You should start a new game so you get the control tutorial. You do get better, and it’s awesome. :)
The flight controls though can be a pain and take some extra getting used to. They work best when you realise your hands don’t need to align to the cockpit controls, and you can rest your stick hand on your leg and pivot it from there.
jpinard
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Wonderful advice. Thanks!
I mean, sure, if you’re only buying it for Elite, it’ll be a waste of money. But I can’t imagine playing Elite without VR these days. some games are better suited for touch controls than others, and at least for me I much prefer not to have touch controls in a cockpit sim. Maybe one day when we have perfect hand tracking, but not for now. HOTASes have actual physical buttons you can press with your hands.
I can’t see doing Elite or any other sim without a full-on HOTAS. Kinda the cost of doing business.
It was written for keyboard only as I recall from the 80s :)
I go away for a day and everyone’s bashing my favourite space sim! Elite is definitely not for everyone, but I’ve not put 500 hours into it since first release because there’s nothing to do. Not that it’s my job to convince anyone, I’ve yet to try it in VR, but anything that increases immersion sounds amazing. I’m still waiting for my USB 3 / Ethernet dongle to arrive so I can do Steam VR properly. It’s been sitting in a post office sorting centre for over a week now, sigh.
No Man’s Sky sounds much improved by VR though, and fortunately that’s in my library so woo! Will my laptop run it in VR though? I’m not hopeful.
The last few days I’ve been playing Down the Rabbit Hole, which I’d describe as a third-person exploration and puzzle game, taken to the next level by its brilliant use of VR.
I’ve had to stop playing Beat Saber temporarily because my hands get too sweaty to hold the controllers properly! But I have some grips coming (sometime, at some point, maybe!), looking forward to those arriving.
Eilte works brilliantly with mouse and keyboard. It takes a while to master it, admittedly, but I can pull off some gnarly maneuvers quite happily. Not sure I’d say the same about a proper flight sim though, at least not without a very good visual memory of keyboard shortcuts.
jpinard
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I can’t wait to hear your experience of it in VR!
robc04
5787
You didn’t stop before you at least beat some of my scores :-)
That moment is now a lot closer, because the ethernet thing was actually in my PO Box. Thanks Australia Post tracking for being completely inaccurate.
Well, there are priorities. ;)
It seems the AppLab thingie is finally working, they had new entries for the past 3 days
https://applabdb.com/new
https://ol.reddit.com/r/applab/new/
Ok, so tell me if I have this right. On my laptop I have one functioning USB 3.0 port, and one USB 2.0 port, all other ports are non-functional.
So to use the Link cable, I need to connect the Quest to the USB 3.0 port (1 Gbps), and use the USB Ethernet adaptor in the USB 2.0 port (100 Mbps) so I get functional internet (because this doesn’t really make any difference to the VR experience). However, if I wanted to use wireless streaming, I’d connect the laptop to the router using the USB Ethernet adaptor on USB 3.0 (to get the fastest speed to the router), and then connect the Quest over WiFi 6 on my wifi extender. At least, those are the best options available to me.
Does that sound right or am I overlooking something? (other than the fact I could use WiFi 6 on the extender to connect the laptop when I’m using the Link cable, so I didn’t really need the Ethernet dongle after all, but I’m not listening to that, lalala)
It sounds right.
Well, the only thing missing is the ‘crossing fingers’ part because oculus detection of usb is super finicky.
I plugged it in once already and it detected it, I got Virtual Desktop working and got into Steam, but the test results told me off for not having a wired internet connection, but for Link streaming from Steam on the laptop it shouldn’t really matter. Of course the simple answer is to go and test it, which I’ll do right now.
Maybe it gets confused with the usb adapter for the ethernet.
I use 5Ghz ac wireless (PC and headset) for Virtual Desktop and it’s fine, but I am about 2m from the router.
Andon
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I’m having great experience with Virtual Desktop stream to my 5G wifi router. I don’t get 90 FPS, but everything is playable without any stuttering. I’m just about set the Link Cable aside and use it only for charging occasionally.
I do miss the ability to pin a window using the Link, it seems a bizarre oversight for VD given it’s literally called the same thing as the Oculus functionality.
I just can’t seem to get my Quest to work with Steam Link. At first it took several attempts at plugging it in / unplugging it / plugging it back in before I actually got it working, as it kept reverting back to the standard home page. When it finally worked, and I got the Link UI up, I opened Virtual Desktop no trouble, but then several attempts at launching Steam VR all ended in failure. It would throw up errors on the monitor that the Oculus display had been lost, or that there was an unexpected problem, and I’d have to unplug / replug the Link cable. At one point I got into a strange, gridded white landscape, but nothing actually appeared. Then I figured I’d try launching Elite directly from Steam on Virtual Desktop, and after 60 seconds of nothing it threw up a fatal exception error I’d never seen before.
I get the feeling this is mainly a software issue, possibly some dramas with my laptop, I’ve no idea, but it’s frustrating. I will try wireless tomorrow and see if that works instead. Everyone seems to have zero problem getting this to work except me. I wonder if my USB cable isn’t compatible? It’s a USB 3.0 cable plugged into a USB 3.0 port, but I remember some reddit thread suggesting a certain percent of cables just don’t work at all.
I’m confused. Steam Link or Oculus Link? Why are you opening Virtual Desktop in the Link? The whole point of Virtual Desktop (for gaming) is you don’t need the Link.
I’ve mostly stopped using the Link, but when I was using it I did notice that it was not a good idea to unplug the cable. It wouldn’t reconnect unless I restarted the computer. So I would definitely recommend leaving it plugged in while fiddling about with other settings to rule out that issue. I would also recommend trying other cables - it is supposed to be pretty finicky about them.
Take your level of confusion, double it, then double it again, maybe a third time, and that’s about half as confused as I am.
I thought you accessed Steam VR (and other VR games on Steam) by plugging in the Link cable, where it brings up the Link UI, where you can select Virtual Desktop so you can bring up Steam, and then launching whatever app from there? If that is not the case, then I’m back to square one. Is there a good guide, because I’ve been trying to follow random YouTube dudes (and the occasional bit of actual writing) and obviously getting myself hellishly confused.
