I personally flip up my visor onto my forehead everytime I need to search a system. It’s annoying for sure. Not enough to not play in VR though, too fantastic a sight not to.
Soft Keyboard for VR - Please... like, pretty please
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I personally flip up my visor onto my forehead everytime I need to search a system. It’s annoying for sure. Not enough to not play in VR though, too fantastic a sight not to.
Not at all, if you are using a HOTAS/ virtual keyboard combo
So how do you set it up, I’m curious to try?
Currently using a T1600M, X52 throttle, Saitek Pedals. Configured so I essentially fly the galaxy map with the flight controls. Mouse or trigger button can be used for selection. Voice attack can auto type for me, touch controller to use the virtual keyboard.
Below are my galmap bindings.
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So you are still using a second controller for the keyboard. I guess it is better than taking off the headset for a keyboard. Still prefer in game keyboard.
I am on Vive not on Oculus. No keyboard I can pull up and enter data into the game. A built in softkeyboard within the game would be something that is bound to the game not the hardware/platform. They already have this keyboard/support for this keyboard type in the console versions of Elite. It just happens to be a quality of life thing I would like to see. So all of the VR users would have the option and as mentioned previously, even have it be a toggle option for all players so they never NEED to use the keyboard for communication or galaxy map searches. Right now I am busy training VoiceAttack to do dictation but it is pretty terrible for it. I love Voice Attack for everything else though, so not knocking VA. A softkeyboard would solve a lot of problems and only serve to improve the quality of life for the elite players. If someone does not want to use the keyboard, they don't have to. There are no stats to balance as there is no inherent advantage. It is all in the interest of making the user experience better.
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I do believe there are various options for windows out there for VR users.
So it already exists.
The general reason why the games themselves do not do this, is because the keyboard is generally an OS thing.
It isn't Elite's keyboard on consoles, it the consoles own method of entry.
But this should work in VR and on PC as well as long as you install the software.
How do you get Voice Attack to auto type?!
![Cmdr Delmonte[VR]](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/82/82957.jpg?1711998379){kind=avatar}
Yes Please !!! VrR Keyboard is very much needed
First things first, tons of games have software keyboard inputs in some form or another. Few games rely on OS rendered soft-input.
Show me the software keyboard overlay for VR that isn't the built in Oculus keyboard. Don't worry, I'll wait.
This is probably the best solution available at the moment for anyone who doesn’t want to use a keyboard.
Three things bring it down for me though.
1. You still have to switch from your HOTAS to another input device.
2. The on-screen keyboard remains in your cockpit when you’re not in the galaxy map.
3. Every time you load up the game, you have to pin the keyboard in your ship, so it’s an additional step each time.
I don’t know if Frontier has any plans to address VR QoL in any of their coming small updates or the larger one in 2020, but VR doesn’t need too much, and even this little bit would go a long way, not to mention that it would also benefit all the non-VR players who’d rather use their preferred controller without switching to a keyboard.
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Yes, the on-screen keyboards for consoles are available through the relevant SDKs I believe, which is why Frontier would need to develop their own. It’s still very trivial in terms of development though, and quite worth it in my opinion, as it can benefit all users, not just in VR.
I don't blame them either, but let's be realistic, as ED players we're going to ask FDev for a solution, not the dozens of VR tech companies that supply the hardware to various CMDRs.
Most VR games that require input, have easily made little VR keyboards that achieve that. FDev either just doesn't want to do this, essentially shafting VR users which there are many or we have to wait till the big upgrade, where maybe the engine will also be able to sort lists? Woah. And/or be able to retain your preferences so it always sorts by "online first" so I dont have to go set that every login. People should stop trying to convince folks this is hard stuff to do. Impossible with the current engine? Maybe. But if possible, not hard to do.
Rant over, back into the game, in VR.
Rant over, back into the game, in VR.
Well, I can only hope that the devs take a look and give this a consideration. It would improve life in VR in this game 100 fold.
VR is the ONLY way to play a game such as this. Please, please FDEV may we have a soft VR keyboard in-game???
So you are in Elite Dangerous using this to input data in VR? What is this app called? Looks like it was put together in Paint, given no links are cited and this screenshot is clearly not in Elite Dangerous in order to prove the point... I would have few other assumptions to make. Got a link for this app or some proof of it working in Elite Dangerous or even being available to the public? I would also like to know the release date because I made this comment back in April... it's June now.
Even stranger, when I drop this into google image search I get a bunch of results for computer keyboard clipart. Odd...
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No. I did not know the question was on a non- FDev, non- O/S virtual keyboard that would still have to work in ED specifically. I thought there was confusion on the existence of such 3rd party virtual keyboards in general:
Maybe the confusion was completely on my side, in which case I apologize. Happens sometimes since English is not my first language.
It's a business app I'm not advertising here.