Aces High + Oculus Rift: Virtual Reality Headset Setup

[eagl]

With a halfway decent hotas stick/throttle setup and a keyboard with the little bumps on F and J keys, you won't need to see the keyboard.  Or get a custom programmable accessory gaming keyboard to map specific commands to the gaming accessory keyboard.

With my old Saitek hotas, I almost never had to touch the keyboard.  If you're buying an oculus rift setup, you can certainly afford a decent programmable stick/throttle...

[terrydew]

"I wrote the drivers to support the Oculas at the end of July. With the demo version,I found the resolution to be low to be worth releasing support for it at this time.

Other issues are things like you can not see your key board to position your hands to type.

When they release a hi res version of it, We may add support for it, coupled with tracker ir for translation control.


HiTech

The new dev kit 2 is to ship next month. It has 1080P and head tracking built in. Any chance you will release drivers for it?

[zack1234]

What said software?.

[save]

I'm only using my PS3 to watch Blue Ray's, my Raspberry PI with a USB drive is doing multimedia for me.
I'm still pissed they killed Linux for PS3.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/game/3528510/vastly-improved-second-gen-oculus-rift-vr-headset-starts-shipping-to-developers/ the dev kit 2 shipped.

[Vulcan]

With a halfway decent hotas stick/throttle setup and a keyboard with the little bumps on F and J keys, you won't need to see the keyboard.  Or get a custom programmable accessory gaming keyboard to map specific commands to the gaming accessory keyboard.

With my old Saitek hotas, I almost never had to touch the keyboard.  If you're buying an oculus rift setup, you can certainly afford a decent programmable stick/throttle...

^ this. Between HOTAS and Vox I don't care about the keyboard.

So far I've used the following with AH:

Emagin Z800 (really good):


Vuzix VR1200 (headset sucked tbh):


and of course the Rift DK1 (awesome):


Rift with AH Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q51xXnLgj4

Vuzix with AH Video (2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsUnNADVC90

Z800 with AH Video (2009): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITQ9HFiRY_0

[terrydew]

Vulcan do you have a dk2 on order?

[Vulcan]

Vulcan do you have a dk2 on order?

yup.

[Rob52240]

I'm getting one as soon as AH supports it.  I see that DK2 adds front/back /left/right tracking as well as yaw pitch and roll.

And includes a camera so you can see the keyboard (if you never bothered to learn how to type) and your beer.

[TWCAxew]

Gotta order my oculus rift as soon as AH supports it 

 

[Sombra]

Another competitor to OR, this one has 1200x1080 resolution per eye.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/04/htc-vive-hands-on/

If HTC doesn't want to support OR, maybe you could bribe the finnish guy that implemented OR for a 10 year old game...

[Gman]

Some pretty impressive reviews of the preview version of Valve/Steam's VR headset.  Looks like OR is going to have some serious competitors, Sony is making one as well.  That can only be good for consumers, can't wait to see what comes in the next year with these things.