That it will. I looked into the upgrade side of OSVR, and found that it's actually not only possible, but has already happened - the switch to 2.0 from 1.3/1.4 involved an upgraded screen, which was previously at 1920x1080/60Hz. Installing a new panel apparently renders the HMD's USB3 port unusable (at least for 1.3/1.4 users,) but the screen was and is replaceable. This obviously makes me a happy monkey.
I decided that I wasn't going to play BF1 tonight (I usually play it every day) and would just focus on getting the HDK2 set up and working properly. I made some good progress with all the issues I outlined in previous posts - the fan does work, but it does tend to give me dry eyes, and I've fashioned a little foam cushion that folds neatly into the space where my nose goes and makes everything much more comfortable. I even had time to get my Sidey almost fully upgraded - just 200kcr more and I can afford a class 2A fuel scoop. I was so impressed with the new experience that I decided to wipe my save and start again from scratch. I'm planning to basically play FA-off all the time. It's about time I learned to play with fixed weapons FA-off. Indeed, I was rather surprised that FD changed the default loadout to gimballed weapons - it used to be that you spawned with two fixed pulse lasers. Actually, I was a little (only a little though) disappointed with how easy it is to make money now. I've spent less than half an hour in HIRESes and have made more than 500kcr killstealing from the Feds.
I'm a sweaty bloke myself too (well, I'm from the North, with a pale blue tinge to the skin on the parts of my body that never see sunlight) and live in the south-west of Japan, which is about 10-15° warmer on average than my home. Like I said, though, the fan worked a treat angled across my seating position. I've also found that after a while misting stops being a problem - I guess the LCDs operating for more than, say, an hour at a time eventually warms the lenses to a point where the difference between the lens surface and ambient temperature isn't high enough to cause condensation.
Umm... yeah. No. Roller coasters aren't really my thing, which is interesting given how I like trying to make myself sick in VR.
Arduino will work - if you can work out how to poll the speed data from the game client.
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