Request: Add touch screen ability to left and right consoles for VR users.

[Tryst]

Having the consoles is OK, but in VR, you have to know where the keyboard is and be a touch typist to use it since you can't see it. The alternative is to bind a joystick control like the top hat to the navigation of those screens. Great if you have a very expensive HOTAS with loads of buttons for everything.

Being able to reach out and touch the screen with your finger to select things would make it more immersive and less annoying.

Of course, it would only work if you have a tracker attached to your hand or have tracking cameras for hand movements, but most people can get around that. Even if it means strapping the controller upside down on the back of your wrist in order to track your arm movements. Since the controller buttons do nothing, it doesn't matter that you're touching the pad on the controller with your arm. It just needs a setting to flip the hand so the controller doesn't make it appear upside down as well. Foot trackers would work just as well for the hands to do this.

 

[[VR] Orodruin]

Not going to happen. This would require adding motion controller support and panels with direct interactions. The panels cannot even be clicked with the mouse in pancake mode and on most ships they are too far away to reach while seated in VR.

The alternative is to bind a joystick control like the top hat to the navigation of those screens. Great if you have a very expensive HOTAS with loads of buttons for everything.

It is enough with a single hat. You can bund UI interactions to the same hat as other commands and when the panels are open they will take priority.

An invaluable tip for a HOTAS with fewer buttons is to use one button as a modifier key as that effectively doubles your available keybinds. (You can bind key combinations to keybinds)

 

[Craith]

I'd like to have this functionality, but it is way down on my priority - proper VR support in Elite on foot being way higher up the list (3D rendering only, not roomscale)

 

[VR Golgot]

That would be hella good, but we're not gonna see any dev like that with FDev all focused on '2D EDO' mode for the foreseeable.

Maybe down the road, if we cross all our fingers. Having a virtual cockpit, allowing foot-to-ship play all with motion controllers, would be a great option to have for EDO

In the meantime why not try one of these mods?

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCRBfDAD-qk&t=170s

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndIan0YCL-I&t=440s

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I'd like to have this functionality, but it is way down on my priority - proper VR support in Elite on foot being way higher up the list (3D rendering only, not roomscale)

Not tempted by this suggestion thread Craith?

Allow the VR '2D screen' to be disabled?

Hello lovely devs! This suggestion is based on some major assumptions, but it would be great if it were possible. Initial Assumptions: That the stereoscopic render used for ships & SRVs in EDO functions in Legs mode. That the 2D screen mode for Legs can be set to toggle on or off...

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[aXeL]

Having the consoles is OK, but in VR, you have to know where the keyboard is and be a touch typist to use it since you can't see it. The alternative is to bind a joystick control like the top hat to the navigation of those screens. Great if you have a very expensive HOTAS with loads of buttons for everything.

Being able to reach out and touch the screen with your finger to select things would make it more immersive and less annoying.

Of course, it would only work if you have a tracker attached to your hand or have tracking cameras for hand movements, but most people can get around that. Even if it means strapping the controller upside down on the back of your wrist in order to track your arm movements. Since the controller buttons do nothing, it doesn't matter that you're touching the pad on the controller with your arm. It just needs a setting to flip the hand so the controller doesn't make it appear upside down as well. Foot trackers would work just as well for the hands to do this.

If you have a WMR headset just make sure Cortana is running and say "Torch on". The headset will let you see through the cameras to type and then say "Torch off" to go back to normal view. Don't have to guess where the keys are. Use this on my Reverb.

 

[Tryst]

If you have a WMR headset just make sure Cortana is running and say "Torch on". The headset will let you see through the cameras to type and then say "Torch off" to go back to normal view. Don't have to guess where the keys are. Use this on my Reverb.

If you read my signature, you'll see I have a HTC Vive. It does have a camera but it's really low res and only good for seeing obstacles but not much else, you certainly couldnt read the keys on a keyboard with it.

 

[[VR] Orodruin]

Using the keyboard with the headset on is not very difficult in my experience. Yes, I touch type, but for using the keyboard as a controller you anyway have to learn where your inputs are - you do not actually look at the keyboard when you fly if you are on k+m for example.