On the fence of buying a Rift (vs large screen TV)

I am gaming on a 42 inch plasma right now. Plasma because of the the superior motion vs a LED.
I am sitting quite close around 80cm. So it gives me a good immersion of being in the cockpit. Also have a Track-IR and voice attack. And of course a HOTAS.

Now, will a Rift give the impression of a smaller "World" in the cockpit compared to sitting close to a 42 inch screen?

Will it feel more distance?

I really have no idea myselft so perhaps some of you who haad big screens with ED can give me some comparisson :)

Thanks.
 
I am gaming on a 42 inch plasma right now. Plasma because of the the superior motion vs a LED.
I am sitting quite close around 80cm. So it gives me a good immersion of being in the cockpit. Also have a Track-IR and voice attack. And of course a HOTAS.

Now, will a Rift give the impression of a smaller "World" in the cockpit compared to sitting close to a 42 inch screen?

Will it feel more distance?

I really have no idea myselft so perhaps some of you who haad big screens with ED can give me some comparisson :)

Thanks.

Up until I recently got my CV1 I gamed on a 55" LCD and boy does that feel TINY compared to being in the Rift!!

It's difficult to even compare as obviously the TV will only display a small part of your cockpit whereas in VR you get to see (and walk around) your entire cockpit. Nothing can prepare you until you experience it.

I was watching a few video's in the Oculus video app and also on the Virtual Desktop this weekend where you can choose being in a cinema setting and it really does feel like you're in the cinema looking at a HUGE screen!! At one point I almost put my real life drink in the cinema seat cup-holder. This will hopefully help give you the best idea of the difference in scale until you actually try it yourself.

I can wholeheartedly recommend getting into VR. I have very little enthusiasm in playing on the TV screen now.
 
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It is hard to explain just how wonderful it is to look around freely in the cockpit without thinking about it. VR wins every time.
 
i have a 70inch TV here...... I sold my DK2 back in december.

The period between then and getting my CV1 in May Elite was a very "flat" experience. ED in VR (or any cockpit flight / racing game) is just incomparible to a monitor experience, even more so a single monitor experience.

size is NOT everything its like the difference between playing a space ship flying game vs actually being IN your space ship

if you have the PC to run it, VR is worth it imo.

PS everything in VR is MASSIVE not the other way around.
 
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VR wins as far as immersion goes. As others have said - you have to experience it yourself to know what it's like.

It is however, a bit anti-social if you have friends round (unless you let them try it too of course!), and if you get the judders it can make you physically sick.
 
I have a 142 inch HD projector. I have no doubt when my CV1 gets here Weds, the projector will be relegated to desktop duties only. If you read through these oculus threads you will see that almost every CV1 user won't go back to monitor play once they have a Rift, regardless of how good their monitor was.
 
Even a 200" monitor would still not be as good as VR!
I can no longer play ED (or Warthunder) on monitor. If My oculus broke I would just stop playing all games altogther.
 
Last year, when I built my computer, I had no intention of playing ED in VR. In fact , I hadn't even thought of it. So, I was ignorantly happy chugging along on my small 1080p monitor. Then, one day, a month or two after getting used to ED play in flat-d, my brother asked me if I wanted his dk2 bc my computer could handle it. Like everyone else said, everything changed. I can no longer play on a monitor. VR is the closest you will come to being in space, flying, in your ship. There's no comparison. Some ppl don't like it...I don't understand how or why that is for them, but I love it.
I've added things like voice attack to make it more immersive. There are still challenges, things that may be annoying (typing, for instance), sometimes voice attack doesn't fully respond, but I won't go back to a monitor. I have and I didn't like it at all.
 
A quality monitor used to be central to the experience. Now it's just used to double click the ED icon to start in VR. I could actually downgrade to 640x480 mono screen and be perfectly happy, which is just nuts.
 
What the Rift brings to ED is almost indescribable, you have to experience it. The immersion is insane - ED isn't a thing you play anymore in VR, its a place you go.
 
beware with VR, if you are not convinced, better to wait, because once you go VR you won't back :p

Would be easy to say.. go for VR, but it's not so easy,

It's the first generation, and still many things have to go better,, it's like i want to enjoy this experience, but the more i want it the more i feel frustrated, sometimes.

God rays, constant stutter...there are a lot of things to polish , on the vr device, in the games made for it, (Elite has a lot of ocassional stutter even with a 980ti), and in the actual hardware.

I have mine, i love it and i will keep it, but it's just sometimes i decide not to play because i don't wanna deal with those issues, and at the same time, i don't wanna play with the monitor anymore.
 
beware with VR, if you are not convinced, better to wait, because once you go VR you won't back :p

Would be easy to say.. go for VR, but it's not so easy,

It's the first generation, and still many things have to go better,, it's like i want to enjoy this experience, but the more i want it the more i feel frustrated, sometimes.

God rays, constant stutter...there are a lot of things to polish , on the vr device, in the games made for it, (Elite has a lot of ocassional stutter even with a 980ti), and in the actual hardware.

I have mine, i love it and i will keep it, but it's just sometimes i decide not to play because i don't wanna deal with those issues, and at the same time, i don't wanna play with the monitor anymore.

Strange as it may seem I don't suffer hardly at all with God Ray's and I'm running 980ti and its smooth as glass with everything set high. Maybe it's because I'm running it from a M.2 drive with 32GB RAM? I dunno maybe I'm lucky
 
Strange as it may seem I don't suffer hardly at all with God Ray's and I'm running 980ti and its smooth as glass with everything set high. Maybe it's because I'm running it from a M.2 drive with 32GB RAM? I dunno maybe I'm lucky

I opened another thread talking about this

i don't wanna go off topic in this thread, but would like to say God rays doesn't bother me too much at this point , i moved up the gamma slider so everything looks more washed now but pretty clear and with not many reflections,

But since some days i notice a lot of stutter or image flickering when i turn my ship or there are several activity in the area.. in asteroid fields it goes even worse, i have monitored my system and i don't notice heavy load in any of the components, Graphics cards, SSD or whatever.

Which OS do you use? i have 8.1 and 8GB ram, planning to buy extra ram and upgrade to w10 soon.
 
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I opened another thread talking about this

i don't wanna go off topic in this thread, but would like to say God rays doesn't bother me too much at this point , i moved up the gamma slider so everything looks more washed now but pretty clear and with not many reflections,

But since some days i notice a lot of stutter or image flickering when i turn my ship or there are several activity in the area.. in asteroid fields it goes even worse, i have monitored my system and i don't notice heavy load in any of the components, Graphics cards, SSD or whatever.

Which OS do you use? i have 8.1 and 8GB ram, planning to buy extra ram and upgrade to w10 soon.

Windows 10

It's a new build so everything is fresh - all except the latest nvidia driver. I've come to realise with nvidia that if it ain't broke don't fix it
 
I am gaming on a 42 inch plasma right now. Plasma because of the the superior motion vs a LED.
I am sitting quite close around 80cm. So it gives me a good immersion of being in the cockpit. Also have a Track-IR and voice attack. And of course a HOTAS.

Now, will a Rift give the impression of a smaller "World" in the cockpit compared to sitting close to a 42 inch screen?

Will it feel more distance?

I really have no idea myselft so perhaps some of you who haad big screens with ED can give me some comparisson :)

Thanks.

No comparison. I sit no more than 3 feet from my 60" led tv with 4k upconversion and the immersion is nothing close to vr. But VR isn't "looking at a screen", it's actually "being there". I would take the DK2 with the "screendoor effect", let alone the CV1 or Vive over three 60" tvs set up for surround vision. Once you play this game in VR, you realize it's the only way to truly enjoy this game.
 
No comparison. I sit no more than 3 feet from my 60" led tv with 4k upconversion and the immersion is nothing close to vr. But VR isn't "looking at a screen", it's actually "being there". I would take the DK2 with the "screendoor effect", let alone the CV1 or Vive over three 60" tvs set up for surround vision. Once you play this game in VR, you realize it's the only way to truly enjoy this game.
For some people the graphics sharpness > than everything else including immersion. They are usually the loudest about why VR sucks, etc, etc. I am with you, still waiting on the CV1 to arrive, but seriously enjoying my DK2 in the meantime even if it looks nowhere near as sharp as 4k monitor. The immersion simply IMO cannot be beat.
 
My gaming screen is a 64" plasma 4 feet from my flight sim set up. It can't hold a candle to the immersion and feel of a CV1. I use the big screen for every game but ED, but when it comes to ED the CV1 is an absolute no brainer. The head and positional tracking, the "depth" of everything - you feel like you're "in" a cockpit vs "in front of" one - plus the sense of scale. Get the CV1!
 
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Strange as it may seem I don't suffer hardly at all with God Ray's and I'm running 980ti and its smooth as glass with everything set high. Maybe it's because I'm running it from a M.2 drive with 32GB RAM? I dunno maybe I'm lucky

Your fast drive and your RAM have nothing to do with the god-rays (they will help a bit with frame-rate slowdowns on asset load of course).

God-rays are just an artifact of the fresnel lenses, not the rendered image.

You're just not that sensitive to the god-rays - that's a good thing! [up]
 
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Your fast drive and your RAM have nothing to do with the god-rays (they will help a bit with frame-rate slowdowns on asset load of course).

God-rays are just an artifact of the fresnel lenses, not the rendered image.

You're just not that sensitive to the god-rays - that's a good thing! [up]

Probably so yeah.

Sorry I wasn't really connecting god Ray's and smoothness, just a general comment with poor wording lol
 
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