Pilot hands vs. body movment in VR, can't win!

[Not an Eve:Valkyrie vs ED thread]

Have played a lot of ED, and a little bit of Eve Valkyrie so far.

In Valkyrie, I miss the animated pilot's hands from ED. Your clone's hands are glued to your dual joysticks, but never move, which looks really odd.

In ED, I miss the animated/rigged Valkyrie pilot's body that moves around with you when you move your head. If you lean out to the right, and look down, your body has leant with you. I find it a really neat little feature that does help with VR presence. Valkyrie handles your neck a bit better too, not showing a 'hole' when looking down sharply. It does hover do odd things to your VR-nether regions when you move about in your chair... lets just say clones obviously don't suffer from chafing. :eek:

If FD could rig the pilots body to get 'pulled around' by the HMD tracking, whilst keeping the animated hands on the controls you'd get the best of both worlds.
 
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I would totally love that detail. The current solution is good, but the body following the head would be great. However it would create quite some long necks, when you stand up.
I am really looking forward to 2.3 Commanders, when we can change appearance. I bet we will se lots of optimization then, maybe including the wanted feature.
 
I like the concept, but i find the eve implentation really off putting at the moment. The body leans when i turn my head! That doesnt happen IRL, i just turn my head. With a tweak it could be good though.
 
Last summer I made the current project to rebuild a desk with proper HOTAS placement (it was either that or get a new shoulder), cost me a few days of gaming and about $30.
Doesn't look to professional, but functions perfectly. And my HOTAS is pretty closely positioned about the same as in game, just attached to my desk and not my chair.

Now my first VR experience with ED was with the vive, and the in game body just looks so tiny.
Tiny arms. Tiny hands. Tiny legs. Tiny body, and all this post 2.1.

I now also have a CV1, and it is better but the in game body is still small.
The difference between the two is like a 9 year old and pretty much my 12-14 year old self.
And I'm not big, I'm just mid-upper range normal for a Norwegian at 183cm, but if I point at a hand in game I'm basically pointing right at my forearm below the wrist, which get's a tad weird if I obsess about it.
Althoug the brain is easily fooled, so unless I actually obsess about it it's fine and my sticks are positioned at my own measurements so it works practically.

Still, it's weird to be 13 years old again..

I know this might be slightly off topic, and I haven't tried EV yet.
Having served nearly a decade in Eve online I'm very much done with the whole ccp thing, and I ordered my rift a little late so I don't seem to get it for free, and I'm not paying $50 for a game that I consider to be the kid version of Elite.
 
I know this might be slightly off topic, and I haven't tried EV yet.
Having served nearly a decade in Eve online I'm very much done with the whole ccp thing, and I ordered my rift a little late so I don't seem to get it for free, and I'm not paying $50 for a game that I consider to be the kid version of Elite.

Definitely don't bother. Its fine as a starter experience or something to dip into but ED completely destroys it in every respect except accessibility. Oddly, given eve is a flagship oculus title i think the ED VR implementation in particular is actually head and shoulders better. Personally i find ED the most immersive experience possible at the moment and everything else has underwhelmed me. Possible exception of project cars with a wheel :).

Edit: but why would you drive a car when you can fly a spaceship? ;)
 
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Definitely don't bother. Its fine as a starter experience or something to dip into but ED completely destroys it in every respect except accessibility. Oddly, given eve is a flagship oculus title i think the ED VR implementation in particular is actually head and shoulders better. Personally i find ED the most immersive experience possible at the moment and everything else has underwhelmed me. Possible exception of project cars with a wheel :).

Edit: but why would you drive a car when you can fly a spaceship? ;)

I have been toying with the idea of getting a g29 for my vive and project cars.

But I kind of ended up ordering the cv1, one slightly hung over morning...
So I really really can't afford it now. And i just don't see much point in either hotas car racing or xbx controller...
 
Haha. I've not yet caved and ordered a vive to go with my CV1. I can see myself wiring hdmi and usb points for the vive in the living room and keeping my CV1 cockpit setup as it is, so there would at least be... a rationale...

Haven't tried any room scale yet, so up for being well and truly whelmed by that at some stage.
 
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