Oculus vr for trainsim ? ? ?

johnrossetti · Post by **johnrossetti** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:10 am

This looks interesting
https://www.oculusvr.com/order/
anyone want to take up the challenge !
JohnR

Post by **PeterPeddlesden** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 5:52 am

Perhaps you should be speaking to DaveDewhurst (Waggonz), he appears to have a great interest in the Oculus VR - Oculus Rift.

SaMa1 · Post by **SaMa1** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 7:14 am

I believe DTG will be implementing it in future.
https://twitter.com/railsimulator/statu ... 93/photo/1

I am not sure about current support level.

smarty2 · Post by **smarty2** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 7:15 am

Wonder how quickly ones neck would start hurting with that on yer bonce?

Trev123 · Post by **Trev123** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 7:17 am

Mine hurts now without it.

Juanillo99 · Post by **Juanillo99** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 7:20 am

SaMa1 wrote:I believe DTG will be implementing it in future.
https://twitter.com/railsimulator/statu ... 93/photo/1

Perhaps, but I am very skeptical → https://www.facebook.com/railsimulator/ ... comments=1

DaveDewhurst · Post by **DaveDewhurst** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 9:09 am

It works, but you need either TriDef3d or VorpX to enable it,
Unfortunately you need to run the sim in non TSX mode or turn shadows off as the TSX wrapper causes some odd artifacts with shadows.
Some tweaking of the FOV is also needed to make the viewable area in the Rift look correct.

: The way the screen has been morphed into a binocular shape I think this is VorpX rather than TriDef

Head Tracking doesn't work out of the box, but you may be able to spoof it using a combination of FreeTrack and the TS2014 track IR patch available from a thread in this forum

TriDef and VorpX are both payware but one of them has a free trial (I cant remember which)

Dave

So in short, yes it works, with a lot of messing, possibly too much for the actual benefit,
If it was supported natively then it would be a lot better, Possibly when they move over to UDK in TS2016 (which has better support for it)

david1 · Post by **david1** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 9:16 am

sorry to sound daft, but what is it and what does it do?

DaveDewhurst · Post by **DaveDewhurst** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 9:44 am

david1 wrote:sorry to sound daft, but what is it and what does it do?

Its a virtual reality headset.
Currently still in development, you can purchase it as a developer kit (although the resolution is not great).
A fair few games in development have all planned support for the hardware, but some older games can be modded into utilising it, with varying compatibility.

Dave

johnrossetti · Post by **johnrossetti** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:03 pm

Thanks for the explanation Dave, I nearly purchased one, didn't realise about the TSX settings or the low resolution.
Cheers
JohnR

rabid · Post by **rabid** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:10 pm

Doesn't make sense they would support the Rift given they've been snubbing TrackIR for years.

DaveDewhurst · Post by **DaveDewhurst** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:10 pm

johnrossetti wrote:Thanks for the explanation Dave, I nearly purchased one, didn't realise about the TSX settings or the low resolution.
Cheers
JohnR

The Current model (Developer Kit 1) which is the one everybody currently has runs at 1280x800.
The one linked to in the first post is Developer Kit 2 which will ship in July (I think) but runs at 1080p

Currently considering it, but only if I can sell this one I've currently got

Dave

atlasduff47 · Post by **atlasduff47** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 7:13 pm

Red Dwarf Ha ha.

davejc64 · Post by **davejc64** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 7:50 am

One expensive toy, not for me that's for sure.

DaveDewhurst · Post by **DaveDewhurst** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 4:43 pm

rabid wrote:Doesn't make sense they would support the Rift given they've been snubbing TrackIR for years.

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