Buying A Rift On Friday..... Camera Question

Mav359

Mav359
Morning

Friday is the day and i have become a child waiting for Christmas again.... longest week ever....

Question

Do i need more then one camera for elite baring in mind I'll be sat at my desk in front of it? Should i buy more? I don't have any intentions to use it beyond elite for now so im not buying the controllers but i'd invest in another camera if it was needed.

Cheers
 

VR andysonofbob

VR andysonofbob
You have everything you need for ED!

You only need additional cameras if you are playing standing games. For cockpit games like ED or PCars etc, where you are in one spot, what you get in the box is all you will need. :)

Will you be able to look *all* around your cockpit? Yes. Will you be able to walk around the cockpit of the smaller single pilot ships? Yes.
Will you be able to walk around the larger ships? No. That's what the camera suite is for ;)

To temper (fuel) your expectations:
Imagine you are wearing slightly smudgy glasses where the smudges areas only really noticeable on light sources when the scene is dark; you are wearing snorkling gear (reduced side to side field of view) and that you have slightly poor eyesight (things aren't fully sharp).

With those conditions in mind, now imagine putting yourself in an actual real spaceship. Imagine seeing those handles looking chunky and real. Imagine sitting in an SRV with the wheels and staring up at the sidewinder! That is what it is like.

Mate! It's nuts.

EDIT - if for some bizarre reason you do choose to buy the extra sensor - spend the extra £40 to buy the Touch controllers. If you filter out the average free stuff you get and only focus on the super amazing free games / apps (Robo Recall, the two art packages, Google Earth VR), the extra £40 investment is fully worth it. The Touch controllers are really good. I can't believe I was sceptical.
 
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Ashnak

Ashnak
One camera ("Sensor") is enough for ED. I have mine set up slightly above head height at 11 o'clock, and that's good enough even for getting up and walking around the cockpit/bridge.
 

TorTorden_VR

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Again one camera is enough.

It it could be a little vulnerable if say you have cat that sometimes jump on the desk etc, or kids who realise it's superfun to wave their hands in front of it.
A second camera does help to stabilise, but it's certainly not very needed. I was fine with a single camera for almost a year before I bought the touch controllers.
Seriously robo recall is brilliant.

Do not buy a spare camera.
You really should buy the touch controllers instead, they add tremendously to the whole experience
And you get a few great games with them.
Not having them down the line feels like having half a VR system.

Again in general, no rush to get it. for elite you are good to go.
 
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han

han
Yeah should work great with 1 sensor in elite, but if you want to walk around the cockpit, 2 is a lot better. Also if you get the touch controllers in the future, highly recommend having 3 sensors for roomscale tracking
 

Mav359

Mav359
thanks for all the advice guys, i'll leave the sensor initially then. till haggelling with myself over the controllers
 

TorTorden_VR

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Mav359 said:
thanks for all the advice guys, i'll leave the sensor initially then. till haggelling with myself over the controllers
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Again for elite they don't serve a purpose, so feel three to save them for a birthday, Christmas thing.
Who knows, maybe oculus will be running a black Friday deal.
I'm just, I have no information.
 

Verlaine

V
Elite will work with the Rift and one sensor but will have more stable head tracking with two sensors. If you have the cash, I'd recommend buying Touch because it comes with a second sensor and will open up a new world of VR games.
 

Fire70

Fire70
I have one and its totally fine except if you want to walk to the side of you ship to look out the window...

Sitting down one is only required..
 

VR StarLightPL

VR StarLightPL
Many of us including me started with DK2 which had only one sensor, so, yeah, it will work pretty well. That said, as a Vive user, do yourself a favour and get touch at earliest convenience. Once you go VR you don't look back, really, and there is awesome content upcoming (Doom, Fallout 4, Skyrim). I personally don't believe Zenimax (Bethesda's owner) will block the support for oculus, they simply won't sell it on official oculus channels and your controllers will look like vive wands :D (kinda same thing what we Vivers put up with oculus store games via Revive :D).
 

Frank

Frank
TorTorden said:
I do all my 'walking' in the camera these days anyway.
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Aye!


Walking around the ship is great fun for a while, but eventually you get back to the game. The last time I got out of my chair for a better view of the outside was when I got hyperdicted by that flower ship.

There is one advantage to VR that I use every so often. Sometimes I lean forward in my seat to examine my instruments, to see where the door is on the holo-fac of a Coriolis station
 

Hell Razor5543

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I believe that the Rift CV1 now comes with the Touch controllers, and this should include a second camera. I have just checked on the Oculus website, and the Rift + Touch controllers DOES have two cameras.
 
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VR StarLightPL

VR StarLightPL
Frank said:
There is one advantage to VR that I use every so often. Sometimes I lean forward in my seat to examine my instruments,
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I do that too, also opening panels by looking at them just for the fun of it (not terribly convenient, but fun). For longer operations (adjusting modules, mucking around with cargo / materials etc.) I open them via shortcuts, so they stay until dismissed. You gotta be careful though, because it steals focus

Frank said:
to see where the door is on the holo-fac of a Coriolis station
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I almost never do that now, you can easily determine which side has the exit via observation - first you determine the rotation axis and then you check which side has the entrance (back of the coriolis is reinforced, and front has lights and traffic). You can also use rule of thumb to do it as all (Coriolis?) stations rotate in the same direction. I don't remember which tho :D
 

Mav359

Mav359
just taking a look on amazon, the rift by itself comes with (according to the box contents) 1 sensor (£479) & if you buy it with the Touch Controller (£578) you still only get 1 sensor, if you buy them separately the Touch Controllers come with a sensor and they are £100 so if i buy them separately I'll get the extra sensor for free essentially..... odd

just gonna buy the lot i reckon
 
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