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Yes, badly damaged apparently but thankfully no injuries, it would be interesting to see the damage. RIP to the learjet crew.

Yes, don't buy DK1 expecting to be able to use it for actually gaming, DK2's haven't shipped yet so nobody knows how much of an improvement they are but they are still a developer kit too, but if you simply want to see what the fuss is about then you are in for a treat even with a DK1, you will try it out and the light will come on and you will realise it's the future.

They did and the name is 1C game studios.

The field of view is about right for somebody wearing ski goggles.

But in the first picture considering his face is almost in his knees the image shown in the screen next to him doesn't look like it has got too much motion.

EE Lightning, all the other aircraft in the list are bound to end up being made at some point but the Lightning will get no love at all unless we fight for it.

a T-6 makes perfect sense and it even had a combat role.

Oh God......A DCS Lancaster would make me drool

it doesn't have a link from within your user profile, the only way to get into it is from that hyperlink, I'm guessing it will remain so until it is out of beta.

personally I don't find any need for an avatar at all, no such disconnects for me, all of that would matter more come the day we have holodecks, but for now VR is in the realms of creating a new dimension to existing technology, we have all been coping just fine with using sims on monitors without avatars and enjoying ourselves, I find it odd that we now have a capability to increase the sense of presence and people are already finding faults as if we are taking backward steps, Ok some people feel disembodied.....that's testament to the power of the immersion and presence that VR is offering us, for me it's an easy trick to get over the invisible body.

it's probably worse having an avatar that doesn't animate in real time with your own movements than not having one at all.

it's weird that there is such an apparent disconnect simply because of a missing avatar, in real life my body just lurks in the shadows of my peripheral vision and I barely pay any attention to it. Be interesting to research the proportion of people who feel the disconnect, I do get the impression most can cope without an avatar.

it's what I meant, I'm not a tar and feathers guy.

Well now that Luthier is out of the picture there is simply no good reason to even ever mention him here again, ED have picked up the batton and are graciously honouring the kickstarter pledges and that is that, we never need to hear of broken promises again.

He had the community manager tag a while before the announcement.

I thought Groves was the community manager

I hope Luthier is OK......

No but we did get the community manager.......didn't we?

At this point I'd agree and I don't even want the money back, just want this crap to be over.

And best part is patience costs us nothing.

Weird, at the Oculus forums the general opinion is that DK2 has less screen door from the very few that are getting to use it so far and all the opinion on pentile being bad is pure speculation.

By that logic all Alpha/beta software should be the final product but delivered in a brown cardboard box or somehow made to look ugly deliberately.

Who is to say the current dev kits aren't worse looking than the intended consumer release? the dev kits are being built with the best components available to them at the time, the components for the consumer release are still being developed, the dev kits are intended to be put in the hands of developers simply so they can implement the functionality to their titles, no they should not be on equal spec to the consumer release or they would be the consumer release.

Either way the DK versions are not intended to be enjoyed as final consumer products, anyone buying DK's thinking it represents the full and final experience is kidding themselves.

Same for me.