics, rendering of text etc. - but already I simply cannot go back to playing this with just a monitor. It's like looking through a window into a world in which I have already been.
One quote kept popping into my mind:
"On the other side of the screen, it all looked so easy." (If anyone remembers *that* movie. ;-)
I am still trying to make out the title of the book in the storage area. I think it is a flight training manual, Volume 1.
The first time I used my Rift DK2 I was blown away. Yes, the resolution and screen door issue do detract slightly, but the depth more than makes up for this.
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Couldn't agree with you more. To me, it seems like Frontier promotes VR (almost) as an afterthought. Maybe they are waiting until it is a more immersed experience. Walking around your ship, Co-pilots, launched fighters, landing on atmospheric worlds, and thargoids are all going to make it better. Don't know about first person though, that one may be tricky.
Or they are still waiting out how VR plays out in the marketplace.
Either way, I think any ED fan should experience VR in elite at least once.
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Just had an 'Oh ****!" moment in my Cobra MKIII on my Oculus Rift CV1. I was out Bounty Hunting in an RES when everything hit the fan. I mean...it was an all out war in there! Well I'm flying around killing every wanted SOB in there & in all the excitement hit a Federation Security Anaconda! Well mind you he was with 2 of his Anaconda buddies so I stored the weapons, shifted my power to engines to get out of mass lock & jumped out of the system to 2 systems over. I arrived in the new system....found a nice quite outpost close by & decided to cruise in to wait out my time to H-Jump back into the other system. So I come out of Hyperdrive begin to push towards the outpost & low and behold....a Imperial Clipper jumps in RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!!!! Now on my 34" monitor I wouldn't have blinked an eye.......but in VR......let's say I literally jumped in my seat! I don't scared easily at all but man.....seeing that huge ship right there in front of me was....amazing! I luckily avoided crashing into him in my jumping fit & boosted into the no fire zone. So not only is it amazing to play this game in VR, but to think that this imperial clipper chased me down because I was wanted is fantastic. Oculus Rift cost worth it just off that little experience!
In an IEagle in a 'Weapons Fire Detected' USS with a Wanted Anaconda and Vulture. A System Authority Anaconda with authority paintjob jumps in. While I am furballing with the pirate he turns towards me, fires, drops my shields, and we both turn away again at the last minute to avoid impact. That is when Authority Annie decides to power through the gap between us. Out of the top of my canopy I see the two Anacondas from above their decks, rumbling past each other in opposite directions and me at a combined closing speed of ~400m/s. Ass clenching moments.
Something I did the other night, which I found very cool, you may not....
Instead of entering a station normally I entered with the slot above my ship, you have to use vertical thrust to move up into the mail slot and yaw to rotate the ship along with the station. Its not easy, but damn it was cool entering the station like that, if not a little disorientating! If you have the skills give it a try, you'll need a ship small enough to get through the slot like this - I used a Vulture.
Instead of entering a station normally I entered with the slot above my ship, you have to use vertical thrust to move up into the mail slot and yaw to rotate the ship along with the station. Its not easy, but damn it was cool entering the station like that, if not a little disorientating! If you have the skills give it a try, you'll need a ship small enough to get through the slot like this - I used a Vulture.
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Seeing my headless female body breath in and out. Also loafing on my real couch, which in VR is located in the back of my Anaconda bridge, waaaay behind the driving seat. It's amazing how far the single sensor will track you accurately. I just wish when you get out of your seat that the headless avatar would disappear, or better yet, follow you.
Interesting. Never thought of that. I'll definitely have to try.
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Hopefully, when it follows you, it doesn't actually follow after you. Nice creepy extra in the game, headless crewmates!
Soon after loading up in VR for first time.
Was on a large surface port. Docked but on the surface. Looking over an amazing moon-city. Planet and star hanging overhead with skimmers zipping around. Busy ship traffic coming and going. Apparently jury rigged wires hanging above in panels (Anaconda cockpit). Looking down to see a body that isn't mine. With hands in identical positions to where my own are (mind boggling).. giving sort of an out of body feeling. I just sat back and let it all in. The UI felt far more intuitive than 2D... but the SHEER SCALE of everything was overwhelming. The HUD. That HUD. Took me a while to get use to actually looking right/left when before everything just crammed flat onto the monitor. The cannon. Now that is a cannon! Sucker is HUGE. The weapons S/M/L/H effectively look the same size-wise in 2D. They absolutely are not in VR.
Then there was the first time docking and taking off from a Coriolis. I promised myself I'd land myself the first time. I chickened out and let the auto-dock take over. Scared the heck out of me. I felt like the Anaconda wouldn't fit though the slot. Then came the rotation and landing inside the station *woah!*. Take-off was just as silly for me. I crept out at turtle speed at like 30m/s. I made it out without scraping. Proud moment haha.
A week+ later I can zip in for landings and take-offs.. never get tired of it. Elite just won't do without VR for me anymore.
Was on a large surface port. Docked but on the surface. Looking over an amazing moon-city. Planet and star hanging overhead with skimmers zipping around. Busy ship traffic coming and going. Apparently jury rigged wires hanging above in panels (Anaconda cockpit). Looking down to see a body that isn't mine. With hands in identical positions to where my own are (mind boggling).. giving sort of an out of body feeling. I just sat back and let it all in. The UI felt far more intuitive than 2D... but the SHEER SCALE of everything was overwhelming. The HUD. That HUD. Took me a while to get use to actually looking right/left when before everything just crammed flat onto the monitor. The cannon. Now that is a cannon! Sucker is HUGE. The weapons S/M/L/H effectively look the same size-wise in 2D. They absolutely are not in VR.
Then there was the first time docking and taking off from a Coriolis. I promised myself I'd land myself the first time. I chickened out and let the auto-dock take over. Scared the heck out of me. I felt like the Anaconda wouldn't fit though the slot. Then came the rotation and landing inside the station *woah!*. Take-off was just as silly for me. I crept out at turtle speed at like 30m/s. I made it out without scraping. Proud moment haha.
A week+ later I can zip in for landings and take-offs.. never get tired of it. Elite just won't do without VR for me anymore.
Yup!! Absolutley true for me too- ED with VR...or nothing!
Landings/takeoffs were scary for me at first too. Now I like to slide around with faoff through the slot using min thrusters all the way to my pad and see how well I can ball on the landing target. So much more fun in VR. The intensity is more engaging.
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I just tried exiting out of the starport sideways with my anaconda, well, it is possible. And surprisingly easier than I thought it would be. Pretty fun too.
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I don't have an experience to share yet but I've just received confirmation from Oculus today that they've processed my order! My Rift should be winging its way to me hopefully in the next day or so. I'm wondering how long it will take to get down to little old New Zealand?
I'd just like to thank everyone here for the inspiring descriptions of your experiences. You are building the dream for me and I am looking forward more than ever to finally getting to experience ED in VR!
Fly safe Commanders!
I'd just like to thank everyone here for the inspiring descriptions of your experiences. You are building the dream for me and I am looking forward more than ever to finally getting to experience ED in VR!
Fly safe Commanders!
I don't have an experience to share yet but I've just received confirmation from Oculus today that they've processed my order! My Rift should be winging its way to me hopefully in the next day or so. I'm wondering how long it will take to get down to little old New Zealand?
I'd just like to thank everyone here for the inspiring descriptions of your experiences. You are building the dream for me and I am looking forward more than ever to finally getting to experience ED in VR!
Fly safe Commanders!
Congrats! I hope you enjoy VR as much as I have, and I'm sure you will.
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