Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable

[Eagler]

Thanks Tshark!

Which one do you have? The 5k or the 8k?

Eagler

[AKIron]

If I was inclined to jump back into VR, I'm not, I would go with a Pimax Crystal. I've used the first Oculus Rift, the Quest 2, and the Reverb G2. The Pimax Crystal is in another class.

[AKIron]

Thanks Tshark!

Which one do you have? The 5k or the 8k?

Eagler

Tshark can correct me but I believe the 8K was the precursor to the Crystal. The Crystal res is 2880 x 2880 per eye.

https://pimax.com/8kx-vs-crystal-what-are-the-differences/

You can find the Pimax Crystal on sale or a deal. Think my brother got his for $1,200. Could be wrong. Might have been a lightning deal like this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pimax/comments/18tqnv0/pimax_crystal_amazon_lightning_deal_for_1223/

[edge12674]

Yes, the Pimax Crystal is the next gen above the 8K.  Pimax is working on the 12K, but it is at least another 2 years away.  Currently the Pimax Crystal is "state of the art" in VR. 

As far as Aces High is concerned just imagine the image you see on a 4K monitor rendered in VR with the same clarity and with 3D and head tracking added in. 

For games like DCS, the eye tracking allows for foveated rendering so that your computer only does high res where you are looking.  You don't notice any difference in your perceived visual, but your computer is getting a 35% or better performance boost.

[AKIron]

I didn't know much about the fovea and macula until I had an occlusion a few years ago. It's a struggle to read with just that eye now. You might be inclined to think you could notice a significant reduction in resolution of an area adjacent to that where your fovea is focused. You can't.

If you want to test that for yourself pick a spot at the end of this sentence and focus your eyes on that spot, maybe put your cursor there to help keep your focus. Without moving your focus see how far away from that spot you can read the words that are in your view.

You might think, yeah, I can't read it without "looking" at it. Exactly.

[edge12674]

Or if you have eyeglasses just focus on the center of your screen, then without moving your head look at the four corners of your monitor.  You will notice the corners are blurry.

[edge12674]

BTW-if you have a VR headset without eye tracking you can use "foveated fixed rendering" in DCS.  This will give you a performance boost by high res rendering in the "sweet spot" only.  You will have to move your head instead of just your eyes to look around, but you are already doing this with any VR headset that does not have eye tracking.

[edge12674]

This looking good and progressing faster than thought.

[DmonSlyr]

This looking good and progressing faster than thought.

Looking pretty good. I know it will probably end up looking pretty nice overall. I hope their engine does have a good damage model. My all time favorite damage model is Battlefield 4, where buildings crumble and walls blow out next to you. I don't understand why more games haven't gone that direction. Takes realness up a notch. I just hope it's not cheesy like WT. Too many cheesy games now. I want this to be a hard-core game for the older crowd and not geared towards children. Hoping it the flight model feels good as well. I know it's gonna be a while, but it certainly feels they are dedicated.

[edge12674]

They are scheduled to appear at the Flight Sim Expo in Vegas this June.  The developer hopes to have an "early access" flyable version available to all this summer as well.

More info here:

https://forum.combatpilot.com/topic/48-combat-pilot-developer-diaries/#comment-7823

[CptTrips]

Looking pretty good. I know it will probably end up looking pretty nice overall. I hope their engine does have a good damage model. My all time favorite damage model is Battlefield 4, where buildings crumble and walls blow out next to you. I don't understand why more games haven't gone that direction. Takes realness up a notch. I just hope it's not cheesy like WT. Too many cheesy games now. I want this to be a hard-core game for the older crowd and not geared towards children. Hoping it the flight model feels good as well. I know it's gonna be a while, but it certainly feels they are dedicated.

From his last interview I listened to, it seemed clear to me he was going more toward the high-fidelity end of the scale.  Whether he wants to go to the fetish level that DCS does is not clear.  I'd like that level of FM, I don't know about every cockpit switch clickable.  Cool if it is, but the FM is the MOST import req, IMHO.

It's clear the intent is not a casual game.  My guess would be something in between IL2 GB and DCS.

$0.02

[AKIron]

"Sherman, set the Wayback machine to..."

I enjoyed this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN1mNNRqu0A

[icepac]

Wow…..the 1994 con was 30 years ago.

[hazmatt]

"Sherman, set the Wayback machine to..."

I enjoyed this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN1mNNRqu0A

OMG. What a flashback. I had an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 3000 back in the day.

[GasTeddy]

"Sherman, set the Wayback machine to..."

I enjoyed this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN1mNNRqu0A

Someone had put some aircraft gauges in old VW Beetle dashboard and made it F4...