Voice commands or switches?

With an HMD On the way I am contemplating taking apart my partially completed Pit. I primarily use Helios on a 22” touch screen but realize that won’t be an option in VR. I was thinking of getting a set of MFCD panels to mount where I can access them without seeing them. What should I do about all of the rest of the stuff? Do you guys use physical panels, voice commands, or some other form of system manipulation?

With an HMD On the way I am contemplating taking apart my partially completed Pit. I primarily use Helios on a 22” touch screen but realize that won’t be an option in VR. I was thinking of getting a set of MFCD panels to mount where I can access them without seeing them. What should I do about all of the rest of the stuff? Do you guys use physical panels, voice commands, or some other form of system manipulation?

I use Voice Attack to center the screen as well as triggering function key dialog with Tower/JTAC.

I also use the keyboard ONLY at the start of sessions to slide the A10C seat back so my nose isnt pressed up against the HUD. All other functions are mapped to my CH Fighter Stick / Pro Throttle and Pedals. And it is a joy flying in VR.

I found another thread from back in March. Seems like there are as many ideas for systems control as there are people. I have several ideas. I bought a psmove camera and made an ir controller that I used when I had a Pimax for a couple of weeks. Maybe I can turn it into a glove like virtual touchpad.

How about this for an idea. Use a thin left handed silk glove liner so my hand doesn’t overheat in it. Attach a single ir led to the top of the index finger at the fingernail. On the outside of the index finger mount 2 micro switchs. On the back of the glove mount a 3 AAA cell battery pack. The psmove software ( or freetrack) can emulate mouse control. wire the switches as mouse 1 and 2. So then you can naturally point and click every control on the virtual cockpit.

Anyone see any problems with this?

Refining the idea.

Disassemble a wireless mouse to mount the required components to the glove. You will still need the ir led and tracking camera.

I wonder if you can use a 0 point value in freetrack and just use the X and Y axis. Then check the mouse emulation box. That would make it a single point tracker. Gonna go try it now. I can just cover up 2 of my hat clip leds to simulate a single point.

Be back later.

This is what I’ve done and it works flawlessly on a monitor.

I installed the program “Camera Mouse 2017”.

Followed the super simple instructions to lock the tracking onto the led and off I went.

The led will move the mouse pointer and you can use the mouse buttons and scroll wheel as you normally do. If you move the mouse then functionality returns to the mouse. I used a track ball so I didn’t have to worry about mouse movement when clicking and scrolling. I will make the glove tomorrow to test it out better.

This should work great for my Odyssey and the Vive. As the Rift uses ir for head tracking some of you can probable use a non ir camera and a bright light source to track.

My Odyssey will be here Monday but I probably won’t get to try it in DCS until support is addd in December.

I hope someone will try this and post back here.

i have the mouse cursor locked to my head movements and i have assigned left and right click to my throttle. never had an issue in full clickable cockpits and my throttle is currently a logitech 3d pro mounted onto some pvc pipe and pop stick arms to move the potentiometer.