Pretty much what the title says, no VR in Odyssey was never acceptable, so we kicked up a stink, and Frontier met us half way with "VR in cockpit as it is just now but switching to a virtual flatscreen rendered in the headset when on foot". This decision strikes me as the company being wary about adding VR with 3d headlook on foot as it can be a nausea trigger, and I can understand them not wanting to get a rep for having a big paid DLC as being a barf-fest.
However, I cannot help but think that as the VR 3D headlook code already exists in game, and could theoretically be copied from cockpit into on foot sections of the games code, that the upcoming alpha would be a good time to test just how bad it would be? Worst case scenario is some people find it nauseating and they can switch to the virtual flatscreen as a comfort option, best case is it's not as bad a nausea trigger as they fear it might be and is warmly received by the community. It's essentially a "you'll never know unless you go" situation, and the findings will be the embodiment of "your mileage may vary" but I'd dearly love it if Frontier gave us a chance to "put on our big boy pants" and test the mettle of our VR legs, and give us the ability to select as an option in graphics settings "VR on foot: 3D headlook / Virtual flat screen".
I'd like to reiterate that this change isn't a 6-month undertaking, not even 6 days as far as I can tell given the mythos of greg, one man one day and we had VR, so it would not necessarily delay the game for the wider playerbase.
Am I the only one who would welcome this?
However, I cannot help but think that as the VR 3D headlook code already exists in game, and could theoretically be copied from cockpit into on foot sections of the games code, that the upcoming alpha would be a good time to test just how bad it would be? Worst case scenario is some people find it nauseating and they can switch to the virtual flatscreen as a comfort option, best case is it's not as bad a nausea trigger as they fear it might be and is warmly received by the community. It's essentially a "you'll never know unless you go" situation, and the findings will be the embodiment of "your mileage may vary" but I'd dearly love it if Frontier gave us a chance to "put on our big boy pants" and test the mettle of our VR legs, and give us the ability to select as an option in graphics settings "VR on foot: 3D headlook / Virtual flat screen".
I'd like to reiterate that this change isn't a 6-month undertaking, not even 6 days as far as I can tell given the mythos of greg, one man one day and we had VR, so it would not necessarily delay the game for the wider playerbase.
Am I the only one who would welcome this?