Seating Position in car with VR

The other day I fired up AC after being away for three weeks. After finally getting everything working I went out to do a few laps using VR and discovered I seemed to be positioned very far forward, almost it appeared in line with the steering wheel. I was able to get what I considered to be a normal seating position pretty much the way it actually is in my car. However, I wondered what is the purpose of the forward position? All the other settings make sense, but not this one. The only possibly useful purpose might be for videos.

 

Yeah, auto position always puts you right on top of the steering wheel for some reason. I generally use the shoulders and wheel position to get a position that feels right, but sometimes the driver model is HUGE.

 

I move my head forward/backwards/ side to side and keep pressing re-centre keys until I’m happy with where it is. Usually only takes 2 or 3 attempts

 

Sometimes the cars have viewpoint set differently to make the cockpit easier to use in 2D. But the auto-pos feature in one of the built-in Apps should move your eyepoint to the position where the dirver's eyes are in the 3D model, then you can tweak it from there. Also if you go to external view with the app active, then you will also see a cross in the place where the camera is set up, so it's easier to adjust.

For example most F1 cars in AC have the default eyepoint set higher than the real car, so you can see better.

 

I look down the slight gap in the rift so I can just see where my hands are on my real wheel & try to line it up so they match the drivers hands. Makes a big difference to the driving feel.

 

I think everybody is missing my point. I had it set up correctly from the get-go. I was wondering what is the point of a view from the position of the wheel?

 

May work better for triple screen set ups when you have them placed right in front of your wheel and other gear. Get a bit more windscreen space as less is taken by car interior

 

Can confirm that the standard views are generally quite handy for triples. I don't have much need to adjust my views except the pitch setting.

 

I wish the pitch setting worked in VR. Kegetys has a nice little app that allows it but for some reason it doesn't always work.

 

Dash Cam. One of the alternate views available by pressing F1

 

OK. That makes sense. I hang an iPhone behind my mirror while on track and that would be about the same perspective. Still, it is better for videos than for real time.

 

Dash cam view makes sense for driving with close screen(s) where you position your wheel where the virtual one would be.

 

This is the view I use in AC in VR because it pretty much matches the view I have from my car. There is a closer view I'm talking about which might be good for review videos but is too close for actual driving as far as I'm concerned.

 

Hmm yeah, I probably should have looked closer at that pic lol it looks like the regular view with the virtual wheel turned off... I had assumed those triple screen guys used dash cam but thinking about it I guess you would just use the regular view with the wheel and driver turned off. Maybe single screen users that run a screen close to the wheel might use it? Who knows. If you look at just 1 of the screens in that image the view is really close so maybe that is how dash cam looks on triples? I went from single screen to VR so have no experience with triple screens.

 

Press reset in the app where you can change seat position. I dont remember what its called atm.