3 minutes ago, Greggy_D said:

I just ordered the Rift bundle before the sale ends on Monday.  It will be here on Monday.  Can't wait to see what you guys are experiencing.

Congrats!

The first time you enter your favorite aircraft in VR is a moment you'll remember ☺️

Here's some promising news regarding FlyInside for P3Dv4

http://forum.flyinside-fsx.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5889&p=25093#p25093

On 9/2/2017 at 4:21 PM, Greggy_D said:

I just ordered the Rift bundle before the sale ends on Monday.  It will be here on Monday.  Can't wait to see what you guys are experiencing.

Good stuff! Welcome to the VR world. I will be interested to hear your feedback. I downloaded Elite Dangerous last night and was blown away. Don't forget to install the free third party Oculus Tray Tools App and set pixel density to at least 1.5. This makes a big difference in readability of text and instruments. 

45 minutes ago, steve310002 said:

I downloaded Elite Dangerous last night and was blown away.

Consider purchasing the voicepacks for ED. Many people are unaware that the Oculus already has a hidden microphone that is very very good quality and can pick up your words very clearly. https://www.hcsvoicepacks.com/

 

4 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

Many people are unaware that the Oculus already has a hidden microphone that is very very good quality and can pick up your words very clearly.

I'm not sure I agree with you on this one.

I use the built-in mic all the time when flying online on Vatsim and on numerous occasions I've been told I'm rather "far away" and low volume and this is when having the mic volume set to 100% so can't do much about it. I never had these issues when using my wireless Logitech headset for instance before I got the rift.

Maybe it's just my headset/mic and I got a bad sample.

1 hour ago, steve310002 said:

Don't forget to install the free third party Oculus Tray Tools App and set pixel density to at least 1.5. This makes a big difference in readability of text and instruments.

In what titles have you seen this difference?

I've tried both the tray tool as well as the debug tool that comes with the Oculus software but I've never noticed any real difference adjusting this value. This has been in FlyInside and P3Dv3 so maybe that's the reason - you will only benefit from this in other titles?

1 hour ago, HiFlyer said:

Consider purchasing the voicepacks for ED. Many people are unaware that the Oculus already has a hidden microphone that is very very good quality and can pick up your words very clearly. https://www.hcsvoicepacks.com/

I had forgotten about this only to discover someone was listening to everything I was saying to my girlfriend when we were trying out Dead and Buried which is an online game that came with the Rift. Out of nowhere some guy I was playing against from Australia joined our conversation which was slightly awkward...lol. Be careful with that as it was not clear that this option was turned on by default in the game.

 

22 minutes ago, WebMaximus said:

In what titles have you seen this difference?

I've tried both the tray tool as well as the debug tool that comes with the Oculus software but I've never noticed any real difference adjusting this value. This has been in FlyInside and P3Dv3 so maybe that's the reason - you will only benefit from this in other titles?

For me it makes text clearer everywhere, even in the Oculus Home. I admit it could be placebo but I feel it has removed jaggies in general and text appears more easily readable. This makes sense as it basically a form of supersampling. You must ensure it is running before you turn on Oculus Home. I have it running at start up and minimized so I don't have to mess around with it.

29 minutes ago, WebMaximus said:

I'm not sure I agree with you on this one.

I use the built-in mic all the time when flying online on Vatsim and on numerous occasions I've been told I'm rather "far away" and low volume and this is when having the mic volume set to 100% so can't do much about it. I never had these issues when using my wireless Logitech headset for instance before I got the rift.

Maybe it's just my headset/mic and I got a bad sample.

Using voice recognition software, I had horrible luck with various headphones, and was ready to give up on the whole idea until I tried the Rift mic. Now I can use voice commands with probably 95% understanding by the computer, whereas before, it was just a comedy of errors.

This can be adversely affected if you have weird reverb or other effects running on your soundcard, though.

32 minutes ago, WebMaximus said:

In what titles have you seen this difference?

A lot of modern VR titles allow you to adjust this directly in game settings, rather than forcing people to fiddle with tray tools, and it does/can have a VERY noticeable effect on apparent image clarity. Elite dangerous, DCS, Aerofly and other more recent titles have controls for this in settings.

5 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

Using voice recognition software, I had horrible luck with various headphones, and was ready to give up on the whole idea until I tried the Rift mic. Now I can use voice commands with probably 95% understanding by the computer, whereas before, it was just a comedy of errors.

This can be adversely affected if you have weird reverb or other effects running on your soundcard, though.

Ok, in my case the Logitech headset is much better both for voice recognition (FS2Crew) as well as real communication with Vatsim ATC.

Don't get me wrong. The Oculus mic gets the job done as well. Only not as good as the Logitech one.

4 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

A lot of modern VR titles allow you to adjust this directly in game settings, rather than forcing people to fiddle with tray tools, and it does/can have a VERY noticeable effect on apparent image clarity. Elite dangerous, DCS, Aerofly and other more recent titles have controls for this in settings.

I think I read somewhere increasing the resolution in FlyInside in fact is the same thing as adjusting the SS value using the tray or debug tool.

That would explain why I haven't noticed any improvement since I'm already using the second highest resolution in FlyInside.

13 minutes ago, WebMaximus said:

I think I read somewhere increasing the resolution in FlyInside in fact is the same thing as adjusting the SS value using the tray or debug tool.

That would explain why I haven't noticed any improvement since I'm already using the second highest resolution in FlyInside.

Yup

On 9/1/2017 at 8:35 AM, Iceman2 said:

Hey Guys,

I have today for the first time visited this VR forum as I too took the plunge into VR this week by buying the Pimax headset. It arrived this morning just before I headed off to work, so at present its unboxed.

I have a couple of questions before I hook it up tonight and probably mess it up.

1. Im using a large 4K TV and assume that having this plugged into the GPU (TitanX pascal) along with the VR will be very taxing and possibly impair performance of the Headset. Is it best to us a small monitor with less resolution or is it not an issue because P3D is only really running though the VR headset.

2. Am I wasting my time hooking it up to P3DV4 without flyinside yet being available for V4. I only have V4 installed so won't be able to test the Pimax with flyinside until the update version is released later this month.

Should I wait until this release and avoid disappointment with performance or are you folks finding P3Dv4 in its current VR readiness form, usable.

Lastly is anyone using the 4K Pimax that can steer me in the right direction regarding software installation.

Im guessing I start with piplay, and then what?

thx in advance 

IM

 

Hi Iceman.

I've been looking to get into VR. Running a 6700k, 1080 with P3DV4. I've been discourged due to all the talk about poor resolution coming from my 55" 4K TV. I accept it's ok for some people but I've been wanting to wait for better resolution VR before taking the plunge.

 

How have you found the PiMax 4K?I've also read about a new version coming, sounds like early next year:

 

https://www.roadtovr.com/pimax-8k-vr-headset-coming-kickstarter-later-month/

 

Any feedback? Everybody else seems to run Rift or Vive

 

1 hour ago, KL Oo said:

Hi Iceman.

I've been looking to get into VR. Running a 6700k, 1080 with P3DV4. I've been discourged due to all the talk about poor resolution coming from my 55" 4K TV. I accept it's ok for some people but I've been wanting to wait for better resolution VR before taking the plunge.

 

How have you found the PiMax 4K?I've also read about a new version coming, sounds like early next year:

 

https://www.roadtovr.com/pimax-8k-vr-headset-coming-kickstarter-later-month/

 

Any feedback? Everybody else seems to run Rift or Vive

 

Hi KL,

I'm loving the 4K Pimax easy to setup and actually works well with P3Dv4 and will even be better once flyinside is released. (I hope it works with flyinside) 

The Pimax lacks full head movement like the rift and vive but I'm told Track IR will fix that, however as of now I haven't figured out how to make the two to work together.

I have not compared the others but the graphics quality is OK, no screen door effect, I can easily read the instruments and have worn the headset for hours at a time.

The 8K will be awesome based on my current experience with the 4K.

👍 Thumbs up Pimax.

IM