![]() The addition of head tracking allows the player to look all around them, which doesn’t just make the whole experience feel more real, it also provides a dogfighting edge. This is in part due to the game’s excellent HUD.Įlite: Dangerous is also the only game where I felt VR might actually give the player an advantage in a fight. ![]() The cockpit interiors actually look 3D, all the objects feel solid and tangible. I can safely say that Elite: Dangerous is the only VR experience where I have actually been amazed at how it brings you into the game as the pilot. With a decent Hands-on Throttle-and-Stick (HOTAS) setup and the use of voice commands with a tool such as Voice Attack, the experience only gets better. Unlike so many games that require the player to be wandering around, there’s a one-to-one spatial transition. The real life player is (most likely) sat at a desk, while the avatar of the player is sitting down inside the ship. It works so well because both player and player avatar are sitting down. If there’s one genre that seems as if it can really benefit from VR, it’s space sims. VR Game Manager isn’t fancy but it does the job. That neatly solved the monitor problem, meaning I could actually get in the game with no problem, get into the video settings, and set the Rift as active. This application comes with some pre-defined settings for Elite: Dangerous, and once you browse to the game’s executable you can add it to the manger and launch the game from there. Most guides assume you only have one and connecting the Rift would make it the second monitor.Īfter messing about in the video display options, and moving monitor alignments so as not to lose the mouse pointer with the extended desktop mode enabled, I hit the Internet again to see if there was an easier solution. That’s quite a bit of jiggery pokery to get it working, though I don’t think it really helped having a set up with two monitors already connected to the PC. I spent a good two hours attempting to make the game play nicely with the Rift. ![]() A screenshots can’t actually convey how well it works in the DK2 but here’s one anyway.įrontier has added native Oculus Rift support but that doesn’t mean it’s a doddle to actually get Elite: Dangerous working with VR.
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