Desert Drydock

Thank you MAXsenna, it looks awesome! I'm still in the process of setting up as time allows and haven't even downloaded it yet. I'm currently trying to figure out why I'm getting flashing in my headset with some missions. If I can't find an answer soon I will start a new post on it because I can't be the only one experiencing this...

Thanks sleighzy that's exactly what I was looking for. I just watched AnyTimeBaby's videos on installation, setup and use. Wow! Much better then I could have imagined...

That's basically what I plan on doing but after doing CAD for over 25 years I think in CAD. Making the outline trace won't take me long. I've made a lot of F-18 cockpits over the years going back to my first full creation of an F/A-18C for FS2K. Having a properly scaled map will make it much easier to add further switch panels. The whole issue with doing it is figuring out how to correct the pink border because it would suck to have a pink line around all the physical panels. I'm certain the OpenKneeboard creator is seeing where their software is headed and looking to correct it. If not, eventually someone will create the software that will allow a more seamless transition. On another note, I finally got into DCS with my Q3S... I've been too busy the past few daze and couldn't mess with it but brought everything together yesterday afternoon. So I have an off topic question for you @Phantom711 I've looked around for a while but can't find out how to setup voice coms with ATC and the LSO. Will you point me in the right direction? Googleing DCS voice commands just sends me to endless in game voice chat links and Voice Attack links.

I'll update once I get it up and working.

The Warthog Project videos were what lit my fuse a couple weeks ago. In a couple of his videos he says "What a time to be alive!", I couldn't agree more although my list of reasons go way beyond VR, but VR is certainly one of em. Like I said previously I'm a CAD artist so I plan on taking a series of screen shots of the DCS F/A-18C cockpit. Then using the best one as a CAD background to create my overlay picture for an outline trace. Once created it can be scaled in either direction to make a perfect fit to the DCS cockpit and tightly match the physical panel. This way I can keep the lower panels with the analog gauges and RWR on the right and the engine monitor, fuel quantity indicator and so on, on the left. I also already have most of the switches/levers for the forward side panels, hook, LG, wing fold, ect. I'll just carve them out of the image in the shape of the placard panels. I'm also pretty sure I can omit the pink boundary line by switching the overlay picture to a two color map then reintroduce it to a color layer and hoping its not a quirk of Open Kneeboard.. What a time to be alive!..

Yepper, I'm a FNG to the VR language... So you're telling me that I can create the Open Kneeboard passthrough with what I currently have here? I'm likely 4-6 months out on the new PC build because I have a lot of dollar$ tied up in another project which is taking up my toy money for a while. I purchased the Q3S just to try it out and get back to my beloved carrier ops which will revert back to training. Catching a three wire isn't like riding a bike, so I'm sure I'm really rusty... The Warthog Project videos, like sleighzy's above post are what alerted me to the "mixed reality" features now available. The first one I watched a couple weeks ago caused me to wet myself and vapor lock. Then hating myself for committing to so much money with my current project. So I decided that I would try the Q3S with its lower resolution that my nine year old PC build may handle it just well enough if I stay at sea and keep a clean deck on the CVN. In all reality this old PC will likely surprise me, it smokes on F1 24. I fully planned on getting the Q3 after the new PC build anyway. So if the Q3S will run the Open Kneeboard passthrough, I'll just keep it and resume training in the interim. A P.S. note, I'm sure you can see how a FNG might get cross threaded on the terminology when first being introduced by a video that calls it "mixed reality" but I really appreciate the clarification!

That's exactly what I'm up to, I envisioned it 25+ years ago when flying Jane's EA USAF n IDF. I just realized a couple weeks ago it arrived while I wasn't paying attention. I just wanted to jump into it with my 9 year old PC build, but I need to slow down n get it all thought through and catch up a bit more methodically. I figure I'm looking at 4K plus to set it up. I'm a CAD artist with 3D printers but I'll start with the Win Wing TOP GUN MIP n toss my old Thrustmaster MFD's to the dust bin. I have an original Oculus Rift that was set up for MSFS X with the VRS F/A-18E on my old Win 7 machine. A Steam update destroyed it in 2018 or 19 and life was too busy to take the time n fix it. Needless to say I miss my SHB's and Okay3's...

sleighzy I learned that Windows 10 won't work to support mixed reality in the Quest 3S this afternoon and was confirmed by meta support. The main reason I'm coming back to DCS and VR is because mixed reality has finally caught up to my past hopes of having a basic simpit meshed with VR. I bought a Quest 2 when it first came out, it was awesome for flying but irritatingly awkward for trying to find the correct switch or button by feel, like MFD operation.

Thanks for the reply sleighzy. As I was further investigating my issue after I posted here earlier, I learned that Windows 10 doesn't support mixed reality. So I'm just going to box the Quest 3S up and send it back. Its clearly time to build a new PC designed around supporting the Meta Quest 3 512GB in DCS. It would have been nice to learn about this before I ordered the Quest 3S but as usual, I like doing the hard and more expensive way.

I'm starting all over with VR after about 3 years of not doing any VR. Yesterday I received my new Quest 3S and after setting it up it won't recognize DCS. DCS is not showing up in the Quest Link App library. I searched and read forums until about 2am then got up this morning and went back at it. I can't find the right answer, so I decided its best to go to the pros here. What didn't I do or what am I missing?

Thanks for the reply KoN. I grabbed a factory refurbished EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC ULTRA GAMING 8GB GDDR6 hopefully this will be an even match for the processor. This is all pretty much an experiment. A while back, Steam wiped out my FSX setup with an update and I had no way of getting back to my old gen 1 Oculus/Fly in Side FSX/VRS F-18E w TacPack set up. So this is just easing back in after not flight simming for a while. If I like it, I'll build a dedicated system.

With a daze research, I'm tending towards the NVIDIA RTX 2070. It sounds like it will match my older 6700K processor and should smoothly run the Oculus at 150% render resolution and 72 Hz refresh rate.

I have an PC that's a few years old that I would like to set up to run DCS with the Oculus Quest. Originally the PC was for running CAD so it has a NVIDIA Quadro K5000 GPU and I would like to replace it with a perfect match for the Oculus Quest In DCS. I'm going to give it a fresh 1TB SSD and install Windows 10. The processor is a Core i7 6700K 4.00 GHz that I'm hoping will do the trick. With that, I'm looking for references and suggestions from others who are using the Oculus and how their GPU is working for them. I'm hoping to get fully immersed in DCS and I think that VR is the ticket. Thanks for reading!