First off this is not a jibe at anyone who has developed apps for ED in the past. I have tried a lot of them and none of them seem to be able to do the trick.
I am currently running a Oculus Rift CV1. The problem I am having is that in order to play Elite Dangerous and do anything accept flying, it requires constantly taking your headset on and off during game play.
There are no tools, information boards, or anything in the game. Everything from the latest discovery, to finding out the closest station with a plasma accelerator require the use of third party sites. Everything that the third party sites are doing should be done inside the game.
Since I wear glasses, I have to re adjust everything so as to not smudge my glasses each time I put the headset back on. It becomes super tedious and breaks all sense of playing in a living game.
I have tried all iterations of app injection software to have access to those tools in game. The problem is they are not natively supported by FDEV and they use more resources then they are worth. Not to mention some of the ways you interface with a couple of them are locked to the use of the xbox pad and I dont use one when playing.
FDEV need to write in a native frame that will allow you to see your desktop while playing the game in VR or they need to add all of those tools in game. At the very least FDEV needs to make a native plugin that allows one or several of the most popular browsers the ability to open screen in game.
I find myself playing less and less, because I know that within the first few minutes of starting the game, I will need to take my headset off and get information off of the Internet. Information that should be in the game already. FDEV does everything so well with VR accept for this. Its the flagship experience for all VR IMHO. The game as a whole including non VR playing would benefit from an in game fully functioning browser and or maybe access to the game forums on screen.
I know its not a world ending problem, but its just so tedious to play the game when you know you will be taking your headset off 2 or 3 times within 30 minutes in order to see information that should be in the game.
Does anyone know if they ever plan on adding this or something Similar? I have tried everything there is to use including V and none of them are worth the system resource cost as well as the interface issues.
I am currently running a Oculus Rift CV1. The problem I am having is that in order to play Elite Dangerous and do anything accept flying, it requires constantly taking your headset on and off during game play.
There are no tools, information boards, or anything in the game. Everything from the latest discovery, to finding out the closest station with a plasma accelerator require the use of third party sites. Everything that the third party sites are doing should be done inside the game.
Since I wear glasses, I have to re adjust everything so as to not smudge my glasses each time I put the headset back on. It becomes super tedious and breaks all sense of playing in a living game.
I have tried all iterations of app injection software to have access to those tools in game. The problem is they are not natively supported by FDEV and they use more resources then they are worth. Not to mention some of the ways you interface with a couple of them are locked to the use of the xbox pad and I dont use one when playing.
FDEV need to write in a native frame that will allow you to see your desktop while playing the game in VR or they need to add all of those tools in game. At the very least FDEV needs to make a native plugin that allows one or several of the most popular browsers the ability to open screen in game.
I find myself playing less and less, because I know that within the first few minutes of starting the game, I will need to take my headset off and get information off of the Internet. Information that should be in the game already. FDEV does everything so well with VR accept for this. Its the flagship experience for all VR IMHO. The game as a whole including non VR playing would benefit from an in game fully functioning browser and or maybe access to the game forums on screen.
I know its not a world ending problem, but its just so tedious to play the game when you know you will be taking your headset off 2 or 3 times within 30 minutes in order to see information that should be in the game.
Does anyone know if they ever plan on adding this or something Similar? I have tried everything there is to use including V and none of them are worth the system resource cost as well as the interface issues.
