Elite Dangerous vr

How much money do you want to pay?
Do you have a beefy PC that can run VR? - Elite is a very taxing game in VR.

Choices right now are:
Oculus Quest 2
Valve Index
HP Reverb G2
Vive Pro 2

The Quest 2 is the cheapest - less than half the price of the next cheapest (G2), but requires a Facebook account to use, plus you may need some accessories to make it comfortable.
 
I actually managed to get it (sort of) working with my 1050ti equipped laptop and Samsung s8 in the gear vr headset using RiftCat. At minimum settings it was just about at a playable framerate but the resolution available left text barely legible.
I now have a desktop machine with an i5-11400, much faster ram and storage and intend to get a 3070 or 3080, though a may split the difference with a 3070ti.
My biggest concern is probably text legibility, followed by sde.
 
Have you played vr before? If not I'd suggest go quest 2 to get you started. It's relatively cheap and an easy introduction, whilst still being good quality. And you may opt to keep it even if you do upgrade due to it's standalone capabilities.

Then it's down to money. If i had enough then the new vive pro 2 looks really impressive.
 
Andythe Random said:
My biggest concern is probably text legibility, followed by sde.
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I'm playing on a quest 2 and sde isn't going to bother you. Text can look pretty sharp as well if you have the resolution up. It can be quite demanding though. For some reason it looks better for me using virtual desktop than oculus link, but link is a little smoother.
 
Be warned that the current Odyssey update for Elite has a lot of issues for VR and the anything on foot is via a projected 2d screen, you'll be okay if running the Horizons client though.
 
I love the idea of this but I'm pretty sure if I tried this game I'd be violently ill. Just the walking around in Onward had me out of action in 15 minutes so I can imagine dogfights among the stars would not go well.
 
Gorbash12346 said:
I love the idea of this but I'm pretty sure if I tried this game I'd be violently ill. Just the walking around in Onward had me out of action in 15 minutes so I can imagine dogfights among the stars would not go well.
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It's not so bad in Elite as you have the cockpit as a frame of reference.
 
Dano said:
Be warned that the current Odyssey update for Elite has a lot of issues for VR and the anything on foot is via a projected 2d screen, you'll be okay if running the Horizons client though.
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I thought odyssey didn't support vr at all, are you saying it drops to a 2d screen when you leave a ship or atv?
 
Definitely recommend the Quest 2; you can play wirelessly with your PC and hook up to a socket if you need juice while you play.
 
the LCD black level performance in the Vive Pro 2 is as good as it gets before needing OLED useful to know if you're into space sims

Elite Dangerous Odyssey as I understand it supports VR still for ship and surface vehicle cockpits, then as other have said you have this ugly compromise solution for on foot gameplay... better than nothing but far from ideal. The bigger problem with Odyssey as I understand it is performance since VR with low frame rates is not a good experience so you'll see many VR players going back to Horizons until Frontier get their act together. What's more than a little frustrating is Frontier were told all of this during the open alpha/beta phases and they either didn't bother to look into it or just discounted it all together which basically confirms the whole exercise was just for PR, marketing and early sales so make of that what you will.
 
So other than fixes that's it for Elite VR now, anybody want a lifetime pass account with a triple elite commander and 7 billion or so credits? :p :(
 
new VR cmdrs can still run the Horizons cockpit VR experience, but the longer standing VR users that have consumed that content already really got shafted by Frontier's decisions this time around.

Basically Odyssey is not for VR users don't buy it and if you're a Lifetime Expansion Pass owner well they've already recorded those profits years ago and used your money to change offices and develop new games. Lets hope they reconsider in a years time... Personally I think Frontier desperately want to break from their LEP model and commitment to PC users because there is no growth for the shareholders there its just sunk development costs unless they bring in new players at the same time.
 
Only until they roll the updates into Horizons at the end of the year at which point all the performance issues are going to hit that too, elite is an arx cosmetics cash grab now, minimum viable product and throwing community managers to the wolves in an attempt to appease the masses when the inevitable faeces hit the fan, a few bug fixes but otherwise the team is mainly working on more skins that can be sold for arx. 100 people working on odyssey for two years and more and all they managed was to downgrade what was already there and tack on a poor fps module, it's either laugh or cry lmao :D
 
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