Fellow VR players, I think it's high time we had a virtual keyboard to lessen the agro of lifting our headsets to do such things as type in a system name on the galaxy map, and to chat to wing mates and randoms over comms.
I use voice attack and get by for most tasks using voice commands, I've even fudged entering system names on the galaxy map by making phonetic commands for a to z and 1 to 0 (including space and dash) which works ok but is a clumsy inefficient solution. You can forget using it for text chat via comms though - Uuuurgh
So, it would be lovely if I could hit a HOTAS button, or say a word to bring up the virtual keyboard so I can bind buttons on my HOTAS (HAT switch yum) to scroll around and select numbers/letters while in the galaxy map, or chatting to someone.
FDev, this would make me very happy. If you're going to support VR then I think you should be thinking of ways for us to not need to lift our HMD's and typing is the number 1 reason bar none.
TL;DR Lifting our VR headsets to type stuff is an instant immersion killer and a PITA, please give us an on-screen virtual keyboard.
Thanks and I'd appreciate other peoples opinions on this.
Kinky - o7
I use voice attack and get by for most tasks using voice commands, I've even fudged entering system names on the galaxy map by making phonetic commands for a to z and 1 to 0 (including space and dash) which works ok but is a clumsy inefficient solution. You can forget using it for text chat via comms though - Uuuurgh
So, it would be lovely if I could hit a HOTAS button, or say a word to bring up the virtual keyboard so I can bind buttons on my HOTAS (HAT switch yum) to scroll around and select numbers/letters while in the galaxy map, or chatting to someone.
FDev, this would make me very happy. If you're going to support VR then I think you should be thinking of ways for us to not need to lift our HMD's and typing is the number 1 reason bar none.
TL;DR Lifting our VR headsets to type stuff is an instant immersion killer and a PITA, please give us an on-screen virtual keyboard.
Thanks and I'd appreciate other peoples opinions on this.
Kinky - o7