This Oculus thing I have a question on how this works. You have this television on your head. Now what if you have a flight yoke, MCP, throttles and other switches, buttons and handles you need to access. Does it show your arm and fingers or are you poking around blindly in the dark for them?

 

 

Now what if you have a flight yoke, MCP, throttles and other switches, buttons and handles you need to access.

 

muscle memory?  Just hold very still, and only turn your head, and they should be where you left them.

This Oculus thing I have a question on how this works. You have this television on your head. Now what if you have a flight yoke, MCP, throttles and other switches, buttons and handles you need to access. Does it show your arm and fingers or are you poking around blindly in the dark for them?

 

I fully agree Rendi, the Oculus may be fine if you are playing on one of those console toy thingies where you just have one controller and know where all the buttons are by feel, but flight simming is a whole different ball game. How the hell would I be able to see my second monitor with the flight planning software running?

This is pretty cool that they are working on native support for the Oculus Rift. I can't wait to get one for Christmas  

Yeah i've got a DK1 but the resolution made it impossible for me to see anything at all at a distance. DK2 on order now though, that'll be a much much better experience! I'm super excited to fly with it.

Very cool to have official support for the rift

This Oculus thing I have a question on how this works. You have this television on your head. Now what if you have a flight yoke, MCP, throttles and other switches, buttons and handles you need to access. Does it show your arm and fingers or are you poking around blindly in the dark for them?

Yes, you cannot see anything other than the game while using the Oculus Rift. If you have a yoke or throttle, not much of a problem since they are close and you can see your movement emulated in the virtual cockpit. Now about switches and buttons...

When wearing OR will one be able to see the mouse cursor so VC switches etc can be manipulated?

When wearing OR will one be able to see the mouse cursor so VC switches etc can be manipulated?

 

Just checked a video with the Oculus Rift and yes, you can still see the cursor. But you cannot see the mouse. 

For most of my simming my hotas is all I need and I don't need to look at it and in fact I never do.   In the past for complex things I have used voice control and perhaps I will use it a little more with the rift.

 

      For me, it comes down to one simple thing.    Do I prefer the tactile switches while looking at a small screen in front of me, e.g. monitor or tv, or do I prefer to forgo the tactile switches and maybe use the VC more and have some amazing immersion like we have never had before in the flight sim genre.

 

     If the rift works as I expect then I will happily forget about having real switches while flying a sim with no suspension of disbelief and stick to the rift while my brain is tricked in to thinking I am actually there.

 

    It will be each to his own, some will not want to give up their switches and some will never look back.

For most of my simming my hotas is all I need and I don't need to look at it and in fact I never do.   In the past for complex things I have used voice control and perhaps I will use it a little more with the rift.

 

      For me, it comes down to one simple thing.    Do I prefer the tactile switches while looking at a small screen in front of me, e.g. monitor or tv, or do I prefer to forgo the tactile switches and maybe use the VC more and have some amazing immersion like we have never had before in the flight sim genre.

 

     If the rift works as I expect then I will happily forget about having real switches while flying a sim with no suspension of disbelief and stick to the rift while my brain is tricked in to thinking I am actually there.

 

    It will be each to his own, some will not want to give up their switches and some will never look back.

 

If you're willing to give up tactile switches for immersion, then I think you'll like the Rift. Many people say it is extremely immersive.

 

This channel has some Oculus Rift videos in X-Plane and War Thunder: https://www.youtube.com/user/mdbuehler/videos?flow=grid&view=0

I know I will love the rift,  not sure which incarnation will perfect it but I have a lot of screens I am looking to get rid of and a few simp its I am looking to scale right back on and save some space and $$.    Also I am doing some software for the rift but I am not biased!

 

    A real shame that it's still another four month wait for the DK2 to ship, oh well..

I am very interested in the rift. On one hand it represents a potential savings on display costs since you would not have to invest in large displays or extra memory gpu's.

 

Granted the ability to not see your controls seems like a negative but the fact that you would be in a virtual cockpit and can still retain basic access to hotas, together could produce a superior experience!

 

Of course this brings us that much closer to being a cyborg but who's counting?

For most of my simming my hotas is all I need and I don't need to look at it and in fact I never do.

 

I expect sometime in the near future you will be able to use your hands to click virtual switches on and off, etc. Sort of like Microsoft's Kinect.

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I expect sometime in the near future you will be able to use your hands to click virtual switches on and off, etc. Sort of like Microsoft's Kinect.

 

Now that would be cool - probably the best solution...

Now that would be cool - probably the best solution...

 

But if something like that is to be made, it will be a long time till it's released. I doubt Microsoft would sell the Kinect separately for the PC.