Nothing prepared me for the experience

[B1ll Adama]

With regards to any feelings of chunderfest or queasiness so far *touch wood* not had any issues.

Was a VR virgin before last week and was a little nervous about the possible unwell feelings.. turned out no worries. Might have a lot to do with the timewarp CV1 uses? I am running on a 970 and 4790k - overclocked them both before setting up the CV1 and its amazingly smooth. Think there has been one noticable judder when on a planet but i was hooning around like a lunatic so it was deserved.

So far been in Elite for hours.. Eve a fair bit... Lucky's tale a bit and no sickness. CV1 is amazing... timewarp is amazing... hate to say this but i do feel sorry for the Vive owners right now as reading through the threads makes for sad reading - Oculus simply works and works well.

Quick update on the glasses or lack of, although i am a small prescription man '-1' on both sides i did find after an hour that my eyes were getting tired. So fashioned a device.. a contraption.. an invention so to speak. Took the arms off my spare pair of glasses, then took some dense black foam and cut 2 small pieces which sit in the sides of the CV1. Now took the glasses and used where the arms used to be to 'push' into the foam, leaving the glasses lens about 3-5mm from the CV1 lense... permenantly fitted. Now the CV1 is prescription fitted, i dont see the glasses when i am wearing it, dont notice them except that all is lovely and clear. Now the only thing that gets me out of ED is the GF talking at me and demanding i come back to real life.

 

[Sergio Smegolia]

Y'all don't know how lucky you are.

The other day the wife and the Daughter announced (with no discussion or anything) they had just booked us all a holiday that would set me personally back 1300 quid. I tried to explain that for that amount I could buy a sunbed, an OR and plug it into Google Earth and get the same effect without leaving the house!

<sigh> Didn't work though.

 

[Skaldy]

Got my Vive at last. Loaded up ED, enabled HMD, put it on. Instantly worked and looked great. What an awesome experience. Can't wait for Next Gen VR now.

 

[SenatorPerry]

Long time DK2 user. The range on the movement tracking is limited, but I recorded this last night of getting up and moving around in the cockpit of my Python:
[video=youtube_share;3mIF8m5eZsk]https://youtu.be/3mIF8m5eZsk?t=1m48s[/video]

I spend a lot of time just walking around and looking at the setup. A few things of note. The seat has an upside down sign, which gives the impression when you decide to "stand up" it will fold down into the floor. There are handles on the ceiling, but my guess is that you will simply stand up from your real chair. The ingame seat will collapse into the floor and you will be floating. You lean slightly forward or backwards in place to gain forward momentum towards the aft of the cockpit. Once you are there you stand up straight and look at the console you want.

The rough equal would be to sinking downward in water. You can angle your body with the motion of sinking to get from one place to another. It is just slow.

When in combat you would need to be tied down since inertia and momentum would mess you up. When in Supercruise and higher the ship these factors may not be in play as you are folding space outside of a bubble.

I have been asking for people that had a DK2 and went to a Rift, CV1, or whatever simply give away the Dk1 or DK2. Or set it up to demo to others. Don't leave them wasting away. The VR movement will only get stronger by sharing the experience. Donate it to a retirement home. Anything that can be done to sell the dream. Sometimes my only relaxation is when I am sitting in a busy RES at idle. LHS 6427 near Knight Station. It is so peaceful with low bass tones that put me to sleep so quickly.