Hand shadow in VR

[tezak]

Hi,

It would be great if we could have the ability to shade the sunglare on the mpcds with the vr hands. It would be extremely useful and great for inmersion.

It´s already been a couple of times I´ve tried to do it without realizing while playing.

[cfrag]

22 hours ago, tezak said:

shade the sunglare on the mpcds with the vr hands

That would require a VR setup where your hands are tracked. If you are flying with VR controllers, that would be a possibility. I'm flying with HOTAS, so my hands aren't tracked, and this would require that I add additional tracking devices to my hands. Definitely possible with my VR rig, but I'm not much interested in spending some 100 USD per hand just to raise them (it's positional tracking, not finger tracking - the fingers of the hand will not be animated and the hand will look like it was carved from stone, quite immersion breaking). 

And then you'd have to implement full IK (Inverse Kinetics) animation for the pilot model so the bode moves to keep the hand attached to the arm attached to the body. Computationally intensive. So yes, a definite possibility, but I'm not convinced that it's worth the effort.

[A.F.]

Tracking the hands is possible with Leap Motion. The virtual fingers move like the original.
And you can operate switches in the cockpit. (Only with ED modules)
However, the hands do not create shadows

[edmuss]

7 minutes ago, A.F. said:

Tracking the hands is possible with Leap Motion. The virtual fingers move like the original.
And you can operate switches in the cockpit. (Only with ED modules)
However, the hands do not create shadows

Well actually....

I noticed the other week that the leap hands are casting shadows, I don't know how effective they might be at shading the MFDs though, I'll have to have a try!

Edited August 18, 2023 by edmuss

[A.F.]

vor 3 Minuten schrieb edmuss:

Well actually....

I noticed the other week that the leap hands are casting shadows, I don't know how effective they might be at shading the MFDs though, I'll have to have a try!

 

Really??  I have to try that out right away

[edmuss]

Indeed, I noticed the shadows on the cockpit, in theory they might cast onto the instruments and shade it enough?

[edmuss]

Just tested it, with the leap motion hands you can 100% shadow your instruments.  Only tested on the A10 syria free flight but if the sun is glaring off the glass you can raise your hand to shade it

[draconus]

On 8/19/2023 at 11:29 PM, edmuss said:

Just tested it, with the leap motion hands you can 100% shadow your instruments.

That's one more point to the Leap motion, thx

[cfrag]

19 hours ago, draconus said:

That's one more point to the Leap motion

Indeed - seems I have to re-visit them Leap Motion devices (I owned one a couple of years ago, and was disappointed. That was before VR).