In game browser (especially helpful for VR users)

Gunship · Dec 11, 2018

Elite is amazing in VR, the cockpits are great and you get a much more immersive experience. That is until you need to look something up on a website

Even when playing normally the Alt tapping to and from sites is somewhat frustrating.

I would love if the open source Chromium (that is what google chrome and soon Microsoft Edge is using underneath) could be implemented in-game. For VR users a little pop-up keyboard would also be most welcome with some predictive text help.

Sunyavadin · Dec 11, 2018

So long as they make it so we can use the FSS from the cockpit before they make it so we can visit the frontier store from there.

But I'm pretty sure we'd see the latter first since the former doesn't make them more money.

Gunship · Dec 11, 2018

Fair point, but I would not mind paying a DLC of £20 for a build in browser.

777Driver · Dec 11, 2018

Gunship said:
Elite is amazing in VR, the cockpits are great and you get a much more immersive experience. That is until you need to look something up on a website

Even when playing normally the Alt tapping to and from sites is somewhat frustrating.

I would love if the open source Chromium (that is what google chrome and soon Microsoft Edge is using underneath) could be implemented in-game. For VR users a little pop-up keyboard would also be most welcome with some predictive text help.

Why not just use Oculus dash? You can have a 60" screen onboard the ships with you. Or even a Cinema size screen floating outside the ship. Pretty sure Vive has it's own version.

Virtual keyboard included, plus some other toys.

[video=youtube;SvP_RI_S-bw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvP_RI_S-bw[/video]

Gunship · Dec 11, 2018

Oculus can do stuff that HTC vive can't

Jonono · Dec 11, 2018

I second that motion, that would be a great help.

xondk · Dec 11, 2018

Something like this?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/382110/Virtual_Desktop/

Gunship · Dec 11, 2018

xondk said:
Something like this?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/382110/Virtual_Desktop/

HTC Vive can't run both game and that at the same time, I tried, spoke to a Dev who confirmed my failure was real.

777Driver · Dec 11, 2018

Gunship said:
HTC Vive can't run both game and that at the same time, I tried, spoke to a Dev who confirmed my failure was real.

Am fairly certain there is a program for Vive, I watched streams of vive users running some software way before Oculus dash was released.

Only watched a bit of this video. Looks like he has a crude version working.

[video=youtube;LGT7N0anII4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGT7N0anII4[/video]

BurntJello · Dec 12, 2018

I tried this one once (Vive and since I'm on win7): https://github.com/Hotrian/OpenVRDesktopDisplayPortal
It was functional. I actually forgot about it until I saw this thread.

Ozram · Dec 12, 2018

OVR Drop is clunky but it works. I sometimes use it with EDR, a plugin to edmc. Ah, FDs E

, land of acronyms.
Edit: but yes, some added assistance with the old VR would be nice.