Idea of Scale

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My IPD is measured (with ruler and oculus tool) and set to around 60mm and everything except the pilot and the seat looks to be the right scale for me. If I look at the flight stick in game and afterwards to the stick on the desk it seems there are about 20 cm difference between the positions though it feels like I have positioned them in the same way.
I guess it could be some sort of post processing in the brain because the distance to the floor is higher in VR and my brain knows the real floor distance when I'm in my chair. Or is the avatar smaller than 1.8 meters (I guess if it is 1.6m the view could fit)?
 
How about the lock size when you leave/enter the station? The bigger ship the smaller it looks for me, when I tried it in Anaconda I had the feeling I'm trying to squeeze my ship through 2 meter wide gap, something looked very incorrect (this is with correct IPD and lens separators fitted in DK2 to adjust for that). Anyone else has similar problem?
 
How about the lock size when you leave/enter the station? The bigger ship the smaller it looks for me, when I tried it in Anaconda I had the feeling I'm trying to squeeze my ship through 2 meter wide gap, something looked very incorrect (this is with correct IPD and lens separators fitted in DK2 to adjust for that). Anyone else has similar problem?

Nope, even in my T9 the docking port is huge. One thing I have noticed is the Avatar in smaller ships is not the same size as the Avatar in the T9/Conda.
 
My IPD is measured (with ruler and oculus tool)

As a side note, it's worth noting that the Oculus IPD measurement seems to be fairly precise, if you do exactly what it says. I had it professionally measured by an optician using fancy equipment a week before my Rift arrived, and the values agreed. I know, that's not a lot of data points, but might be a useful anecdote.
 
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As a side note, it's worth noting that the Oculus IPD measurement seems to be fairly precise, if you do exactly what it says. I had it professionally measured by an optician using fancy equipment a week before my Rift arrived, and the values agreed. I know, that's not a lot of data points, but might be a useful anecdote.

Yes I use it too, always comes out the same (to within -/+ 0.1mm) and is always comfortable. Getting it right is what got the in game scale perfect for me
 
I have only tried out the OR briefly, however I have had some issues of "comfortableness" but I couldn't work out why, after reading this I'm now wondering if it's a height issue.

In real life I'm 6'7", its possible that walking or sitting in a "short" avatar is what is doing it?

I've had 30 odd years of being the height I am and all of a sudden I can't see the tops of people heads and the door frames all look really high when I have the VR head set on.
 
Do all those ones you quote as being looking right have adjustable avatar height and the others not? Or is avatar height taken from the DK2 setup in someway. Afraid I don't have one and don't know.

If it's possible to set avatar height in those that are looking right then set it to an average 1.8m and see if that stops them looking right?

Well worth investigating methodically.
They only reset camera position similar to the Elite reset. I've tried changing height in the settings before and it didn't fix Elite for me. I've tried it at 150 and 177cm.

I thought of a simple test which proves the pilot model is small. I lifted up the headset slightly so I could easily look out the bottom and lined my hand up with the position of the throttle hand in the game. I then compared the position of the pilots elbow to my own. The in game pilot elbow is only about 3/4 of the way down my arm so it's a fair bit smaller. I'm 177cm tall, so it's not like I'm a lanky dude.
 
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They only reset camera position similar to the Elite reset. I've tried changing height in the settings before and it didn't fix Elite for me. I've tried it at 150 and 177cm.

I thought of a simple test which proves the pilot model is small. I lifted up the headset slightly so I could easily look out the bottom and lined my hand up with the position of the throttle hand in the game. I then compared the position of the pilots elbow to my own. The in game pilot elbow is only about 3/4 of the way down my arm so it's a fair bit smaller. I'm 177cm tall, so it's not like I'm a lanky dude.

The question keeps getting ignored so it would seem possible the avatar (and maybe the pilot seat(s)?) are not quite to scale. I have seen many people comment on the smallness of the avatar.
 
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Mike Evans

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The fact the question keeps getting ignored it would seem evident the pilot seat(s) and avatar are not quite to scale. I have seen many people comment on the smallness of the avatar regardless of their IPD or height settings.

People come in all shapes and sizes, the pilot model is almost certainly not going to match your own personal shape and size and so will look odd in your eyes even if all the settings are correct. The pilot (male one at least) is 1.85 metres tall on a reclined pilot seat that is to scale with everything else correctly as I've already said multiple times.
 
People come in all shapes and sizes, the pilot model is almost certainly not going to match your own personal shape and size and so will look odd in your eyes even if all the settings are correct. The pilot (male one at least) is 1.85 metres tall on a reclined pilot seat that is to scale with everything else correctly as I've already said multiple times.

For what its worth I consider myself average build and quite short. I think I'd need to be a super slender Elven Child to get anywhere close to the Male Pilot represented in the game.

I'm just going to choose to believe that in the year 3301 low gravity environments have created humans with smaller, more fragile bodies.
 
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The question keeps getting ignored so it would seem possible the avatar (and maybe the pilot seat(s)?) are not quite to scale. I have seen many people comment on the smallness of the avatar.

Many people question his lankiness (low grav induced muscle atrophy?), and those questioning his size have their IPD wrong. But the model is scaled correctly with the seat and the rest of the world as the guy who made it has officially said.
 
Many people question his lankiness (low grav induced muscle atrophy?), and those questioning his size have their IPD wrong. But the model is scaled correctly with the seat and the rest of the world as the guy who made it has officially said.

But thats assuming everything is to scale. Has that been officially confirmed yet?
 
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