Bob_Bushman

Same for audio. I don't know anyone interested in decent audio that would consider the cv1 or reverb solution anywhere near decent anyways. So like with the cv1 or vive, or pimax. Om just using my regular gaming cans, I mostly use a pair of wireless g533, not good audio, but ok, and comfortable. Also tested with a pair of Kingston hyper-x etc. All no problem fitting over the S. Just expand the band a little, and place the left cup first so it comes under the cable. The only HMD I would expect to have ok audio out of the box would probably be the Index. What I would consider as a bit more important and half the reason I'm staying with oculus is the software and dash. It's just miles beyond Steamvr in user-friendly ui and the closest you get to a hassle free VR experience. It's sad you have to go Facebook for that, but steamvr has been stuck at it's inception in terms of ui, oculus has been polishing dash for years now and Valve hasn't even solved bugs I noticed on day 1 of owning a pre-order Vive 1.

Virpil t50 should be right up your alley, only option below the expensive FFB stuff that all your grips fit as well. Been using mine, no play, no curves no additional deadzones. No adjustment needed since I settled on my cams and spring setup. Which was sometime summer 2018. Only reason I have recalibrated since was due to changing grips and updating firmware.

I have bought mine full price, no regrets. Use it almost everyday. And I have the cv1, Vive 1, and a pimax 5k. Out of those I choose to use the S. I also got a quest, that I later sold to my nephew.

Unfortunately, the Passthrough feature is only activated by pressing the touch controllers dash button, it works of course, like with any feature, since this is a core function of the oculus software, like dash view. There is already a suggestion which has barely seen any traction whatsoever :( https://oculus.uservoice.com/forums/918556-oculus-rift-s-and-rift/suggestions/37732891-enable-a-keybind-for-passthrough But I also wouldn't consider it much of an anti-nausea feature, the image is far to blurry, far to wobbly. Especially things close to yourself, like your hands have a lot of swimming, and the frame rate is very low, and all these things would more than not induce more nausea. That said, it has it's uses, but I would be vary if you are prone to a little nausea. Personally I have the oculus software set to disable home (this is a feature in dash itself now, don't need to install homeless) and passthrough on when dash is enabled, so I press my dash button once, and I get a passthrough with 200" large virtual desktop view. Welcome to VR, I personally probably wouldn't be simming without it :D

DCS has never been "current", it's all 15+20 years or more snapshots in time. It's up to mission designers to pair something off, or you get calls to please nerf the f16 cause the p-51 can't compete in AA

Doesn't really matter what module you choose. You have a lot to learn with all of them, especially those marked "study-sim". As for me, my method for learning a module is as following. Startup, nothing fancy, just get things running, I'm ignoring the NATOPS checklists. Taxi and take off. Then I goof around, testing climb, turn and stall characteristics. Followed by a simple landing. I don't bother loading weapons onboard until I'm comfortable to pull off a cold start from memory and can land it at a moderate wind conditions. Then I start weapon systems, all the while still doing cold starts and landings. Sure you can press lwin+home and have the script start for you, or just start hot, go pew pew against npc's or pvp even, and eject when you run dry of missiles. Personally I'm just not in a rush, and I like to know a system pretty well before I add another.

I got a blue Yeti about a year ago and it blows any headset mic away, especially makes any wireless headset mic sound like muffled garbage in comparison. It does pickup anything though, so using voice activation is sometimes a challenge, I had instances where I forgot, and continued chatting on discord from across the apartment, I wasn't even shouting. If you want to take the extra mile, figure out how your mic works best. By downloading something like audacity and listen to the playback of a few test phases. Like the blue Yeti, it needs about a foot of space to sound it's absolute best. The yeti isn't like amazing, but discord also compress your audio so you can easily hear a difference between a local recording and what comes through it., Just saying, so for online chatting it's better than what you actually can use, there is probably better for self recording and streaming, but it's plenty good enough , but those would cost several hundred dollars.

MP is generally more demanding, but I don't think there is that much perf difference between the two versions unless something specific entered beta. As for me I play beta only, simply because 96% of all MP servers and groups run the OB and not stable.

Doesn't work like that. SLI doesn't pool resources this way, each card runs on its own pool of memory so each card needs the same data in it's 11gb so with 2 2080ti's you still only have 11GB vram. And as has been mentioned, VR and SLI isn't a thing, period, it's not supported except for a very few titles still to this day. Besides the main limiting factor of DCS and performance isn't GPU, it's the cpu core thread limit. The game simply is to old to leverage what hardware we have, if it did you could have run the game in VR at 90fps with a 1070.

Havent looked into it lately or much at all, but I believe you can use API pulls for motion data, translate that to soundwaves and run a buttkicker. I know this is used in racing with several different channels for vibrations from engine rev rumble, transmission vibrations to road/bump vibrations to etc etc. This is imo the way to use buttkicker, fi you just run it as an LFE channel it is a safe excuse for decent subwoofer and nothing more, but using as a motion feedback system it could be very rewarding. The buttkicker brand is mostly pricing on name recognition and from what I have gathered around not really that great, but the transducer market is tiny. But in essence any amplifier would do the job to a varying degrees. And the transducer is basically a subwoofer element without the cone. The first who started with this would cut the cone off subwoofer elements and bolt into a couch.

Can land the hornet fairly consistent on the stennis . But I hardly ever catch the third wire :p

SSD's have taken a hit in price I really wouldn't get less than 500gb one at this time. Seriously you get a WD blue 500gb for $60 on Amazon. You want to get at least two things on that SSD , windows and dcs. And DCs would easily fill 250gb drive to capacity if you have a couple of maps and other games like Red dead redemption 2 is like 150GB now. Ideally I'd get a 250MB m.2, blindingly fast for OS and a TB SSD drive for games, and skip the old mechanical drive entirely. 32Gb is not vital. At all nowhere near 19 out of 20 missions I never see RAM go past 16GB anyways, and loading on the fly is far quicker in flight with an SSD over a hard drive while also decreasing load time between 50-70%. Massive improvement just moving the install to an SSD, getting another 16GB RAM, not really noticeable at all. Also recommend putting it together yourself, I've been doing that since the 90's and it has never been easier than right now. If you can read a manual, and tell which end of a screwdriver that is pointy you are qualified.

Yes they are highly model specific, price depends on prescription, but expect between $100+$200 for a set. Personally with the S, I have no real need for them. I have plenty of room inside for even my now, nearly oversized specs, with no bumping or grating, and these frames for instance did not fit inside the CV1.

I think we will see only one HMD next time around from Oculus, and I expect more companies to follow this format. And it will be a standalone, but with something akin to a thunderbolt connection that will allow for it to take a direct fed display data as well. It could then for instance just use it's own internal processing for tracking data, and all it would need to pass down the cable would be vectors and not a video feed. The onboard battery could help alleviate the power issues that plague VR HMD's even. I don't see any of these things as a bad thing, and it would make a standalone work as well as a tethered without the latency issues you now get using quest and wifi streaming or Oculus Link. I don't consider any of this to be a bad thing, or a negative towards PC-VR. But I also expect there to be at least two years before we see another HMD coming out of Oculus.

A thing with S it might work well with lower spec hardware but for us with a bit more, means we can crank some settings. The more time I spend with it, the greater the value I think get from the price, granted it is with the massive caveat of IPD fit. I happen to be as perfectly fit for it as I think possible. And when using steamvr reliant devices, granted I have not tested a WMR device yet I really miss the oculus dash interface, primarily with the adjustable, scaling desktop view that allows for doing any out of game tasks like looking up howtos, dealing with discord etc etc without having to remove the hmd at all, since I use regular headphones over the unit and needing glasses getting in and out is a bit of a do. The desktop view in steamvr really cannot compare. From what I garner here from the reverb and settings is that it's not so different from the S apart from the pixel density setting. With PD of 1.3 on the S I run a total resolution slightly higher than that of the reverb does natively and most say any supersampling isn't really necessary on the reverb. I must say I'm getting tempted to test a reverb, seeing it on sale at a local store chain for $650 and they have a 60 day open return policy... But it seems a bit extravagant to get yet another one considering I have four HMD's currently.. The XTAL looks great and all. But VR is still in the space that for the next 6 yesrs, I'm guessing, each new generation will have major advances making the former series seem very lacking.

I'd be hard pressed to spend $7k on an HMD now, no matter how great that is, it will be superseded in less than five years yet. Pimax, my only recommendation is avoid them like the plague, they have been a year long headache, and that's after the unit arrived, of which five months was spent trying to RMA and get a working unit, and I ended boxing up my 5k+ in favour of the CV1!, and I ordered the S the very hour the pre-order started, sure it's got decent FOV but everything else is a worse off, you need to run the equivalent of 2x PD compared to the S on the 5k, since the lenses distort heavily and focus and enlarge the center, you actually get a lower practical resolution than the S, the big numbers in resolution come from the wide horisontal that only works as a blurred extra FOV, if looking for sharp focused area again. :insert_eyeroll: The current state of the head strap is awful, and it's literally impossible to wear glasses inside the 5k, it has less room inside than the CV1 and even if you wear contacts or don't need it, flops around and honestly is a touch on the painful side to wear for more than 20 minutes. The rift's and vive and I could wear for hours. And they still can't actually provide base stations or controllers, unless something major has changed, I doubt it, but you have a vive kit as well. The real deal breaker for me with the pimax, besides the incessant bugs, that get compounded by the bugs in SteamVR, is the inherent motion lag, you move your head, and it takes the pimax a noticeable split second to respond to that motion, it feels really weird and you can never get away from it, regardless of refresh rates, Pimax has of course been completely ignoring the matter. It's a bit like the displays has a 10-15ms input latency. Most backers I know have been trying to sell their units, but nobody is buying. So I'd say the reverb compares quite favourably with Pimax, and I'd say working with HP support lines is probably easier as well, Pimax will blatantly promise something, then you don't hear a thing for two weeks, when you get another email from a completely different person, and yes those emails start coming outside of their ticket system so it's not tracked on their end.. Even if the device was perfect, I'd recommend people avoid Pimax from the customer support alone. I'd get a Reverb or an Index, personally I'm happy with the S for now, but Valve still refuses to sell index's to the EEA.

I'll take your word for it, it's almost two years since I last saw it :P

If they are going to make a concession for anyone, and most likely, steamVR will be able to use the same feedback when they catch up, so it's only a vendor specific tweak for now. And as it stands, Oculus is 50+% of the VR market, just looking at the steam hardware survey.

Some personal preference of course. But I would expect the quest to be a smidge better than the cv1, and a small step behind the dedicated S, if comparing to the other desktop offering. I, and pretty much everyone, would consider the quest to have the broader appeal and market cause not everyone is nuts enough to spend $1000 on just a GPU as the rest of us here. I would also be very surprised if the next hmd Oculus make isnt another standalone, just with a direct display connection. The rift-s hmd side connection feed both USB and display data through the same port as is.

Yup, spacewarp artefacts from the interpolation to 80, we all got it. Even if you turn it off Oculus will still trigger if the frame times reach a certain threshold. One thing I can let you in on though, is that Oculus has the least annoying interpolation artefacts of the lot, that I have tried, and that includes the Vive, and a Pimax 5k+. It's personal opinion for sure, but I much rather have smoothness of ASW engaged rather than a stuttering ghosting mess that you get with it off. Personally I use Oculus tray to tool to force it on since there is a minor hiccup when it engages\disengages.

No I don't think there would be major problems for 99% of cases. But there is the possible edge case where a user throw on the warbird extra heavy cams and the hardest springs and a long extension. For the t50 the bottom plate is only attached by four fine threaded M3 screws after all. For the warbrd the bottom fixture is using a bit larger screws and the cams and springs for that have significantly lower force potential than what is possible to get with the t50. That said I have actually mounted my t50 from the bottom and used that like this for a year and half of daily use, but I'm using the Cosmo-sim cams and soft springs. The gimbal is barely any heavier than my old CH fighterstick as it is now. But just the standard cams with medium springs had me almost having to brace myself against the floor to engage full deflection.

1) I don't think they bother, they recommend not using extensions on the warbrd, since it has a wider deflection than the t50 as well, and this could result in the grip bumping into the deskmount, it's a bit of self coverage, but it's not like the thing won't work, or that they will be unreasonable if you get a problem. There are many who do use the warbrd with an extension, they just make sure to have the right clearance etc. Their main support guy is both intelligent and know how many configurations their kit is being used with, I have never gotten a hard time dealing with Virpil support. 2,3) I think the Warbrd gimbal could be fitted to a warthog type mount, but I'm only guessing, I know the throttle is matched. I can be mistaken. The t50 mount point is not the base, but the front, there is bracket there that mounts directly into the main gimbal mechanism, this because Virpil doesn't expect the t50 casing to be able to handle the forces mounting to the casing if using the heavier springs and cams. This is the mount point for the t50 4, 5) You can try the https://virpil-controls.eu/vpc-universal-compact-base-plate.html, but keep in mind this just attaches to the casing on the t50 so not for use with the hardest springs and cams. 6) If in stock, I have mostly had about a week before they shipping, rest should be up to the courier. 7) I would indeed expect that, but I thought EU members would be charged directly I'm from EEA so get hit with a bill a few days later for the VAT. I have both the old t50 and a warbrd, having them in a right and left stick setup, the warbrd is in my opinion not an inferior stick, it's just different.

If it's jumping severely enough to make hitting buttons with the mouse that sounds very severe. I noticed for instance the other day I was seeing a little noise/wobble primarily noticed this as if my cockpit flightstick in elite dangerous was vibrating, a bit like the old cv1 used to do. But I remember the S being as perfectly still as could be. Hm what could be going, well one of my recent addition to my setup was four TM-cougsr MFD button panels, and I had those on the lower lot setting and these looked to be strobing in the passthrough. I then proceeded to turn off the LED's on those and suddenly it was all stable again. I'm not saying this is your problem, but it could be worth to have a look around using the S passthrough view and look for lightsources that are flickering or strobing.

Not really, we get it back in free education and healthcare. Since my mother just got through an early detected case of breast cancer both cancer and debt free I'll happily pay my VAT on what is essentially a luxury item.

Well if the 2080ti wouldn't have been several hundred more expensive than the 1080ti, or a little more performance difference I would have been on it. But I was also spending a lot of cash this while on the HOTAS and various DCS modules. I passed on the 2080ti mainly due to how expensive it was, and 30% more performance would mainly be 20% less than what I would consider acceptable for shelling out $1400, yes it would that much in my country. And what I'm getting out of the 1080ti is "ok".