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It would be great if it were possible to buy more sensors and have them be synced. It seems like the technology is so good, yet so underutilized and unpolished, even after a pretty long time.

I have a LeapMotion controller stuck on the front of a G2. When I run the LeapMotion app, (using the Gemini drivers), hand tracking is nearly perfect. However when I start DCS, the hands that appear are very poorly tracked in comparison. The pimax has the newer wide FOV hardware so it could be better, but it seems the trouble does not lie in hardware but steam driver or refresh rate or something like that.

After the recent updates, my hands work in DCS. They are however rather useless as the tracking just isn't there...

I had a 3080 early on just as 6900XT was announced and I returned the 3080 without trying it as I haven't had the headset yet. My feeling is the 6900xt can be pushed much further eventually.

I'm trying it now. In the video examples you can see the hands, but not the controllers. I can see either hands + controllers in SteamVR (hands move fine, controllers very bad), or controllers alone (super bad). What do I do to see hands only? It seems like hands only could actually be useful.

Note that LeapMotion released new generation of drivers this winter that made tracking pretty much perfect as far as I can see. (In their app, I suspect it might have broken the steamvr interface somehow..)

Good point. I didn't think about other post processing. I do have MSAA turned on because I have pretty terrible jagginess on other airplanes sitting on the ramp in most cases. Not investing 100% effort into it, VR optimization seems to be not that easy...

At least with the G2 and F14 I feel looking back is very natural so personally I don't need one. I haven't spent much time in DCS in VR but I do wonder whether I should be worried about twisting my head in a certain way so that I don't cause neck strain, perhaps you guys with neck injuries know. I would get stiff back when playing with TrackIR for extended time, I guess due to the fact that I needed to make very accurate head movements? VR might actually be better for the neck than TrackIR for me.

What I see is that comparing 1.0 PD / 100% and 0.5 PD / 500% on the G2 I get what appears to be a much worse quality (but faster) image on the 0.5/500%. Unless the scaling for distortion is a function of presented resolution (which I imagine it isn't?), more pixels should be rendered at 0.5PD/500% so this doesn't really make sense to me.

Oh, thanks. I assumed it wasn't (having only flown the pilotless F14).

Well maybe that explains why havok sees hands and I see a controller connected to a fixed hand? It feels I'm doing something wrong. There are different controllers that can be set in the leap driver, but I don't really want any controller I guess.

I would also enjoy it if the kneeboard was on the flightsuit...

For me the tracking in leap is practically flawless with the new Gemini drivers, but the tracking in steamvr is horrible and instead of hands it shows the emulated controllers. I have not tried DCLeap yet but it seems so close - if I had what I see in leap in steam, I think it could just work.

Is there any effect on the FOV? I'm asking because I believe the FOV with glasses on is slightly larger than without glasses for me (they are relatively weak, -2.25, -1.5).

I ordered a sapphire 6900 and it's saying "Expected tomorrow". I believe it when it arrives because it seems like I would be among the first people to receive a custom 6900 if that's true.

Are you referring to JayRoc's tests? Those shouldn't be CPU bottlenecked at all having a 5900/5600 processor.

I meant middle of 2021 of course. I'm not that optimistic. And stop laughing! Baking silicon wafer is no child's play. I tried baking them in my oven a dozen times now and nothing useful is coming out. Always looks like a pizza and my kids eat it. Maybe I should put less flour in. Locally there are great news about the 6800xt custom design cards. You will be able to preorder them! Like - they don't know if or when they would ship, nobody has seen one yet, and the official statement is that you'd have to be an optimist to think you'll see them this year..

I sold an unopened 3080 I bought and am planning to buy 6900XT, hopefully for the same price I got from the 3080. My understanding is that the 6900XT is really fast and can be overclocked pretty well and should be quite good for an obsolete game engine like DCS. Note that most of the 3080/6800 tests use DX12 games. I imagine that would make them more 3080 friendly. My optimistic hopes are that by the middle of 2021 I can buy a 6900XT for only $300 more than retail price and maybe in spring 2022 my HP Reverb G2 that I pre-ordered in August arrives... I heard AMD already made 7 6900XT cards and 8th one is being made and will be boxed by the end of the year.

In the end I sold the 3080 I got for about $1100 and will see if I can get a 6900xt instead. Though that might force me to replace my brand new 10700k and motherboard :/

Yup, I paid ~$800 for a TUF OC. Thanks for the advice. I think I was mostly worried about 10 vs 16GB of RAM, I'm getting a G2 and I like playing on multiplayer servers...

So if you've seen them, would you go for a 3080 or a 6800XT with a 10700k? The moment I went to cancel my 3080 order it turned to shipped. Damn it.

The 6800xt seems to have quite a bit higher clock frequencies, and ability to push more textures, and more RAM. I think it's worse than the 3080 in RT and it seems to have much lower floating point operations/s. My uninformed guess is that it will be quite a bit faster for DCS while possibly slower for new titles that I don't play... I think I'll drop the 3080 order though it may come any day now.

So, one step down - would you go with the 3080 or 6800 XT for G2? I have the 3080 on preorder and it could get shipped one of these days but I'm considering waiting for the 6800 XT for extra 6GB of RAM..