Just tried AC in VR

I had that exact issue last night with my Pimax 4K, just turning it off and on again ingame helped.
I guess it's some syncing issue between AC and OpenVR/SteamVR.

 

Thanks for answering, maybe we can get some help?


Ts-pc racer, t3pa with Bodin load cell brake conversion, t8ha, pc, htc vive, gt omega rig, etc.

 

Edit: Fixed it.

 

If something is rendered to a texture using a fixed camera, to alter that view taking into account the position of the drivers head (which things like VR and tracking headsets are doing) should be some vector math shouldn't it? A different camera matrix.

 

I am considering switching to VR and have a question for you guys: I just read that the feature of room scale vr is not that good on a Standard Oculus Rift.
Is room scale vr even a feature that is needed for VR in racing sims?

Thanks for your help.

 

Not for racing or cockpit style game no, only if you have to walk around


Ts-pc racer, t3pa with Bodin load cell brake conversion, t8ha, pc, htc vive, gt omega rig, etc.

 

I've never understood why people say that about the Rift, I think it comes from the early days when it only came with one sensor which isn't ideal for full room gaming. But now it comes with two sensors which is fine for full room. I have my setup in a spare bedroom and things are arranged so that I can have pretty much the full room for VR for games like table tennis or Robo Recall (about a 10'x10' area) and it works great, my sensors can track me around the entire room without problem. Well, there can be a slight problem if I'm facing away from the sensors, obviously, but that would happen with any sensor-based tracking and I can get a third sensor to mount in the back of the room so the HMD is being tracked in all directions.

So yes, the Rift works fine for room scale gaming and some of the games are totally awesome and a whole lot of fun. None of this is needed in sim racing and when I bought my Rift I presumed I'd only use it for racing games since that's all I'd played for years but I was very wrong about that.

 

Thanks for the insights.

Sounds great, I think I‘ll have to give it a try. Oo

Edit: also thank you Paul.

 

Short update: tested the Rift, got infected, goodbye triples.

 

Always the same show with those first-starters in VR...

Roomscaling in HTCX is said to be easier mto set up becasue the sensor teczhnology is different there, the mask has active sensors, while the Rigft needs to be tracked by external sensors. That makes the Vive the better choice on this detail, say many of those knowing both.

For just one example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/5sxw1j/oculus_roomscale_3_sensors_vs_vive_roomscale/

However, in cockpit simulators it hardly is a criterion, here goes the Rift first due to its slightly better image quality.

 

Now we wait for his longest post ever on RD after some hours in VR with all the oooh's and aaah's about the immersion in VR and that its not just a gimmick

 

Google to Reveal Its Pixel-packed 18MP VR Display for Wide FOV Headsets in May, LINK

 

That's a lot of Rez. Hope the gpu teams got something up their sleeve

 

Yeah, me too, like something that prevents using their GPUs for crypto-currency mining

 

Yes way more powerful and doesn't work on hash

 

As any one tried this? “Valve today released an update to SteamVR Beta that introduces a new system that automatically adjusts the VR game’s resolution in accordance with your GPU’s rendering ability. Presented by Valve Graphics Programmer Alex Vlachos in an official announcement, the auto-resolution tuner is, according to Vlachos, designed to squeeze the best possible visual experience out your GPU, lower the cost of VR, and also make developers’ lives a little bit easier.”
https://www.roadtovr.com/valve-introduces-auto-resolution-optimization-squeeze-detail-vr-headset/

 

Made a short video of what AC looks like in VR by holding my phone up to the lens. Gives a pretty good idea of what I actually see through the headset.

 

If they do I will be happy to know as well.

 

I was using the disable shadows .exe for AC but kept having to verify AC through steam I think because I would forget to shut AC and run the disable shadows program with AC running which messes up AC.exe. With shadows off there were some really dark shadows on some tracks that were really distracting (was definitely one at Silverstone 1967) I recently tried with shadows on for the first time and I think it looks really nice. Why do people run AC with shadows disabled in VR? The .exe says enjoy AC without flickering shadows, I get really distracting shadows when using this .exe and none that I have noticed without. I can understand using it for a performance gain but I don't see a benefit otherwise.

 

Tracks look absolutely terrible without shadows, I can't get how some say you won't notice and forget after a while.
But, the setting that looks and performs the best is shadows on ultra, so I base my settings around that.