FOV: Field of View. Optimal/real settings?

24 Inch Monitor. 50 Default fov, but i slightly adjust it or the Driver Position distance for almost every car

 

50 here

 

Fov 54

 

29 degrees on one 27 inch screen about 30 inches from my face.
I use TrackIR5 when racing so that helps to see whats around, but after a long session it may make me uncomfortable and dizzy, I suppose I suffer from light motion sickness.
When you get use to your optimal FOV, its hard to go back without it feeling like youre driving from the backseat.

If Oculus Rift customer released version doesnt do it for me, I'll be getting triples and stick to my 1:1 FOV.

 

I use a TrackIR4 too, so with a vertical FOV of 36degrees (60 degrees horizontal FOV) it's quite OK.. and it's also impossible to me to play with a vertical FOV higher than 40 degrees....

by the way my monitor is a 27"

 

32 here; my nonitor is a 24" and it's positioned around 60-70 cm from the seat.
Track IR helps to see around.

 

I'm probably going to get either frowns or newbie sniggers with this but I have mine set to 68° on a 22" monitor about 24" from my face and the seat fully forward. To me, that's reflective of what I can see sitting in the car including my peripheral vision. Setting it "correctly" would be like me driving with blinkers on and not being able to move my head, this doesn't happen in real life and I suspect it would be strongly discouraged by the local constabulary.

Obviously, a cure for this is 3 screens but I only have two and the second is only really for side apps/reference when painting or working etc.

I will be buying an Oculus Rift as soon as commercially available (or TBH, I'd throw money at the Crystal Cove version right now if they released a Dev Kit of it) and then my issue will be solved, I will be inside the car completely.

 

How do I adjust my FOV in triple screen? The option is greyed out at 45 in my settings and the on board cam slider does nothing in triple screen.

 

Mine is greyed out as well. I am guessing you have to use the triple screen app in AC perhaps?

I set mine before when the triple screen rendering was messed up so I was using single screen render at the time.

 

I have it at about 48 on a single screen, it's still quite a bit too high (sounds like correct is maybe 30; I thought it was horizontal FOV which calculates to 42) but it's a compromise so I can see enough. Would still like to have more like a 100 degree FOV but I can't really bring the monitor closer.

 

41° FOV on 24" monitor (0.6 m from eyes).

 

25 FOV btw

Used FOV calculator

 

At 5' 9" this is what I'd expect to see if I were looking out the windshield onto the track's surface. This is what I use to drive the car. It's 40 degrees in my case. I can touch that virtual steering wheel.

 

Mine, s greyed out too, but im guessing once you've done the measurements in tripple screen app /distance/angle/monitor size/ ac provides you with the correct fov .

 

36 FOV on 24 inch single screen

 

fov 37 on 47" TV

 

32° (vertical FOV) on a 23 inch monitor standing 0,5 m (20 inches) from my eyes.
I want triples badly though

 

The only problem with low FOV is exactly that - speed feeling is gone and i have problem driving. Breaking too late as i think im driving 50km/h instead of 150km/h. Might be a thing to get used to, but its hard for me to loose the sense of speed.

Using 54, and sometimes a bit higher.