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Just received shipping confirmation. Woohoo! I sure hope this thing doesn’t suck...

I’ll let you know when it arrives. DCS is going to be my first try.

There are some Windows VR headsets available. The best one should be the Samsung Odyssey that begins shipping next Monday. On paper it it surpasses the Rift and Vive on all fronts. I’ll let you know when mine arrives. The Pimax 8K and 5K won’t be out until next year some time. I am skeptical about the Pimax, having owned the 4K (which sucked on all fronts).

Make sure Your LUA files are not write protected.

What about working with the Windows VR partners? They are better established and have more mature, better backed products. My experience with the Pimax was poor at best. The screens are up scaled from a lower resolution, the lenses and LCDs are of poor quality, the software is amateurish and quite buggy. I don’t understand your decision to pick them as a partner.

So the cursor moves with head movement. I wondered about that. So it's like trying to use the mouse to click on something with head-tracking turned on. Kind of a PITA. I have the Odyssey pre-ordered and use the TM:WH controllers. Trying to figure out how I'm going to push the buttons that are not on the HOTAS in the cockpit. I was hoping to use freetrack mouse emulation in some way. I need to look into this.

You're right. Splashscreen turned DCS into a jittery mess. just moving the mouse caused screen flashing and the DCS menu to bleed through while in a mission. 3 cores ran at 50 -80 percent load just with the program running with nothing on the screen. Had to try it though.

What if you have 16 processor cores?

So is FOV measured on the diagonal or horizontal? The Samsung graphic indicates it is measured horizontally. That would change the math.

So to summarize . Yes the Odyssey has 32% greater pixel density (or PPD) than the Rift/Vive. That’s good to know because I wasn’t a fan of that level of SDE. Man, time hasn’t moved this slow since I was a kid waiting for Christmas...

I was curious what the difference between the Odyssey screen and the Rift/Vive was so I did some math. So the Samsung Odyssey has a screen resolution of 1440x1600 per eye with a FOV of 110 degrees diagonal. Therefore: 110 degrees diagonal gives a pixel value of 2153. So the vFOV is 81.75 degrees (110/2153=81.75/1600) and the vPD is 19.57. The hFOV is 73.57 degrees (110/2153=73.57/1440) and the hPD is also 19.57. This means that the Odyssey has right at 383 (19.57x19.57) pixels per square degree. The Vive and Oculus have a screen resolution of 1080/1200 per eye. Therefore: 100 degrees diagonal gives a pixel value of 1615. So the vFOV is 74.3 degrees (100/1615=74.3/1200) and the vPD is 16.15. The hFOV is 66.87 degrees (100/1615=66.87/1080) and the hPD is also 16.15. This means that the Odyssey has right at 261 (16.15x16.15) pixels per square degree. So if I’m doing this correctly then the Odyssey has 122 pixels (or about 32%) per square degree more than the Rift and Vive. Is this right?

This Zotac became available this evening while I was comparing cards. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500426 It was the best price card with great reviews, so I bit. Considering that the initial retail price of a 1080ti was $699 then one with a EK waterblock for $819 isn't bad.

Yea the 1080ti just makes the most sense. The card has to have a waterblock installed so I'm leaning towards this one as it matches my Asus C6H motherboard. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126202 Unfortunately it's out of stock everywhere right now. I may have to get one of the other blocked offerings if the Asus isn't available when my HMD comes in.

Now to decide between a Vega64 and a 1080ti because I don’t think a pair of 290s is going to run the new HMD.

Pre-ordered. I’ve demo’ed the Rift and Vive. I bought the Pimax and returned it. This unit sounds like what I’ve been waiting for. I’ll let you know when it arrives.

I Turn off the roll axis. No more than 90 deg up or down. Yaw axis doesn't kick in until past looking at the side screens.

I don't use a Rift (yet). But if the snapview keeps getting changed I would make the file read only.

ignore me. The search feature really does work... duh.

Has this issue been corrected yet? Has anyone setup their Monitor LUA and FOV in DCS? I will have a Pimax next week to test and would like to try it out with DCS.

I went with size over refresh rate. 3 39" low latency TVs allowed me to replicate the size of a cockpit. I aligned the bezels with the cockpit frame and never noticed them. Head tracking is a must regardless of what you choose.

Nice. I have a G13 that I got for Christmas last year that's still sitting in its box. My mini keyboard needs replacing, how do you like yours? What are your MFDs and joystick mounted with? They look pretty cool.

I've seen it. I want to see how you've wired it.The panel DXF files would be great too :D

It was a special order. The price was comparable to the other one as you can see.

Here it is: JOHNSON PLASTICS No Carolina 6210-B HACKERS BEND CRT WINSTON-SALEM,NC 27103-9501 United States of America Sent By: Ginger Moss, Ph 800-869-7870, Fax 770-236-9625, Email gingerm@johnsonplasti Description_______________________________________ _____________________ 2.00 ENGPLAS EA 91.6800 183.36 ENGRAVING PLASTIC ** PART NUMBR: LM922401 COLOR : BLACK/TRANSLUCENT WHITE ** PLY : TWO PLY THICKNESS : 1/16 ** COMMENT 1 : MFG TIME 5-10 DAYS ARO ** GA WAREHOUSE TO CUT MATERIAL ** ** DOWN INTO 8 "12 X 24 SHEETS" ** ** MATERIAL TO RIDE FROM MFG TO ** ** GA WAREHOUSE. ** Est Material Tot: 183.36 Est Handling: 2.50 Actual Freight Will Be Billed Est Total Quote: 185.86

I'll pull my receipt to get you the product number. The cool thing about the stuff is that there is no painting or prep work to prepare the top plate of the panel. I bought it, put it on the laser bed, then completely cut out and engraved all of my panel top plates in one pass. Almost too simple. While it is a matte finish, Agrasyuk is right that the finish is a bit shiny. But after brush painting the edges black I put on a coat of matte picture protector paint (from Michael's) that both protects the panel and gives it an even more matte finish.