I don't know if this has been mentioned, but why not allow using both touch controllers to pilot the ship?
Oculus touch and Elite dangerous...
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Real immersion breaker. One might as well use the Xbox controller then -less cumbersome.
On a side note- any Touch owners who have Doom3 BFG or want to buy it on Steam that haven't heard of the "Fully Possessed" VR mod should do yourself a favor and get it. It's still got a couple of bugs but no deal breakers. It now has full Touch support, including teleport< if you like that method of moving around. I prefer old school movement with the mini-sticks myself as full movement doesn't bother me. Like Ed is in VR, this is a totally new game in VR. It is also a perfect example imo of how a FPS should be in VR. You can play seated, standing and full 360. They have added a bunch of voice commands as well and so much more. Amazing work!
https://github.com/KozGit/DOOM-3-BFG-VR/releases
Touch controllers to control a spaceship truly in 6Dof would be very interesting. Especially if you move away from the joystick paradigm. Hotas is for aerodynamic flying, a spaceship would ideally be controlled differently. So touch makes sense, but it's unknown how exactly.
There was a video demo of a space game prototype where you simply rest the touch controllers on your arm rests and use them as joystick, but you can always move the touch controllers away from the armrest and activate virtual buttons in your cockpit.
Or even control the whole ship motion (each hand has full 6DOF after all) and use the other hand to aim your turrets.
You simply need to find a new way to do it. It's almost required if you ever want to combine walking around on your ship with flying.
There was a video demo of a space game prototype where you simply rest the touch controllers on your arm rests and use them as joystick, but you can always move the touch controllers away from the armrest and activate virtual buttons in your cockpit.
Or even control the whole ship motion (each hand has full 6DOF after all) and use the other hand to aim your turrets.
You simply need to find a new way to do it. It's almost required if you ever want to combine walking around on your ship with flying.
I suppose Touch gripping could be programmed, so one could grab the virtual controls, but without a tactile sense that the stick and throttle were in your hands it would be a beatch in the heat of battle. For example, one of the problems that I have with Golf Club VR is that I can't feel the club weight and distance to the ground is not consistant. Rather have my hotas.
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