Which headsets are supported?

[Crazy Harry]

Dear all,

I am still wondering about the VR headsets that will be supported by Elite: Dangerous. I can't find the definite answers on the forum. It would be great if someone makes a sticky post in the VR forum about supported headsets.

I remember reading a post from Michael on the forum, saying Elite wouldn't support OSVR because it would take up too much development time to support every VR Headset as every headset could break the game. I can't find the post though.

Is Elite supporting OpenVR from Valve, and thus supporting the HTC Vive?

I also found this post:

Brooks has already stated they will build native support for all the VR headsets that are released.

Which says the opposite of what I remember to have read.

 

[Fyrd Judge]

Reading this http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/04/review-elite-dangerous-is-the-best-damn-spaceship-game-ive-ever-played/2/ David Braben explained to Ars at GDC that Elite almost certainly won’t implement support for the OSVR initiative

 

[Crazy Harry]

Ah thanks for linking that, it might be that what I remember to have read and not a post on the forums.

So that's a pretty clear answer for OSVR although it doesn't seem definitive.
The question for OpenVR stays open then. I hope Frontier will support that because I want to have a choice between headsets and not being tied to one.

I read in the news section on the OSVR site that OpenVR is compatible with OSVR: http://www.osvr.com/blog/?p=67
And as OSVR is also compatible with the rift (according to OSVR), maybe Frontier should reconsider the support for OSVR. It clearly is also for other VR peripherals like the Virtuix Omni, so including it in their Cobra engine would also open possibilities for other games genres. And of course, actually be able to walk on the planets when planetary landing is included in Elite would be cool