Recommendations for tracking adversaries in DCS.

[Paver]

Essentially new to digital flight on DCS.  Without a means to track air adversaries it's impossible to keep sight.  I have been considering VR.  Please jump in and advise your experience and what you use to help keeping track of adversaries.  Thinking of buying the Oculus system.  

[BitMaster]

1: I'd try one out before I'd buy one. Most love it but some, incl. me, can't overcome nausea after a few minutes and can't use VR as it is as of now.

2: Make sure your system can handle VR at your desired LOD.

 

 

 

[Paver]

System can handle it easy, but Nausea, now that is interesting.  What system do you use for keeping visual of an air adversary.  

 

[RED]

For DCS, the HP Reverb G2 is still the go to headset. RTX3080/RX6800XT or better is recommended. Nausea will likely be there during the first couple of flights. For me it was really bad. If you immediately stop when you get sick you will get used to it. Currently I feel no effects from using VR.

 

Other options are various headtracker using opentrack or the more expensive TrackIr.

[Lurker]

On 9/14/2021 at 10:39 PM, Paver said:

System can handle it easy, but Nausea, now that is interesting.  What system do you use for keeping visual of an air adversary.  

 

 

What system is that? As I have an i5-9600k overclocked to 4.8Ghz, a RTX3090, AIO Watercooling solution, and a NVME M2 SSD 1 TB and I'm still struggling with DCS World and using the G2. Don't under-estimate the system requirements for VR. They are HUGE. 

 

 

[sirrah]

Reverb user here with "just" a 1080ti and perfectly happy with that (at least until GPU prices drop). Definitely no need for a 3080 or 6800 to enjoy DCS in VR. As stated in the first reply, it's all about your expectations on level of detail.

 

Personally I won't touch any Oculus product anymore, because I don't have and don't want a FaceBook account (as I heard is necessary for Oculus software to run). Had the cv1 once and enjoyed it back then, but now I'd advise the Reverb (2nd hand G1, or G2 new)

 

As for nausea; Sure, you might get dizzy at start, but that'll probably go a way in no time. Fwiw, personally I never experienced any nauseating effect, unless something was really wrong (usually performance or "me" related), like way too low fps, jitters, suddenly going from 6-DOF to 3-DOF due to loss of tracking. Used PSVR, Rift cv1, VIVE and now Reverb G1.

Trying VR could be a way to find out, but make sure to have enough time to properly get used to VR. If you do feel nausea, you might need to put the headset off and try again later.

 

(friend of mine once sat down in my VR seat, he pretty much started sweating instantaneously when trying out Assetto Corsa and had to take a break before trying again. After 30 mins he was completely turned over and I he didn't want to leave my playseat for a few hours )