VR Tracking Sensitivity

[Tattersail]

I just recently made to transition to VR with HP Reverb and absolutely love it.  However coming from TrackIR I really miss the sensitivity profile settings when turning my head.  I have a fixed seat that I play from and turning my head is not as easy as it once was when I was younger. 

 

Does anyone know if it's possible to change the ratio of real head to virtual head turn?  A curve would be great but even 1.5x would be great. 

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

Pike, that will sent you to the toilet immediately. I wouldn't recommend that. Like a real pilot, your wingman is supposed to watch your six. You can hardly watch your dead six by the way, that's the same for everyone. Pancake players still enjoy their giraffe-snapview-necks that remind me more of an antichrist movie than a simulator.

 

But, there are several techniques you can use.

 

1) Lean the chair backwards a bit. It should not be more than 70°. Press chin to chest, look over left shoulder.

 

2) Lean upper body to the right hand side, turn your head left. Works without headrest, and in quite a few planes.

 

3) Most effective is to fly in a team. Join a clan/Jagdgeschwader if you have not yet, and enjoy teammates watching your back while you watch theirs, as well as the additional joy it brings flying together in a group.

 

Hope it helped a bit, good luck and have fun!

Edited October 19, 2019 by SCG_Fenris_Wolf

[Tattersail]

Thanks for the suggestions. My concern are RL physical limitations where even looking horizontally at a 90 deg angle or with much cervical extension is very challenging and painful. Not looking to do anything that could be considered unnatural. I'll try some of your suggestions and see if they can accommodate enough.

Edited October 20, 2019 by Pike

[RedeyeStorm]

It sounds you have more use of a swivel chair.

[TCW_Brzi_Joe]

- Migoto3d has 30 degrees turn on key-press, I use it with and without zoom option

- look fast to right side and press vr view reset (numpad 5), then turn left and you will see your 6. On end look forward and press reset again to switch back to normal.

[Goffik]

3 hours ago, [Pb]RedeyeStorm said:

It sounds you have more use of a swivel chair.

 

It sounds to me like this is probably the best option in your situation, combined with Fenris's tips. I have similar neck limitations due to an old injury, so to look behind I twist my chair 45 degrees and then turn my head 90 degrees. Works quite well.

 

Adjusting your headset movement ratio (if it's even possible) would indeed result in almost instant VR sickness, and the migoto3D mod's 30 degrees was not enough. Plus it meant using the keyboard, which I can't reliably do with a VR headset on. (No buttons left on HOTAS.)

[Sgt_Joch]

Rift 1 here. You can fairly easily scan the arc from 260 to 100 degrees.

 

For the rest, you can use the techniques RL pilots used, i.e. don't fly in a straight line, fly in a zig zag pattern that allows you to check your six.

[TCW_Brzi_Joe]

also this: 

 

[dburne]

5 hours ago, Sgt_Joch said:

Rift 1 here. You can fairly easily scan the arc from 260 to 100 degrees.

 

For the rest, you can use the techniques RL pilots used, i.e. don't fly in a straight line, fly in a zig zag pattern that allows you to check your six.

 

What? Simulate reality?

Say it ain't so...

[Tattersail]

I tried the setting the seat back and leaning while turning my head opposite and I must say  it worked remarkably well, gets the whole back in to the turn instead of just the neck like I was used to doing.  Thanks for the suggestion.  That also helped with reducing some motion sickness I was getting before as well, completed an entire mission without feeling like I was going to yak by the end

[dburne]

1 minute ago, Pike said:

I tried the setting the seat back and leaning while turning my head opposite and I must say  it worked remarkably well, gets the whole back in to the turn instead of just the neck like I was used to doing.  Thanks for the suggestion.  That also helped with reducing some motion sickness I was getting before as well, completed an entire mission without feeling like I was going to yak by the end

 

You'll build up resistance to the motion sickness over time.