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blksolo

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  1. My bad,wishful thinking on my part lol
  2. So I was watching the stream of Wags flying a Huey in the Normandy map and he mentioned that he was using one of those entry level Thrustmaster throttles with rudders on the throttles and then he mentioned something about a Thrustmaster Hornet coming out later this year. I wonder if this is a hard core level throttle like the warthog and I also wonder if this signals the release date of DCS Hornet..Hmmmmm.
  3. I wouldnt show them DCS at all if they dont fly,it will probably make them sick and turn them off to VR. I would stick with some mild stuff from Oculus Home first.
  4. I was in the Marines at a FARP during Desert Storm at a place called Tanajib Airport which was mostly AH-1W Cobras and Harriers. We had to build a runway with these giant aluminum rectangles that locked together because apparently a Harrier cant land or take off on just an everyday runway, it will blow away the concrete, or at least thats what we were told. In the beginning the Cobras and Harriers would go out with insane loadouts and come back with nothing all day every day 24/7 for like a month, it was insane the amount of ordinance they dropped. I was in the chow line one day and listened as one pilot was talking to another pilot about how he dropped cluster bombs on an Iraqi unit that was out in the open, he inverted to see the bombs hit and then came around again to strafe. As the war wound down the Harriers would come back with ordinance, although they rarely did any vertical takeoffs or landings.
  5. I remember when I got my DK1 I was like I feel sorry for those guys that built those sim pits,they are useless now. I have never been so wrong. Sim pits and VR go hand in hand, I just dont have the skill to build one lol. Here's something that would nice, someone needs to invent a modular sim pit, I'm thinking a velcro tape like circuit board where you just stick toggle switches knobs etc to it and you can move them around depending on the sim. Then have it be wifi or bluetooth so you dont have wires everywhere. One of you smart guys need to get on that lol.
  6. With that rig you need to bite the bullet and get the Warthog lol
  7. The Vive was not created in a year, Steam had been working on it for years, look back around 2012-2013 when they were giving demos of VR. Vive was not created from "scratch" in one year.
  8. What everyone needs to understand is that VR is in its infancy. People have an unrealistic vision of how fast the technology will progress. The "Dev Kits" you see at GDC now probably wont be available for a few years. Right now I look at Oculus as the benchmark for development time as far as VR is concerned. The rift was debuted in 2012 and did not hit the market until 2016 and that was with Facebook money. Realistically I dont see a real upgrade coming for 3 to 4 years. Buy now and enjoy!!!
  9. For those of you with a rift but no touch,this is the perfect time to get touch at 99 dollars even if you are only into sims. A CV1 without touch is like going back to DK1, its that good!!
  10. I just got a 980ti Overclocked a year ago, I'm gonna skip this cycle and go with the next generation.
  11. So let me get this straight. Oculus and Steam have been stating for 5 years that they cant do affordable HIGH resolution VR because the video card technology/affordability for it isnt ready but you have inside knowledge? SLI is not an option right now due to the latency. The key word here is AFFORDABLE. I'm sure Nvidia and AMD have a card right now that could do 4k or more per eye in VR in DCS with all the bells and whistles at the low low price of.......20,000 dollars.
  12. I think touch has huge potential for DCS especially if we're talking A-10C with all the switches and knobs. As far as finding the controllers it's easy, you can see them virtually even when you sit them down, and when you go to pick them up they are exactly where you expect them to be. In one of the sports games on Oculus Home I can toss a football back and forth between hands and it feels very natural.
  13. I have been following the rift since day one. I had the DK1,DK2, Gear VR Innovators Edition, Gear VR consumer version and the CV1. Get the rift now and dont look back. This technology is not as fast paced as the mobile market. I'm thinking there wont be a CV2 for at least 3 or 4 years. VR technology isnt the problem, the problem is graphics cards, Nvidia and ATI need to step up their game. To run VR at the resolution and FOV that most of us want is probably 5, maybe 10 years away from a affordability standpoint. It's like going back in time to 1990 and saying I'm not going to buy a TV right now, I'm going to wait until HDTV comes out. You are going to miss a lot of good TV shows in that time frame lol.
  14. I think it would work great. The problem I have with knobs and controls is I can never seem to lean in close enough to get a close up of things far left and right,especially the radio numbers and ILS/TACAN info.
  15. For some games yes,others not so much. It's funny you mentioned that because my brothers left arm is paralyzed and I want to visit him and show him touch but he wont get that same wow factor out of it as you or I would.
  16. I have the touch and we definitely need DCS support,especially for the Warthog startup sequences. It is unreal how good they are.
  17. I usually point a fan at my face if I plan on using the rift for a long period of time,it alleviates the problem of heat for me.
  18. I have the same issue,I have the head tracking issues inside the cockpit also. I would NOT recommend downloading this update. I would skip it and wait for a fix,it is unplayable in its current state.
  19. For me the debug tool only works on DCS 2.0 Alpha,it doesnt work with the Beta version.
  20. I can tell you on the DK2 the IPD software used was perfect,I had my IPD checked by an optometrist and it was exactly what DK2 said it was.
  21. I have the double image bug also,but it is intermittent and it happens in Oculus games for me as well.
  22. Maybe I need to look into this usb card,I get a sensor not connected error when I load Oculus Home,I have to reboot to make it go away
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