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paulca:

--- Quote from: Howardlong on December 22, 2020, 10:07:44 pm ---I burst out laughing while taxiing off the runway after landing, when my cat started tapping me on the shoulder looking for some attention: the immersion was such that it felt like someone was sitting in the back tapping me on the shoulder.

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Yep.  When I'm driving in my car my ecig vape thing sits on the passenger seat.  The first game I played in VR was a racing sim.  Sitting in the cockpit I kept looking down towards the passenger seat for my vape.  Then realising and going "doh!"

On the Oculus original you can detach the bottom of the face gasket and cut off a bit of foam around your nose to give you a little gap to peer through for the keyboard.  It also allows airflow from a fan which becomes important if you go under the hood for an hour or more.  Especially if you wear glasses.

Before I had "TrackIR", but what that doesn't give you is access to your brains multi-target point tracking system.  In VR with the head motion being 1:1 in all axises your brain can suddenly properly track multiple targets and switch your view almost instantly and accurately.  I mean you can be landing on the carrier where most of your attention is focused, but instantly turn your head to look at the destroyer on your left or the cruiser on your right as your brain knows where they are and you can instantly move your attention there.

hans:
I also ran MSFS in VR with my 3080 card on a 3900X system.

Works pretty OK. Frame rate is not as high as I would like, but when it's not loading assets I think MSFS is doing a pretty good job of frame interpolation (of some kind). I run mostly medium settings around busy airports (like Schiphol), where the framerate is a bit jittery, but once I'm out of the area (which for a plane and  a small country like NL is very quick  :-DD ) I flick clouds to Ultra and just sit back & enjoy. Very pretty :D

I'm really surprised by the immersion. I did a flight around Alaska near sunrise with live cloudy weather, and was really amazed by what I saw from the cockpit. It feels almost unreal if you never experience these things from an airplane cockpit.

Definitely happy that I was able to get a 3000 series card for this. Also will be picking up Cyberpunk in the holidays to wind down. That game also runs very smoothly on RT Ultra :-+

Howardlong:

--- Quote from: paulca on December 24, 2020, 10:29:41 am ---
Before I had "TrackIR", but what that doesn't give you is access to your brains multi-target point tracking system.  In VR with the head motion being 1:1 in all axises your brain can suddenly properly track multiple targets and switch your view almost instantly and accurately.  I mean you can be landing on the carrier where most of your attention is focused, but instantly turn your head to look at the destroyer on your left or the cruiser on your right as your brain knows where they are and you can instantly move your attention there.

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I had a TrackIR some years ago on FSX. Like you suggest, it's not perfect, you move your head and have to back-correct by moving your eyes in the opposite direction.

My old FSX setup ended up having so many plug ins and hacks, I spent too much time just trying to get it to start up, so I lost interest, although I did used it to help with memory items before tests, but mostly gave up with all the add-ons.

My rudder pedals are too sensitive, I need to figure out how to resolve that, it's almost impossible to taxi along the centre lines. Speaking of which, it'd be a nice add on to have centre line cat's eyes bump feedback!

Howardlong:
I bit the bullet this last week and rebuilt my FS VR rig, from an i7 8700K + RTX 2080ti to an R7 5600X + RTX 3090. Stunning performance compared to the old rig.

All in an 11L mini ITX build Sliger SM560 with top, bottom and both sides ventilated.

It's a tight squeeze, and the GPU (MSI Trio 3090) runs nicely toasty. 5600X with 65W TDP running PBO with a Cryorig C7 G runs fine for normal loads, although AIDA 64 gives it a run for the money.

I had to update the mobo BIOS (Gigabyte X570 I Auros) using G Flash plus without the CPU installed, and dropped the PCIE down to Gen 3.0: I'd imagine the ~12" riser cable does nothing to help the signal integrity for Gen 4.0.

I also had to hack the case internals slightly to make the GPU fit inside: there's a GPU cutout in the bulkhead at the front of the case that needed an extra centimetre or so of height. Length wise, there's only 2mm of case space left.







tszaboo:

--- Quote from: Howardlong on February 05, 2021, 07:14:22 pm ---I bit the bullet this last week and rebuilt my FS VR rig, from an i7 8700K + RTX 2080ti to an R7 5600X + RTX 3090. Stunning performance compared to the old rig.

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They actually sell 3090 in UK? It's just vaporware here.
Cheapest RTX 3090 here is 2200 EUR (that's 2650 USD) for a card with the MSRP of 1500 USD. No thanks.

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