ANNOUNCEMENT Odyssey: Update on VR and Ship Interiors

Darkfyre99

Darkfyre99
el_tel2 said:
Genuine question - What existing FPS games out there support VR without teleportation or inducing nausea?
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It depends upon how susceptible you are to VR sickness, naturally. Personally, as long as I'm standing, and not depending upon some kind of controller to turn my avatar's body, pretty much any game I've played so far that allows for traditional movement has been fine for me. That would be Vivecraft (aka VR Minecraft), Fallout VR, Subnautica(kinda), and No Man's Sky(also kinda).

It's trying to play a game from a seated position, using a controller to turn my avatar's body, that I start having problems. Which is what makes No Man's Sky such a frustrating experience. It's designed to be played from a seated position, while using a controller to turn my avatar's body. Trying to play the game using roomscale is such a poor experience, I gave up after a few hours. Subnautica on the other hand doesn't support motion controllers, only game controllers, which makes trying to play that particular game in VR somewhat frustrating. At least I can turn my body naturally.

Which is why I'd rather Frontier give me a monitor in VR to play Elite Feet, than go with a half-arxed experience. If they're not going to go full roomscale, I'd prefer a more traditional experience.
 

Dragsham

Dragsham
Im thankful the fdevs have gone to the trouble of the seamless srv to on foot VR transition. We begged em to do something and they did.
I commend em for it.
Its not what we want. No but that will come in time no doubt.
Besides they've odyssey itself its rollout to worry over.
Im glad of the announcment as were 1000s of other VR elite cmdrs.
Just be patient.
All good things come to those who wait.
 

Qualityoflife

Qualityoflife
If u get sick from VR just go ahead and puke till your wretched carcass get used to it.
"At first u don't succeed, keep on sucking till u do succeed".
-commander Shakespeare 3306.
 

Hydrino

Hydrino
Holy Schmoly. I finally took the dive on a VR headset and got an Oculus Quest 2.

While I desperately need a graphics card update... and While I previously supported the complaints about the original 'no VR in Odyssey' announcement.

I now want to add a loud push for and support FD to make Odyssey fully VR! Other games let players run around in FPS just like with mouse and keyboard and don't make everyone sick. FD should just go for it and maybe offer the 'flat screen' as a tick-box option for players that get sickness, like the SRV options for VR.

The comments that a flat panel simply doesn't convey the scale of things in the game cannot be over-stated.

I expected a bit of wow factor, and I'm sure I'll get over that part, but it was more like WOWEE ZOWEEEEEE.

Ships and landing bays are HUGE! it's an entirely different experience.

Having "walked" around the landing bay and cockpit as much as the game and my room allow, I now see what a shame it will be to not be able to view the world in VR out of the pilot's seat.

In a few years VR headsets will likely have the power to be fully wireless. The Quest 2 is already less than a new Xbox or Playstation, although it still need a bit of a beefy GPU. I expect a lot of new VR headset owners after this holiday season.

I sure hope FD is seriously planning for this.
 

VR Jay Le Chardon

VR Jay Le Chardon
It's worth pointing out that the quest 2 can already run games that were originally requiring a decent PC and an oculus rift, such as robo-recall. So extrapolating that curve would see the future standalone headsets having enough schutzpah to run say, Elite Dangerous, on the integrated computer. If you think this sounds crazy, let me simply point you in the direction of the reviews of the new arm powered MacBook, that leaves the intel predecessor in the dust while using a fraction of the electrical power.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1r_fzvQLmo
 

VR Jay Le Chardon

VR Jay Le Chardon
Qualityoflife said:
With new generation tech there is now no excuse besides skill lack to not have VR!

Let's c what the excuse is this time
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CMDR Darth Vater

CMDR Darth Vater
Hydrino said:
Holy Schmoly. I finally took the dive on a VR headset and got an Oculus Quest 2.

While I desperately need a graphics card update... and While I previously supported the complaints about the original 'no VR in Odyssey' announcement.

I now want to add a loud push for and support FD to make Odyssey fully VR! Other games let players run around in FPS just like with mouse and keyboard and don't make everyone sick. FD should just go for it and maybe offer the 'flat screen' as a tick-box option for players that get sickness, like the SRV options for VR.

The comments that a flat panel simply doesn't convey the scale of things in the game cannot be over-stated.

I expected a bit of wow factor, and I'm sure I'll get over that part, but it was more like WOWEE ZOWEEEEEE.

Ships and landing bays are HUGE! it's an entirely different experience.

Having "walked" around the landing bay and cockpit as much as the game and my room allow, I now see what a shame it will be to not be able to view the world in VR out of the pilot's seat.

In a few years VR headsets will likely have the power to be fully wireless. The Quest 2 is already less than a new Xbox or Playstation, although it still need a bit of a beefy GPU. I expect a lot of new VR headset owners after this holiday season.

I sure hope FD is seriously planning for this.
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you need to play the game to realize that no VR and no Ship Interiors is a huge fail on players expectations.
 

Hydrino

Hydrino
CMDR Darth Vater said:
you need to play the game to realize that no VR and no Ship Interiors is a huge fail on players expectations.
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I would tweak the start of that as, "You need to play the game in VR to realize . . . ".

Given that the game already supports VR, I'm curious as to the why behind FDev decision "no" to continuing that to on-foot. Is a technical issue with how Elite Feet are set up, or more a matter of time, or something else entirely like all the devs that tried it puked. :sick:
 

Hydrino

Hydrino
Vincent_Vao said:
Will odyssey be first person only or third person as well??
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As far as we know, first person only. No news of how camera suite will operate on-foot. That was answered in the recent AMA session - which as usual didn't really answer much of what was asked and sometimes indicated long-running/old requests and suggestions were "news" to FD.
 

VR Jay Le Chardon

VR Jay Le Chardon
Hydrino said:
I would tweak the start of that as, "You need to play the game in VR to realize . . . ".

Given that the game already supports VR, I'm curious as to the why behind FDev decision "no" to continuing that to on-foot. Is a technical issue with how Elite Feet are set up, or more a matter of time, or something else entirely like all the devs that tried it puked. :sick:
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There is no shortage of VR player volunteering to be alpha testers...

Vincent_Vao said:
Will odyssey be first person only or third person as well??
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First person only.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Hydrino said:
As far as we know, first person only. No news of how camera suite will operate on-foot. That was answered in the recent AMA session - which as usual didn't really answer much of what was asked and sometimes indicated long-running/old requests and suggestions were "news" to FD.
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Yes I noticed that there was a form of 'omerta' in a lot of the answers. :)

At one point I almost wondered why this thread was created. :unsure:

🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠😷
 

michalfoc

M
haha it seemed like there where 4 answers scripted and rotated:
A. We are not allowed to divulge any information at this time,
B. We don't know
C. It's a great idea, we will pass it onto the dev team
D. We don't know

Edit: sorry, at 1 point they got creative and gave us E. {redacted}... ;)
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Jibroni Gibironi said:
Exactly....I'd rather they focus on fixing the bugs currently in the game now, and making other minor tweaks such as some of things I suggested than on VR. I'll take a fully fleshed out title over a pile of hot garbage with VR any day.
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You say that like it is a either / or scenario. ED IS currently a VR title and ED:O has been in development for a number of years.

I like to think both could be possible. That said if I personally had a choice of a totally bug free game that I have no interest in playing Vs a game I REALLY want to play but with some bugs which I can work around....... I would choose the latter.

To each their own however.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
el_tel2 said:
Genuine question - What existing FPS games out there support VR without teleportation or inducing nausea?
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That really depends on the person. I play NMS, From other suns, Doom 3, Obduction, (Half Life Alyx when I get it) and a whole bunch more I can't think of all with full locomotion without issue

I also play Alien Isolation and vanishing of Ethan Carter but those are hard on my VR legs.
 

michalfoc

M
[VR] Mad Mike said:
You say that like it is a either / or scenario. ED IS currently a VR title and ED:O has been in development for a number of years.

I like to think both could be possible. That said if I personally had a choice of a totally bug free game that I have no interest in playing Vs a game I REALLY want to play but with some bugs which I can work around....... I would choose the latter.

To each their own however.
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+1
 
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