It was an absolutely accidental event that I ran into a conversation about ED and VR in a FB group - someone was asking about a few techniqualities and I wished I could use my Playstation VR on Elite, I'd buy the PS version.
One of them then - as it was the most obvious thing - threw in the magic sentence: "You can use the PSVR on your PC!"
Really?! The idea has fully eluded me as I didn't even dare to hope anything like this could be possible for a plethora of reasons and yet!
I did a bit of search with my heart pumping (I'm a PC player mainly) and a couple of days later I concluded to get the iVR driver pack from Steam (OMG, Steam! It's been in front of my nose for I don't know how long!)
The first time I managed to start up the game was an experience I'll never forget - oh, that undescribable sensation of... of... of that iconic cockpit and a Coriolis hangar! The quality by default has not been great, I saw the patches of those lines of text absolutely unreadable but I knew them well anyway, an array of pixelated an low-res ambience and still, I've been over the moon, it was revolutionary and unbeatable.
Then I spent another load of time configuring the whole environment step by step and now I get a sharp and readable wall of text everywhere, even with the smallest fonts of top left/right panels.
My first flight has been an absolute marvel, a thrill I couldn't expect or imagine.
This is what we were craving for as kids in the late '80s when the C-64 was sweating to draw all those lines as fast as possible, we have built a "cockpit" with my cousins in a free corner of a room using mattresses and blankets around the TV and the C-64 and flew countless hours calculating trading loops and profits.
The grand scale of things in this game is mesmerizing, I'm so grateful to be able to see this and immerse myself into this wonder.
Right now I'm just sitting in my Cobra Mk3 docked on a Leesti Coriolis, using the "back of the cockpit" camera, listening to beautiful space-inspired music and just watching the ships in the hangar coming and going - an Asp rolls into its final on landing, a T-10 lifts up and inches towards the mail slot, steam is pumped into the air creating a hazy ambience, a beam of light runs through the surface of the dashboard and it paints everything purple for a couple of seconds, station announcements echoing between those majestic walls of the station, a bilboard flickers and changes to a Lakon advertisement and I'm just sitting in my dim rear of my cockpit inhaling this terrific influx of joy on full scale and will keep doing this for hours and hours.
A very important title of my bucket list has now been ticked.
I owe you a heartfelt thank you Frontier for making this happen! And even more, I'm just lacking the phrases.
One of them then - as it was the most obvious thing - threw in the magic sentence: "You can use the PSVR on your PC!"
Really?! The idea has fully eluded me as I didn't even dare to hope anything like this could be possible for a plethora of reasons and yet!
I did a bit of search with my heart pumping (I'm a PC player mainly) and a couple of days later I concluded to get the iVR driver pack from Steam (OMG, Steam! It's been in front of my nose for I don't know how long!)
The first time I managed to start up the game was an experience I'll never forget - oh, that undescribable sensation of... of... of that iconic cockpit and a Coriolis hangar! The quality by default has not been great, I saw the patches of those lines of text absolutely unreadable but I knew them well anyway, an array of pixelated an low-res ambience and still, I've been over the moon, it was revolutionary and unbeatable.
Then I spent another load of time configuring the whole environment step by step and now I get a sharp and readable wall of text everywhere, even with the smallest fonts of top left/right panels.
My first flight has been an absolute marvel, a thrill I couldn't expect or imagine.
This is what we were craving for as kids in the late '80s when the C-64 was sweating to draw all those lines as fast as possible, we have built a "cockpit" with my cousins in a free corner of a room using mattresses and blankets around the TV and the C-64 and flew countless hours calculating trading loops and profits.
The grand scale of things in this game is mesmerizing, I'm so grateful to be able to see this and immerse myself into this wonder.
Right now I'm just sitting in my Cobra Mk3 docked on a Leesti Coriolis, using the "back of the cockpit" camera, listening to beautiful space-inspired music and just watching the ships in the hangar coming and going - an Asp rolls into its final on landing, a T-10 lifts up and inches towards the mail slot, steam is pumped into the air creating a hazy ambience, a beam of light runs through the surface of the dashboard and it paints everything purple for a couple of seconds, station announcements echoing between those majestic walls of the station, a bilboard flickers and changes to a Lakon advertisement and I'm just sitting in my dim rear of my cockpit inhaling this terrific influx of joy on full scale and will keep doing this for hours and hours.
A very important title of my bucket list has now been ticked.
I owe you a heartfelt thank you Frontier for making this happen! And even more, I'm just lacking the phrases.
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