JDski Posted January 25, 2009 Posted January 25, 2009 (edited) Lets say you had built a cockpit with everything in it. Could you change your main displays into virtual windows? What I mean is, so they are not showing any of the cockpit. In addition, say you have a 3 monitor setup and your using a trackIR. You wouldn't want the view to pan around with your head anymore. Instead, you would disable those axises. What you would have is just side to side, up and down, and in and out. But when you move to the left, you would be able to see more to the right out of the center monitor and vise versa and the same with up and down. When you move in, the view would show more, just as you would be able to see a wider view if you were looking out of a real window. Instead of panning around to look to your right for instance, you just look at the right monitor, and shift your head around to look around between window obstructions which would also be the frames of your monitors. Hopefully I've explained this enough. But if you could do this and have it balanced right, your monitors would act just as though they were virtual windows. Here are some examples http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBdtPz2V_vY Also, you could have just the hud modled and implemented in a way that makes it look like it's sitting closer to you then the window itself. Much like those rods in the video seem to extend beyond the monitor. Edited January 25, 2009 by JDski
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