Apology accepted, I'm not looking to fall out with anyone here, I'm simply campaigning to get the decision to revoke VR overturned, so I've no interest in petty squabbling.
You could say something similar about Elite as a product, ~95 million steam accounts, and many non steam gamers, including millions of consoles, and ~3.5 million copies of elite sold, and quite a few players of elite own more than one copy as alt accounts.
Welcome to the money biz.Apart from Linux of course
It's a bit rude to do your experimenting with other people's cash though.
Yes it's beyond single digits and then some.
It's a shame Frontier never utilised the keyboard in the ship for use in VR. As for lack of graphical fidelity that will soon be a thing of the past. The new HP Reverb G2 that is on pre-order (in the US) and is being released in autumn/fall is an example of that. 2160 x 2160 LCD panel per eye. 9.3 million pixels. 2.5 times that of the Oculus Quest. $599. Awesome.
Comparing VR to fusion. Really?
Come on! It's only 30yrs away now
I think you'll find way more hacking trying to get flat games playing in VR. Personally VR makes the game, it makes the game an experience, I would never have started ED without it.
5 years time will be the next DLC, Elite: Promised Land
You are right VR as niche product has failed it might not have become mainstream but it is too widespread to be called a niche product, you can even see it on prime time TV being used in a home makeover show.
That is the thing that is bothering me, the motion sickness. I haven’t played FPS type games in ages because that bouncing up and down of the screen when you are moving which is supposed to make you think you are running makes me want to hurl after about 20 minutes. I know someone who plays the flight part of ED in VR, but comes out to use the SRV due to motion sickness. What I need is to try it and see how I get on, but at a few hundred pounds that is an expensive experiment.You just can't fly DCS or any other credible flightsim without VR these days, it makes all the difference and you won't go back once you tried (and are immune to VR sickness). Just the same as with ED for many, including me. VR here makes all the difference. For DCS, they tested the FA-18 with real FA-18 pilots, and IIRC those said the sim basically behaves correctly, but only VR comes close to the real thing and pancake mode is just cumbersome even with headtracking. Look up C.W. "Mover" Lemoine (I think), there are YT videos about the comparison.
I can understand the guys not being able to run VR thinking it's an exclusive | neglible feature made for others, but then, such stances tend to remind me of the Evil Prince from Shrek 1: "Some of you may die, but that's a price I'm willing to pay". Nice. Losing VR support in ED is a major thing and IIRC unprecedented, a huge step back and just saddening. YMMV.
O7,
Oculus rift s at £399 is half the price of your average phone and one sixth that of a reasonable gaming machine. Not expensive compared.
And, the surface temps and pressures.
Five years time Star Citizen will be in beta, so maybe they will think about adding VR?!
No. Base. Building.
Or maybe there is a mechanic in the update that doesn't quite work in VR. Like forced animations for leaving the cockpit for instance.
