Absolutely agree with you guys. It's also why you can hit pause, move your head where you want it, and when you then hit "retry" from the pause menu it updates your seating position. Nothing to do with the countdown as far as I can tell.
I went to that option and it was turned on. Might be this what was interfering because it has significantly improved after turning it off. I had moved the monitor to the side of the wheel and forgot about that option. thank you!
You still end up too close to the steering wheel and a bit to low.
Absolutely not.
I have a wide nose bridge too, and I find that the pupillary distance of the lenses is not as critical as you might think. I open the LPD until I can't feel the headset on my nose, even though the adjustment tool says it's wide (but still showing blue circles) and I don't notice any drop in picture clarity. The other thing you can try is adjusting the top band such that it sits higher on your head.
It’s still the wrong position. These cars have seats in certain positions and VR is supposed to emulate you sitting in them not crouching in front of them.
I’m glad that someone got some use from the article. I forgot to launch my PC yesterday, and started a race without the haptics. It was such a weird experience in VR; I thought my wheelbase was broken. I knew something was missing but it took a few seconds to work out what was wrong. Once you have haptic feedback on your rig you’ll wonder how you ever experienced proper immersion without it.
Yeah, unfortunately it's hard to race without the hud. Having the radar available, even though it's pretty bad, is helpful in traffic at the start of races. Also, on races like the Le Mans race for the GT Cup last week, it's critical to know tire conditions, access the weather radar, and be able to adjust brake balance + TCS on the fly. When I'm doing short races offline or with a friend I turn off the HUD, but have to leave it on most other times for netplay.
Does it show the same banner indicator that you get when racing on monitor? I honestly can't remember offhand, feel like it doesn't.
No, it doesn't.
There are plenty of gaps where there are no marshals waving flags or digital signs, so you can be under yellow flags without any way of knowing. For example, I had this myself earlier in Manufacturers. The yellow flags were out during the run down to turn 1 but there was nothing I could see in VR until I was already committed to the turn.
Exactly. I am used to looking for yellow flags for real - I raced roughly twice a week for over ten years and not once did I ever overtake under a yellow. Not once. Then again, in real life, if you pass someone whilst taking avoiding action, you certainly don't get penalised. During the last week or so of having progressed to 'penalty' races, I have been stung three times and I am 99% sure there was not a flag or LED panel to be seen during any of those events. In fact, I was simply taking avoiding action so however you look at it, no flags at that point, or overtaking to avoid a collision because one cannot brake from 100mph+ in one second, the GT7 penalty system needs refining and the HUD needs a flag alert ...in the same way that it needs a pit-board in a user-definable area of the screen.
Welcome to the soon-to-be-converted 😎. Do yourself a favour and go easy for the first week or two else you’ll have uncomfortable balance problems that will make you doubt your purchase. Better to go easy …unlike what I did! With regards to elevation changes, you have a few treats to come, some of which you definitely need your VR legs for first. But the most enlightening experience is going round the Nordschliefe for the first time in VR - there are bends that you might previously have wondered how you could hold so much speed through, and others that throw you wide no matter how much you brake. Now, with a full sense of the massive elevation changes throughout the Nordschliefe, it’ll suddenly all make sense 👍I got myself the PSVR2 yesterday and tried it out. Wow!
Had a look around the showroom first, everything just looks like its there in front of you. Very cool!
Tried out a time trial and I've seen the suggestions to not go to a race car first and ease in a bit instead. So I took a mini cooper. My brother had one years ago, so I thought that would be fun to compare (it's amazing). Then I chose a nice short track, Brands Hatch Indy. What was I thinking!
The sense of actual movement is incredible and the elevation change... well I could clearly feel it dropping through paddock hill bend even though I was very slow! I did a single seater experience day there years ago, and it is so much like the real thing.
Had to take a break after a few laps, didn't exactly get motion sickness, but I got the feeling it might come on if I kept it up too long. Did take a while for that to settle down.
Had to have an actual race later on though, just to check it out, and I obviously can't help myself so I went for Spa in an NSX. Eau Rouge is everything it should be (scary as hell) and who knew there was so much elevation change on the back not-very-straight? 😁
Another break, then some dailies in flat mode, and then a VR go on the Tsukuba time trial. I thought that circuit was entirely flat, turns out it's not!
Absolutely loving it, but I can see it's going to take a while to get the hang of it for longer races. Just spotting the markers and judging the speed is so so different.
