Hello CMDRS I'm excited to day Tuesday I will be receiving my oculus rift but had some nio. Questions. I run the version of ED direct from frontier so no steam launcher. Would I just connect the occculus rift and the launch ed as normal? Currently at work but I thought there was a break setting under the graphics option. Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated thanks
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It's a doddle.
Once your Rift is setup through the Oculus Home, pop it on your head.
Start ED. If it does not appear in your headset, then once in the game, go into Settings > Graphics and then look for the 3D section. Choose the Rift from the Drop down.
Away you go!
BTW, take it easy if it's the first time in VR, it can make some people a little queasy.
Fly safe.
Once your Rift is setup through the Oculus Home, pop it on your head.
Start ED. If it does not appear in your headset, then once in the game, go into Settings > Graphics and then look for the 3D section. Choose the Rift from the Drop down.
Away you go!
BTW, take it easy if it's the first time in VR, it can make some people a little queasy.
Fly safe.
Also make sure your Rift is set up to allow outside software to run. Can't remember the actual phrase but there are 2 switches on the "Setting" screen that both need to be On. Other than that, it's pure plug and play 
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I think its just one seting;
After installing Oculus Home, go to Settings>General
Switch the top option on for Unknown Sources - "Allow apps that have not been reviewed by Oculus to run on my Rift"
This allows any external program to access the Rift.
Launch ED.
Oculus Home should start, or if you left it running, ED will just pop up on its own in 2D
Go to Options>3D and set the option to HMD (Speakers) or HMD (Headphones), whichever is appropriate.
If there's no sound in ED;
You might have to right-click on the volume control in the Windows system tray>Playback devices> set the Rift headphones to default device in order to get sound.
Can't remember if you need to exit out and start ED again for the change to HMD to actually take effect. It might just switch okay without a re-launch.
Now put the Rift on your bonce, and look at the target rectangle for a coupe of seconds - then bam, you should see a new hangar with the SRV in it along with a green Eagle ship.
Load as normal.
Next time you want to play ED, you can just launch ED from the normal launcher, and it will open Oculus Home by itself, then ED will start.
After installing Oculus Home, go to Settings>General
Switch the top option on for Unknown Sources - "Allow apps that have not been reviewed by Oculus to run on my Rift"
This allows any external program to access the Rift.
Launch ED.
Oculus Home should start, or if you left it running, ED will just pop up on its own in 2D
Go to Options>3D and set the option to HMD (Speakers) or HMD (Headphones), whichever is appropriate.
If there's no sound in ED;
You might have to right-click on the volume control in the Windows system tray>Playback devices> set the Rift headphones to default device in order to get sound.
Can't remember if you need to exit out and start ED again for the change to HMD to actually take effect. It might just switch okay without a re-launch.
Now put the Rift on your bonce, and look at the target rectangle for a coupe of seconds - then bam, you should see a new hangar with the SRV in it along with a green Eagle ship.
Load as normal.
Next time you want to play ED, you can just launch ED from the normal launcher, and it will open Oculus Home by itself, then ED will start.
Trust me, you will love it. It really brings the game to life.
I just got my Rift on friday and it was on my head most of the weekend..
Few things to be ready for:
1. How shockingly low the resolution is. Just be ready for your first little bit of time to be taken aback at the fidelity difference if you were like me and played with everything maxed on ultra before
2. How amazing it is once you get past that.
Few things to be ready for:
1. How shockingly low the resolution is. Just be ready for your first little bit of time to be taken aback at the fidelity difference if you were like me and played with everything maxed on ultra before
2. How amazing it is once you get past that.
Got mine last Thursday and agree with you fully on both points, the next gen (or maybe after that) headsets are gonna be even better than what we have now....which is scary ni a good way
It's not bad as in blurry..
It is bad as in there are just not close to as many pixels making up the image as you are used to.. especially on things far away it is like holding your face up to those old CRT tv's.
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Yeah i keep thinking the same thing. It shows me that the future isn't about pushing the resolution farther on a 2d screen but instead getting the vr space caught up with where things are now. It is already awesome and all that but man if you think 5-10 years from now? exciting
It is bad as in there are just not close to as many pixels making up the image as you are used to.. especially on things far away it is like holding your face up to those old CRT tv's.
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Got mine last Thursday and agree with you fully on both points, the next gen (or maybe after that) headsets are gonna be even better than what we have now....which is scary ni a good way
Yeah i keep thinking the same thing. It shows me that the future isn't about pushing the resolution farther on a 2d screen but instead getting the vr space caught up with where things are now. It is already awesome and all that but man if you think 5-10 years from now? exciting
Also not so much a tip but something to consider. When playing in the ye olde fashioned single screen 2D mode you might have had a key bound to a hat which allows you to bring up the 4 panels (left/right panels, comms panel and crotch panel). In VR you can simply look in the area and the panel will automatically open which sounds like a great thing but in practice I found it really annoying so I reverted back to these buttons. It means that when I look left for example I have to hold the button down and flip the hat to the left to being up the screen and it is sticky until I press the button again to make it go away. I am happy with this but it took a bit of time to get used to it because while one of the side panels is up my vertical thrusters don't work. Took a while to get used to turning the panel off if I wanted to use the vertical thrusters. Might be a way to fix this but I haven't looked into it.
It is still awesome now.. I could have returned mine but I am already in love with it.. your1070 will serve you well. It's just important to hear that the first reaction you will probably have is "man this doesn't look that good at all" your later reaction will be "holy crap this is amazing"
This might well be the best advice posted in the history of the forums. Drinking in VR is the biggest issue you will need to solve
^^ Here, Here! & A'men! ^^
I have melted onto a sun while trying to sneak a drink in (lifting the rift from my face) during hyper space jump!