HOLY COW!!!!!
I have been playing ED since beta started and This changed everything
. Its not all smooth sailing but I have to say I did not expect it to effect me in the way it has.
The good:
I found it to be a truly fantastic experience overall. It totally surprised me.
For any that have an oculus I hope you have actually looked around the cockpit. I don't just mean head turning. I mean get up out of the chair and walk around having a close look at everything. This Blew my mind!!!!!
hehe I was down on hands and knees checking out little indicators that turn out to be the Seat Controls for the two seats in my cobra. Damn Brilliant.
Flying the training missions that take place in the ice fields and getting up close and personal to the roids is also mind blowing.
The difference in gameplay with the VR head tracking compared to TrackIR is truly the next level and is so much more natural with things behaving as expected.
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The bad:
The oculus still has a way to go though. The DK2 Res is sub par when split across two eyes. I found I had to keep leaning in to the left and the right panels to read them. Coming from a 4k display obviously this was a big step backwards resolution wise. But the 3D experience was amazing and made up for it. I Use the hack to change the Hud Colour to Blue and this made a huge difference to the readability. It was much better but all the other colours are wrong with that hack so I don't like using it.
the Oculus is too hot to wear in the summer.
Compensating for chromatic aberration does not seem to work well. the stars seem a little off (again that's an oculus thing rather than a Elite thing)
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As well as being susceptible to VR sickness, which I hope to overcome by slowly increasing my exposure, I am also in a group of people that sees objects at the wrong scale in the oculus. This has nothing to do with the PID setting (well the ones they provide). It makes little or no difference to scale for me pushing it from one extreme to the other.
For example if they Put me in a house, all of the rooms and furniture seems a little smaller than it should be.
In The elite cockpit, all the controls and the pilots hands look like a small child version. Also getting up out of the chair and looking at the headless pilot sitting in the seat, he looks like a small boy rather than a full size man.
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This is not a crit of elite. I seem to be experiencing it in all VR games through the oculus.
.
Now if I can just stop myself from getting dizzy when I barrel roll in the station I might be able to cope.
.
This oculus is a loaner. I am hoping the next higher res one overcomes the shortfalls to some extent.
But I am so glad I experienced it.
I have been playing ED since beta started and This changed everything
. Its not all smooth sailing but I have to say I did not expect it to effect me in the way it has. The good:
I found it to be a truly fantastic experience overall. It totally surprised me.
For any that have an oculus I hope you have actually looked around the cockpit. I don't just mean head turning. I mean get up out of the chair and walk around having a close look at everything. This Blew my mind!!!!!
hehe I was down on hands and knees checking out little indicators that turn out to be the Seat Controls for the two seats in my cobra. Damn Brilliant.
Flying the training missions that take place in the ice fields and getting up close and personal to the roids is also mind blowing.
The difference in gameplay with the VR head tracking compared to TrackIR is truly the next level and is so much more natural with things behaving as expected.
-
The bad:
The oculus still has a way to go though. The DK2 Res is sub par when split across two eyes. I found I had to keep leaning in to the left and the right panels to read them. Coming from a 4k display obviously this was a big step backwards resolution wise. But the 3D experience was amazing and made up for it. I Use the hack to change the Hud Colour to Blue and this made a huge difference to the readability. It was much better but all the other colours are wrong with that hack so I don't like using it.
the Oculus is too hot to wear in the summer.
Compensating for chromatic aberration does not seem to work well. the stars seem a little off (again that's an oculus thing rather than a Elite thing)
-
As well as being susceptible to VR sickness, which I hope to overcome by slowly increasing my exposure, I am also in a group of people that sees objects at the wrong scale in the oculus. This has nothing to do with the PID setting (well the ones they provide). It makes little or no difference to scale for me pushing it from one extreme to the other.
For example if they Put me in a house, all of the rooms and furniture seems a little smaller than it should be.
In The elite cockpit, all the controls and the pilots hands look like a small child version. Also getting up out of the chair and looking at the headless pilot sitting in the seat, he looks like a small boy rather than a full size man.
-
This is not a crit of elite. I seem to be experiencing it in all VR games through the oculus.
.
Now if I can just stop myself from getting dizzy when I barrel roll in the station I might be able to cope.
.
This oculus is a loaner. I am hoping the next higher res one overcomes the shortfalls to some extent.
But I am so glad I experienced it.
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