March 28, 20242 yr Anyone using the Cows bird in VR? Are all the switches flipping using vr controllers? How's the frames performance compared to default craft? Dave Kalin Excel Classes Computer Lessons
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March 28, 20242 yr Author Thanks, seen him before but he doesn't use vr controllers, he uses a mouse only. Dave Kalin Excel Classes Computer Lessons
March 28, 20242 yr 14 minutes ago, hangar said: Thanks, seen him before but he doesn't use vr controllers, he uses a mouse only. I think it's pretty rare to use the VR controllers outside of Aerofly or X-Plane... Msfs seems to be pretty hit-or-miss on implementation. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
March 28, 20242 yr Author 1 hour ago, HiFlyer said: I think it's pretty rare to use the VR controllers outside of Aerofly or X-Plane... Msfs seems to be pretty hit-or-miss on implementation. Luckily most of my aircraft have switches that work with the controllers, although knobs can be a chore to deal with if you're in a rush. I'm using a physical yoke/throttles/pedals to control the aircraft in VR, but for getting around to all the switches and knobs you can't beat the vr controllers for deepening the physical immersion of "being there". It forces you to make those subtle arm, hand and body movements to reach and manipulate things in the cockpit. While using the mouse instead kills the immersion for me as it constantly reinforces the reality of desktop computer into your subconscious 🙂 Dave Kalin Excel Classes Computer Lessons
March 28, 20242 yr How do you grab your controller ? I mean, while you're in flight, with the headset on your eyes and the hands on the controls ? I could put my controller next to the mouse of course, but it wouldn't be very practical to catch 😕 I do understand your remarks regarding the immersion though, so I'm getting kind of curious. I've always used the mouse only so far... Edited March 28, 20242 yr by Daube
March 28, 20242 yr Author 1 hour ago, Daube said: How do you grab your controller ? I mean, while you're in flight, with the headset on your eyes and the hands on the controls ? I could put my controller next to the mouse of course, but it wouldn't be very practical to catch 😕 I do understand your remarks regarding the immersion though, so I'm getting kind of curious. I've always used the mouse only so far... My setup provides me a resting spot for each controller...one to my left and one to my right and I can easily just feel for them as I reach out, although sometimes I use my mixed reality settings so I can see the physical stuff that I need to see more easily (Quest 3). I fly GA only which means once you takeoff there's not a whole lot of things you'll need them for. I mostly use controllers for setting up the plane at the start for things such as battery, lights, fuel valves, engine start, gen, alt, altimeter setting, radios, headhpones, etc. Gear and flaps I have bound to my throttle quad buttons since they can often be flaky to use with vr controllers in msfs. Once in the air I mostly just need them for radio freq changes and setting up approaches in the 750 gps and that touch screen works very easily with the vr controllers. Edited March 28, 20242 yr by hangar Dave Kalin Excel Classes Computer Lessons
March 28, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, Daube said: How do you grab your controller ? I mean, while you're in flight, with the headset on your eyes and the hands on the controls ? One might try something like this.... We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
March 28, 20242 yr Author 44 minutes ago, HiFlyer said: One might try something like this.... Yea, wish it worked without requiring SteamVR though. SteamVR kills my msfs...Currently I must use VDXR and the OpenXR Toolkit to run msfs well enough in VR with my older machine here. Works pretty nice, much better than in years passed...so I'm not willing to go back to Steam's XR. Edited March 28, 20242 yr by hangar Dave Kalin Excel Classes Computer Lessons
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