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Gear vr suggestion re cockpit

Dec 01, 2016 monkeyboystu link
Hi there first off great great game! Ever since I played elite as kid on my acorn electron (!) I always dreamt of playing a game like that in vr where you feel you are really there - and now I can, on my phone! Crazy...

Really don't understand why this isn't being pushed by the occulus store as a flagship title...

Anyway I have a suggestion which I appreciate is no small ask but I hope it is a helpful one.

Would you consider adding a more 'robust' cockpit view? By that I mean having some cockpit struts the height of the screen that are fixed in place EDIT a windscreen- damn you brain . I do find movement can be a bit stomach churning which in a twitch pvp orientated game puts you at a bit of a disadvantage

Having read up on motion sickness in vr generally, many studies have suggested that having fixed points of reference on the screen can really mitigate the issue. For example one study of a first person walking around type experience found that adding a virtual nose greatly reduced participants tendency to feel unwell.

Sp I guess I'm asking for a cockpit version of a virtual nose :)

The HUD is currently quite 'floaty' with separate elements not feeling connected, which I feel might by why the brain isn't tricked into thinking it is sat in a fixed object, hence the motion sickness. Some (even very basic) addictions to the cockpit could make it feel more cohesive

Just a thought- I won't claim to be an expert on vr (!) But having read a few different research studies on the subject the fixed points of reference on screen does seem to be a recurring theme

Keep up the great work!

Cheers Stu
Dec 02, 2016 thecamelman79 link
+1

A actual cockpit would be fantastic....... hell it wouldn't have to be much. matter of fact most of it should be cut up into glass panels so you could still see though. think millennium falcon, glass strut design. Though simply having "somthing" would drasticly help with imersion.