The VR Dashboard "V" is now in Open Beta!

[Junky Juke]

Hey I tested it today. Works like a charm, except it totally messes with my ED keybindings!!! lol
I play ED with Joystick and Keyboard and I have a lot of key combos to assign multiple tasks to the joystick buttons. So if I hit ths shift key to activate my chaff/SCB/HS set, hello V comes in and recenters. overlapping with ED.... I guess I will not be able to use this nice app until it becomes more friendly with games that use a lot of keyboard keys.

 

[Munial]

I have real trouble getting this to behave too - when I turn on the interface I start pitching uncontrollably - ok Its not a biggie as I can just circle while I set up my youtube screen - but a much bigger problem is that I cant get back into the interface later when I want to watch something else - my xbox controller literally wont stay on! It a very weird thing, but it just turns straight off again - definitely not battery/ fault related, its being told to switch off.. means I cant then change what im watching. Actually turning V off is a nightmare as well, I have to shut the whole game down to get rid of the window..

apart from that, its great! when's netflix coming?

 

[Verlaine]

Any way to force V to work at any FPS? I can open V in ED, but neither the browser nor the apps work since I'm at 45 FPS locked with ASW enabled.

Also, my tray icon disappears when I mouse over it. I'm using Win10.

Edit: V opens in ED, but every app and ther browser is just an empty white square with no content.

 

[Franc Kaos]

Any way to force V to work at any FPS? I can open V in ED, but neither the browser nor the apps work since I'm at 45 FPS locked with ASW enabled.

Also, my tray icon disappears when I mouse over it. I'm using Win10.

Edit: V opens in ED, but every app and ther browser is just an empty white square with no content.

Same issue here, did get Youtube playing a video but when the window closed could still hear it playing and the only way to close the thing was to exit the game.
I'm also using a HOTAS system.
My question tho' (once everything is working) can the window be pinned to the central virtual screen in game, pref at the same size. I couldn't find a way to even move the screen.

 

[Gunner Deckard]

Any news on Vive Support ETA?

 

[mindfaQ]

That sounds good! We kinda need a straight-forward dashboard solution that works without much trouble.

 

[X-Terminator]

I can open it allright but when I try and click on it on the taskbar it disappears
inside of VR the xbox controller works well V is there but YouTube and everything else
just gives me a blank screen

Same here exactly. I maybe getting around 30 to 45fps in the CV1 so won't play. Either that or it's a conflict of bindings. I use Shift for F/A in game. ASW=OFF and start E from it's own launcher. Can't right-click V icon in task bar. Can use XBOX Gamepad but nothing appears in the boxes. I also use VA but tested it without also. No HOTAS but use Mouse/keyb.

 

[Henri]

I have switched off firewall, virus program, account control, installed flash and still it auto closes and when it does not it works fine except there is nothing inside the window.
would be nice if anyone knew how to fix...

 

[VR andysonofbob]

I am really enjoying the app!

One thing

Do you think you will add directional sound? Or the option to? I have my youtube window to the right of the cockpit but the sound is in the middle.

Totally minor but it did seem wierd.

Wierd because the app works so well!

 

[rennarda]

This seemed to have a negative impact on frame rate for me. How do I uninstall it though?

 

[han]

just go to uninstall program in control panel.

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Also really like the app and wondering if you guys are adding a 16:9 format screen for youtube and netflix in the future? And like the other guy said, 3D sound would also be a great feature

 

[connectwithv]

Hello Guys,

Sorry for disappearing from the thread, things have gotten really busy for me personally as well as for the team. The good news is there has been some amazing progress in V for both new features like full Oculus Touch support, as well as lots of fixes for Elite (like the roll/pitch bug when you bring up V while flying).

There is still no change to 16:9 yet for the browser window, but that is something we do want in the future, it just takes more effort than expected to change, similar to the way the Keyboard input changes are taking more work than expected.

There will be a BIG release soon so as soon as it is released I will post here with all the details and look forward to all feedback for it.

 

[[VR] Merkir]

This looks like great software. Congrats on an excellent initiative.

I have just one question before I take the plunge, has anyone performed any benchmarking to determine the FPS drop when using it with Elite?

 

[CylonSurfer]

This looks like great software. Congrats on an excellent initiative.

I have just one question before I take the plunge, has anyone performed any benchmarking to determine the FPS drop when using it with Elite?

Considerable dip in performance. Its fine in Supercriuse and open space, causes stutters in stations, RES and planet surfaces - basically anywhere you struggle to keep 90FPS. Not unplayable, but noticable. It really needs a disable completely and re-enable option.

 

[[VR] Merkir]

Considerable dip in performance. Its fine in Supercriuse and open space, causes stutters in stations, RES and planet surfaces - basically anywhere you struggle to keep 90FPS. Not unplayable, but noticable. It really needs a disable completely and re-enable option.

Thanks for the feedback.

To the developers, for ED in VR we need every FPS we can get. Is there any chance an enable/disable function could be implemented so that we could temporarily disable at times we need higher FPS?

 

[CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE]

I am unable to get this working (tried 2.2 live and 2.3 beta).

Have followed the instructions and looked at the FAQ on the website. ED never shows up in the V GUI window to inject. Using the regular launcher. FPS>80. The FAQ says to manually inject by pasting the process name into the GUI but I am not able to do that - it only lets me select from the pull-down. Haven't had time to try it with any other VR apps yet.

Any ideas?

Rift CV1.
AMD 390X latest 17.2.1 drivers.

 

[connectwithv]

I am unable to get this working (tried 2.2 live and 2.3 beta).

Have followed the instructions and looked at the FAQ on the website. ED never shows up in the V GUI window to inject. Using the regular launcher. FPS>80. The FAQ says to manually inject by pasting the process name into the GUI but I am not able to do that - it only lets me select from the pull-down. Haven't had time to try it with any other VR apps yet.

Any ideas?

Rift CV1.
AMD 390X latest 17.2.1 drivers.

On the still public version, this can sometimes happen with Elite. (It was a finicky game for a good while, new update fixes a lot of stuff). Try launching Elite first, get fully ingame, then start V. It should auto inject if not instantly, in a little bit. If it doesn't at all, and it doesn't appear in the dropdown list, then something is up.

You are launching through Oculus Home / Steam but not SteamVR / Official Launcher correct?

Also does V work in any other games? Farlands? Lucky's Tale?

 

[Ren Garris]

I'll test as well.
I've really wanted to get V working but I have been unable thus far.

When I get home, I'll try your method and see what happens.
-Launch ED, then Launch V after the game is running.

I launch ED from the ED launcher- NOT Steam or Oculus Home.

Thanks for popping back in. Not getting V to work has driven my crazy.

 

[CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE]

Just tried again. No joy. Here's what I did:

1. launch Elite from the FD Launcher, waited til in the cockpit
2. start V, waited a few seconds
3. two taps
4. looked at Show GUI - elitedangerous64 does not show in the list
5. waited for 1 min, tried again, nothing.

Will try another app/game when I get the chance.

 

[Ren Garris]

Oh yeah... Now I remember what happens when I run V... It crashes ED. The whole 'something has gone wrong' error. Crashes back to the launcher.

It does this when I open BEFORE and AFTER starting ED.

980ti
i5 660K
16GB RAM
WIN 10

So yeah. I just did a fresh install of V. Same thing.
When the 2.3 goes live, I'll do a fresh install of both ED and V.
Till then, I'll be one of the great unwashed.

.... Unless you have some insight....