Oculus Rift S With DCS World Discussion

Hey Wags, just to make sure we're seeing what you're seeing with those Rift-S units, send one of them to me and I'll concur with your findings sir. PM me for the address and thanks! Also, maybe when it's not so hot, let us know when we may join you at your desert house and do some volunteer voiceover work for upcoming modules, ATC, JTAC, Carrier, Etc...let us lend some variety to the game at no cost to you except a few beers and pizzas!

JUICE

tried my new rift S yesterday and flown with :

A-10C

F18

P51D

and man... i never tried VR but this is insane.

No motion sickness. Yes if i look and focus on a tree I see some pixels but its immersive enough.

Years ago I was building a full simpit now im chilling behind my desk with my headset on :)

tried my new rift S yesterday and flown with :

 

A-10C

 

F18

 

P51D

 

 

 

and man... i never tried VR but this is insane.

 

No motion sickness. Yes if i look and focus on a tree I see some pixels but its immersive enough.

 

 

 

Years ago I was building a full simpit now im chilling behind my desk with my headset on :)

Happy flying in your new gear.

What issues? I am on 1903 and have not noticed any.

vJoy doesn't work in 1903. Other than that no visible issues for me.

My IPD is 65 and the headband just fit my head. I got a massive improvement in comfort and I mean massive by removing the faceplate (It just pulls out) and just leaving that nose rubber in there. I was playing in this thing for 4 hours plus again last night which was unheard of with the CV1, No sweat, no pressure on the face and best of all a bigger FOV then the cv1 with it off. I can crank that thing right up to my eyeballs. I got used to the light leakage in less then 5 minutes and now don't even notice it unless I crank my eyes hard right or left just to look.

 

I wasn't disappointed in the resolution of this thing because I bought it on a whim because there is many months I expect before I could get an index so in short wasn't expecting much. Just bought it really because of a lot of posts here and I came across an Amazon offer that said you could have this in 2 days buy now.

 

The more I played with this thing the more I am loving it. Yeah I get the blurring at the edges but I no longer care as if something catches my eye my head natural turns towards it and it is clear. I don't need to take the HMD off to read the virtual desktop now, passthrough lets me see where that drink is and the cockpits of the planes are just amazing... Oh snap that is oil pressure!! Same with cars, trucks, spacships whatever sim I am playing.

 

Being able to turn off the labels and being able to successfully dogfight wwII fighters was what sold it for me. You get diminishing returns with range but that is the same in real life and it isn't going to be dealt with until there is foveated rendering combined with amazing panels and RTX9million graphics cards, imo not in the next few years.

 

I have gone from excited at launch, disappointed 10 seconds after launch, hopes pinned on the Index and then an impulse buy to very happy with this thing. For the state of the hardware we have to push these things I have come to understand I really like this thing.

 

This HMD isn't a quantum leap but it is a very welcome improvement,

 

Anyway. Pull the plate mate, you may end up liking it like me, VR time is limited to toilet breaks now ;)

 

Except for the sound. LOL Sennheisers ftw.

Sums up my experience as well. It’s way more comfortable and the extra clarity makes it a great purchase, I was worried whether I was wasting my time replacing my CV1 but now very happy.

Sums up my experience as well. It’s way more comfortable and the extra clarity makes it a great purchase, I was worried whether I was wasting my time replacing my CV1 but now very happy.

Yeah same here, no way I could go back to CV1 now. Loving my Rift S.

I have just been pushed 1.38 (mandatory) and it is awful - stutters and jitters. Does anyone know how to revert and stop mandatory updates?

That is what happened to me as well today. Have you managed to solve the issue? Grrr...

Rift S Passthrough

I’m not sure if I’ve missed where this was talked about or if it just hasn’t been picked up on yet but for those that may not know, the passthrough camera now works in DCS. A press of the menu button (flat, non raised key) on the right Rift S controller now enables the pass through camera view so you can see your controllers. It is also enabled in game if you remove and replace the headset while in the cockpit. A second press of the button puts you back in game.

vJoy doesn't work in 1903. Other than that no visible issues for me.

Thank you for the heads up, i stopped my windows updates until thats worked out.

Thank you for the heads up, i stopped my windows updates until thats worked out.

Good luck. The dev says he’s done and isn’t updating it. Will take someone to build it and sign it before it can be updated.

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Good luck. The dev says he’s done and isn’t updating it. Will take someone to build it and sign it before it can be updated.

 

 

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This is a huge bummer. I rely on vJoy/FreePIE to effectively use TrackIR in non-supported games such as AceCombat 7 and No Mans Sky. Hopefully someone will pick up the tab.

This is a huge bummer. I rely on vJoy/FreePIE to effectively use TrackIR in non-supported games such as AceCombat 7 and No Mans Sky. Hopefully someone will pick up the tab.

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For those that are experiencing the bad tracking stutter with 1.38 - you might wanna check this out n give it a go.

I mananaged to completely resolve my issue. Might work for some of you, hopefully so.

Seems there might be an issue with the new update not liking ASMedia USB 3.1 gen2 ports.

Check the post and reddit link within.

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3953300&postcount=8

Cheers,

Brick.

For those that are experiencing the bad tracking stutter with 1.38 - you might wanna check this out n give it a go.

 

I mananaged to completely resolve my issue. Might work for some of you, hopefully so.

 

Seems there might be an issue with the new update not liking ASMedia USB 3.1 gen2 ports.

 

Check the post and reddit link within.

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3953300&postcount=8

 

Cheers,

Brick.

I’m having the issue connected to vanilla USB 3.0 ports, unfortunately. I am not sure if they are straight from the chipset or via an ASMedia controller, I think they are half and half, so maybe I’ll try a port in the other stack of 4 (I have 2 stacks of 4 USB 3.0, I think one is off the chipset and one off ASMedia)

Please don't flame me if these are dumb questions... I am a VR newby.

1) Is there a way of seeing outside the VR world while still wearing the VR headset... a mapable button or something I can press while in DCS using VR so I can see my keyboard for a second or two, kit a key and then do back into VR?

2) On missions sometimes text panels get cut off and I can't read all the text. Is there a way of scrolling the text so that I can read the bottom of the text panel?

Besides this, overall impression moving from a 27" high resolution monitor with TrackIR to the Rift S is very positive. You give up resolution, but get a massive upgrade in immersion and situational awareness.

Thanks for answering / any advice. (Sorry if the questions are dumb.)

Regarding text boxes, you have two mouse cursors selected with the "clickable cockpit" toggle. The green crosshairs allow you to interact with the cockpit, the white circle allows you to interact with text and menus.

I have clickable cockpit enabled. And I see the white dot when I want to interact with menus like radio commands etc. But the problem is different. When you have text boxes (listing what the mission narrator just read out) the first 20 or so lines of text area available to read, but if the instructions are lengthy I can't scroll the text up so as to be able to read the end of the instructions.

To go VR after I got the Track IR 5 and everything else set up is going to be a hard (expensive) gulp. Going to have to wait.

Please don't flame me if these are dumb questions... I am a VR newby.

 

1) Is there a way of seeing outside the VR world while still wearing the VR headset... a mapable button or something I can press while in DCS using VR so I can see my keyboard for a second or two, kit a key and then do back into VR?

 

2) On missions sometimes text panels get cut off and I can't read all the text. Is there a way of scrolling the text so that I can read the bottom of the text panel?

 

Besides this, overall impression moving from a 27" high resolution monitor with TrackIR to the Rift S is very positive. You give up resolution, but get a massive upgrade in immersion and situational awareness.

 

Thanks for answering / any advice. (Sorry if the questions are dumb.)

1.

The S has a pass through camera mode you can enable in the dash menu settings, that is accessed by pressing the dash button on the Oculus controller twice once the feature is enabled.

Unfortunately, you can't map this to another button.

And it is isn't of a resolution where you can read the lettering on a keyboard, but you can at least see where it is.

2.

Ancient bug present with all HMD's i ahve tried so far.

Rift, rift s, pimax 5k etc.havent tried dcs with my original vive.

Can't see a reason to.

Cool, thank you Bob.

Any tips to deal with the heat of the Rift S?

Never had the issue with the CV1, but 5min in the Rift S and I'm sweating. Very unconfortable.

A fan would help, but the heat is still between my head and the Headset...

I hope VR Cover finally releases their replacement kits... Rift S foam is terrible.

Any tips to deal with the heat of the Rift S?

 

Never had the issue with the CV1, but 5min in the Rift S and I'm sweating. Very unconfortable.

 

A fan would help, but the heat is still between my head and the Headset...

 

 

 

I hope VR Cover finally releases their replacement kits... Rift S foam is terrible.

I guess somebody will fix it, because it's a really useful program, i use it to merge my racing pedals into a single axys, it works really well, and it would suck to have to buy rudder pedals just because a Windows update broke vjoy...

 

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Slim chances, next to none. The original author doesn't support it anymore, while it's relatively easy to fork it and fix it for 1903 it will require a driver signature which is money and significant amount of red tape to get through.

There was a commednable attempt on vjoy forums, but the person who tried it got blocked by red tape and now is trying some bizarre approach of having the company they work for to sign it - in other words not going to happen no sane company will sign a driver like this one.

With regards to the intermittent white noise/static that flashes on the Rift S, has anybody successfully rectified this yet, or are we still awaiting a fix from Oculus?

I think mine is getting worse which is worrying.

Originally Posted by Gruman View Post

Any tips to deal with the heat of the Rift S?

Never had the issue with the CV1, but 5min in the Rift S and I'm sweating. Very unconfortable.

A fan would help, but the heat is still between my head and the Headset...

I hope VR Cover finally releases their replacement kits... Rift S foam is terrible.

Hello, I changed my foam for a velor type interface from VR Cover, original one for the Rift or WMR works, and what a change! Just ripped the original one out and added velcro strips. Hope it helps