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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: zack1234 on November 26, 2018, 02:54:21 PM
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There seems to be a lot of updates for VR.
How many people have it and is it worth buying.
Been looking around and headsets are not cheap.
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If you don't mind the lower resolution compared to current monitors, it's worth it. Nobody likes the lower resolution but being "inside" the game generally makes up for it. Higher resolution will mean lower performance until PC's get a lot faster.
Smooth tracking is the most important VR feature and I believe the Rift is still the best choice for flight sims.
If you use it for a few years the cost/benefit is pretty good.
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There seems to be a lot of updates for VR.
How many people have it and is it worth buying.
Been looking around and headsets are not cheap.
Hitech posted a graph of "players using VR" for 7-10 days. He cut off the player number scale so we dont "know" how many are using it, but due to the way the graph line was jumping around day to day, and the fact that Hitech cut the the player axis off it cant be many. Id guess that its under 20% and I think that is being generous.
VR is the next biggest thing. Its ok now, but in the next year or two it will most likely explode. The resolution and the price are the hurdles right now. Drop your resolution down to 800X600 and you'll get an idea of what it looks like. On the other hand the immersion even at that crappy resolution is said to be unbelievable.
Price wise, even now you can find deals on Facebook market place and Ebay for lightly used equipment. With the Christmas sales going on I can find new units for $350, $50 cheaper than last week. Used ones you can find for under $200.
What bothers me is this is the only game I play. Id hate to blow $400 on VR and have the game go in a dirrection I dont care for, or just close up and Im stuck with a $400 paper weight.
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My first VR headsets were in the $2k range.
just to keep it in perspective.
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I have an Oculus Rift and absolutely love the feeling of immersion. AH3 is the only game I play, and I really only fly fighters, and occasionally man a gun or fly a buff. Downsides are loss of resolution, and some aspects of SA (mostly due to smaller field of view), and it's a pain to use the keyboard. But the feeling of actually being in the plane is amazing IMHO...no going back for me. And I think some aspects of SA improve, eg it seems easier to see what other planes are doing, and I think my gunnery is better too. Short answer for me, I love it. :airplane:
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What bothers me is this is the only game I play. Id hate to blow $400 on VR and have the game go in a dirrection I dont care for, or just close up and Im stuck with a $400 paper weight.
Amen
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If you usually use vr, do you have to spend lots of time reconfiguring things in ah to switch back to no vr or is it a simple as unplugging the goggles?
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The game stores VR settings in their own config files. You should be able to play either way and not have to mess with settings.
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If you usually use vr, do you have to spend lots of time reconfiguring things in ah to switch back to no vr or is it a simple as unplugging the goggles?
....as Skuzzy says. It's pretty simple. For example, after a sortie, I often send/return salutes when I'm in the tower, because I can take my headset off and AH3 goes to full screen on my monitor, and it's easy to type messages.
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So a Warthog joystick or VR? :old:
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So a Warthog joystick or VR? :old:
Would you rather see a fuzzy planet or control your plane?
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So a Warthog joystick or VR? :old:
You would love it. As much as you fly I think you would enjoy it.
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So a Warthog joystick or VR? :old:
I'd say good joystick, throttle, etc comes first, but If you feel your current control setup is working well for you, I'd recommend VR. I was holding off for better resolution etc on the VR stuff, until a Rift showed up at my house courtesy of my son. I was quickly awed by the immersive feel of the VR. Now I'd have a hard time going back to monitor and TrackIR, and would feel like it was a step backward. Similar to going to TrackIR, VR did take a bit of getting used too.
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Everything is kinda fuzzy in vr. Makes wirbles much more of a nuisance and long range shots more difficult. Judging angles and setting up deflection shots feels more natural though.
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Everything is kinda fuzzy in vr. Makes wirbles much more of a nuisance and long range shots more difficult. Judging angles and setting up deflection shots feels more natural though.
I find I have better abilities at spotting GVs in VR vs legacy-pilots.
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Some of it is going to depend on which headset you are using.
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Some of it is going to depend on which headset you are using.
Which is the best today? :)
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I find I have better abilities at spotting GVs in VR vs legacy-pilots.
Are your graphics turned all the way up in VR. I think i was above average at finding them at 1440p everything cranked up but now feel helpless even with the odyssey hmd resolution which is supposedly better than oculus.
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Which is the best today? :)
Depends on your measure of what is best.
Oculus Rift has the smoothest game play experience by far. That is due to the superior software drivers they have.
Unfortunately, I can no longer recommend the Rift due to Facebook's handling of that business unit. There is some speculation Facebook may just dump the Rift.
They appear to have cancelled the updated replacement for the Rift.
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Skuzzy is there a way to stop aces high from closing if the vr headset goes to sleep? Sometimes i take it off wheb cruising around or gving and then it shuts down with no warning
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I bought an oculus rift dk2 for £47. It was still pretty much brand new with spare lenses/lens cloth/cables still in sealed bags. It runs astonishingly well on AH2. Took a week or so to get over the motion sickness but it's re-envigorated the game for me completely.
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Are your graphics turned all the way up in VR. I think i was above average at finding them at 1440p everything cranked up but now feel helpless even with the odyssey hmd resolution which is supposedly better than oculus.
Yup, but I have shadows and reflections turned off, don't like them.
Ask the nit GVers, I am always hanging out over GV fights in a 9T spotting and shoving the odd 37mm down the turret tops of t-34s :)
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Yrah i have those turned off too.
Just find that the pixels in vr are larger than the tanks when dive bombing from 5k plus
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I bought a LP120 record player instead to record my records to pc.
Seems like VR is going the way of force feedback joysticks
My CH kit still works fine
Pipz bought a warthog and said it was nice but overkill
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VR + FFB + Motion Simulation = :D :aok