• schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    Yeah, that´s a dead ringer use case, and for the price of a 3 monitor display, the frame might actually be competitive and also less of a tecnical headache.

    I loved it for flightsims, but there need to be more affordable controls you can use blindly. I even built a little button box with different kinds of switches to make my life easier.

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      19 hours ago

      That was the problem I had using vr for Elite: Dangerous and Star Wars: Squadrons. Awesome looking in vr, but impossible if you needed to use any keyboard controls.

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        18 hours ago

        ED was almost entirely workable with an X-Box controller. You could probably have a good time with two joysticks with a ton of buttons and a rudder pedal.

        But the damn problem is memorizing all the controls.

        Edit: Also you could use voice activated commands, but setting everything up was a like a hobby in itself.

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          18 hours ago

          Yeah, E:D was workable with a controller, but cumbersome.

          I’ve toyed with the idea of getting a HOTAS set-up, but now I’ve hard-mounted my wheel that’s a bit less feasible.

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            18 hours ago

            Hm. There are ways, I’m sure.

            I sat on a board and velcroed my joystick to it before I made a bracket under the seat to slide the board into…

            You can also recruit your pedals as inputs, if you’ve got 'em.