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8:35 I can explain how the vignette works. Motion sickness happens when your eyes and ears/balance are not perceiving motion in the exact same way. This makes the body thinks that you are hallucinating because of a poison and will make you nauseous in hopes of throwing up the poison. The vignette is serving as a point of reference for our eyes to perceive less motion. It's like the difference in viewing the speed of a car from the hood vs from the driver seat. SC can actually pull this effect off immersively if they have a different HUD for VR and also have the interior of the helmet show

One of your best pieces of work! Seriously great to have you back!

I also found Elite through VR and it BLEW. MY. MIND. I was happy with just running data missions because I was actually flying a space ship through the Milky Way galaxy. It ignited my love for space and Sci Fi. I still play Elite to this day for the experience that just cannot be matched by anything else on the market. SC in VR would be cool but it would need a massive rig to run it. In the infamous words of cmdr Exigeous - Elite on a monitor is a great space game... In VR, you are flying a FKNG SPACE SHIP!

2 things: use HCS voice packs and voice attack to avoid having to fumble with bindings forever. X Rebirth VR is a better game then NMS and Elite for space shenanigans.

This is excellent. Thoughtful, frank, fun. Great vid.

Hell yeah! CIG also need to take notes from the recently departed Echo Arena and of course Lone Echo, those games did zero gravity maneuvering so well I still get impressed after having played them for years. And as far as ship control goes, VTOL VR nailed cockpit controls, follow their lead with some small improvements where needed.

I love the idea of making all the buttons during flight diegetic, so you have to physically push the buttons with your VR controllers/VR hand. That sounds like so much fun, I wish Star Citizen was VR ready, the game is beautiful, but after playing for 2 years with my Quest 2, I can never go back to flatscreen gaming. It is dead to me.

Having had the chance to try Star Citizen in VR many, many years ago before it was removed (back when it was just the hangar module), seeing my constellation in VR blew my mind and has since been a feature which I'm waiting for to return. I only had the "Oculus Rift Dev Kit 1" at the time, so no motion controls and abysmal resolution, but despite that, although Star Citizen's ships already show off scale very well, the sheer scale of ships truly came to life for me that day I seen them in VR. Cannot wait for the day I get to check out the Reclaimer in VR, or even check out the enormous doors of the Hercules open up, I imagine it'll be like watching the nearby ferry open up for vehicles.

I'm really glad you went over all the obstacles with VR in general, and then the obstacles that CIG have to overcome to implement VR in SC. It wasn't just a "VR is cool i cant wait!" video, which was kind of what I was expecting during the first couple minutes haha. Good video sir.

Teleport works even in multi player - see games like "after the fall". You move but everyone else sees your character walk the intervening space. This works amazingly well, even in a very chaotic game, but they have done a brilliant job of programming it.

Dig, for dealing with all those keybinds in ED and SC, Voice Attack is pretty much mandatory for VR. Talk to your ship and tell it what to do. Pair that with a voice pack from HCS and youzz golden.

An idea for how they could get controls working is via having the buttons in the cockpit so you have to reach over to them or have a console people can open up where they can access a bunch of stuff there

The VR solution HAS to include a complete control redesign where you can pick up and manipulate items like in-game control panels.

How have I only just found this channel!? The production quality is so high, keep up the great work - instant subscribed :)

Came across this video today and I'm really impressed with your work. From going the extra mile to add all the little extra details in your edits, to your script and presentation and the gravity of your voice, you got yourself a new subscriber. Keep up the spectacular work and I hope you get the recognition you deserve.

This might be one of the best prospective VR vids I seen so far. Good shit man

I've been waiting for SC going VR for years now.. Hope they implement it soon

As others have said another way to control the game is to use a voice recognition app. I use voice attack for elite dangerous and it works really good. I use a game controller and mouse for steering the ship and moving around on foot but pretty much everything else is done with voice attack. I too am looking forward to star citizen in VR as I was blown away in elite dangerous in VR. It really puts you inside the game and your ship instead of looking at a flat screen of it. And your situational awareness in a dogfight is amazing. Thank you for this video and I am now subscribed to you channel.

anyone else get mad toonami vibes with his voice and the space aesthetic

I need this guy to read audiobooks to me.

Welcome back Dig. If CIG implements VR, they need to go all in! Not just the combat and exploration stuff, but the social aspect too (with full body tracking included). There are several social spaces perfect for VR: the Stormwal garden at Orison, the bar at New Babbage and the food stalls at Area 18. Only Hurston is lacking a really good space but the Central Business District may suit some. Now I just need to gather the funds for all the VR gear! Thanks for the great video Dig.

Dude you sound like Chali2na and I'm here for it. Star Citizen info is on point! Thanks for making these videos, super helpful!

somewhere between 3:40 - 4:10 it almost felt like you were dropping bars. Poetic my guy

Oh man, Dig. You had me rollin on the floor at 5:55. Great video! Glad you're back, all up in my sub feed. Lookin forward to more

Love the Stevie wonder searching for keys 😂

Damn. That was one of the dopest deep dives about a Star Citizen subject I've ever seen. Sick video man. Im gonna subscribe and check out the rest of your shit.

Your edit game leveled up. Great video! I cant wait for SCVR

I was about to add a comment about how would you tackle the keyboard thing, then you started talking about it at 4:50! But, here is a comment anyway so it can make the algo spark.

Yeah Elite revived my VR for a long time. It felt like putting on VR headset was actually me putting on my space helmet, and the moment it was on I could look around my freshly purchased space ship. Turn on the radio and head off to mine asteroids, or fight pirates. It's great fun. I played Star Citizen a bit as well, but just kept thinking... "This would be amazing... if it was in VR"

I play and stream SC in VR all the time, have highlights and setup tutorials on my channel, and have a troubleshooting discord to help people get things setup. If you want to know what the devs on the engine team are actually saying about VR in the future for SC, then holla at me and I'll give you everything you need to know. I've been doing VR with SC since 2017, I even have some scripts that will let Oculus Touch controllers give you full 6DoF control of your ship and walking around with them too while standing!! o7

Awesome video, editing and the times you are speaking in sync with the beat are REALLY satisfying! Great job!

I was insanely addicted to this game, it was truly remarkable in VR. Although the grind/boring gameplay finally got to me.

My dude, good looks on the Couch Citizen Config shoutout!! "You da real MVP!"

This video feels like hiphop at times given that your voice syncs with the music so well sometimes LOL great video, much enjoyed.

I watch a TON of content covering Star Citizen, & this is the first to explicitly cover this topic, & cover it well. Great vid!

there's also a movement where you character physically walks forward, while you stay at place, you see him walk and control him, but as soon as you stop, you teleport to his perspective.

Yes, I completed hours and hours of gameplay in Elite with my HTC Vive. It was amazing. Now it's just sitting collecting dust. I miss it.

Smoothest voice in the 'verse! How did I miss this video? To this day, VR is the only thing I miss about Elite since I jumped ship after the oddysey disaster. First time you try VR, it's like you've been experiencing the world while looking out through a letterbox and then you switch on those sweet full 360 degrees! SC is getting in the ballpark of being workable for VR. With vulkan, they should be able to put real quality sliders in for many of the visuals that limit frame rate the hardest. VR adds so much that reducing the quality is a fair tradeoff to get more acceptable frame rates

One of my best gaming experiences was Elite Dangerous in VR (using the Oculus Quest 2). Flying past a star in a huge ship is insane. I only hope I can experience something similar in Star Citizen one day.

Tbh, no pun intended but for Star Citizen VR, I Dig That!

Because of the limitations of VR, the best setup for me currently would be to put on the headset only in the pilot seat and play the rest of the game outside of VR. Although, to add the obligatory "SC won't release for 20 more years" joke, maybe we'll have a major breakthrough in movement in VR by the time the game releases, so who knows 😉

Great take. Your voice and vocal delivery is amazing!

First time finding your channel, but I dig the content and style of the video! Will check more! Covers most of the considerations for Star Citizen (hopefully) getting VR again. I got onto Star Citizen super early and remember playing its early VR mode on the Oculus DK1 (just 3DOF rotations, no 6DOF), but even as crude as it was, that feeling of being in a ship has made it hard to go back to non-VR space games ever since. In fact, now I can't because my joysticks are mounted to a cockpit far from my monitors cuz it's only for VR.

Ok so i think you are absolutely right with everything you said. For vr to be implemented into sc, it has to be in such a state, that you have full (i mean FULL) control over your character. So actually working and affordable treadmills, haptic and force feedback gloves and a really small, high fov, high resolution headsets. Then you would be able to press buttons in the cockpit, run around, etc. Thats where vr tech has to get to make it good for seamless crossplay with high quality games like sc

Best video ive seen on star citizen vr so far the humor is top notch 🤘

Bro.. Love your content! Found while looking at VR vids. Great production. Got a new subscriber!

Never would I ever torture myself like this

VKB Gladiator Evos are great for dual stick I use those. I have the left one with the canted stick and removed the forward/back spring and tightened the dryclutch on it so it acts like a throttle for accelerating but like a joystick for the left and right thrust since it recenters left/right but not forward/back. Works great with the predator mounts.

Awesome video dude! Always thought about Star citizen being great platform for VR. However I had not really thought through the control scheme and the necessity of having both a hotas and VR controller setup to make it really immersive.

the Stevie Wonder bit at 5:5 7 literally made me laugh out loud.. I cannot wait until the day I get to play SC on my meta Quest 3... keep up the great videos my man

Oh shit! I remember watching you from my ED days and boy did I miss that voice of yours! Glad to see you're still around!

He said "...like American medicine " lol preach

Missed your voice, mang! Glad to hear things are settling down in your world. This has been some of your best content to date! Can't wait to see what The Dig has for us next. o7

Dude, such quality and detail. Great video!!

I'm right there with you, my man - great video! In my experience with VR, if I can't use snap turning, I get on my feet and physically turn. It's less convenient but more immersive - and really helps fight VR sickness. I would probably get in and out of my flight chair if Star Citizen offered VR the way you describe. And in the coming years, I expect we'll get much more flexible haptics for making sitting/standing transitions more fluid and natural. We could even get automatically appearing / disappearing HOSAS controls that let you just walk to your seat, sit down, and fly.

Exquisite prose.❤ VR is a way of life captured here perfectly. 1st video, earned my sub

Finally someone in the Star Citizen corner is talking sense! Chris Roberts TAKE MY MONEY!...but only if you do it in VR

Yessir! I wanted to invest into VR when a buddy let me use his Vive unit. I did the same... sat in my ship smiling. Just smiling. It was incredible. IF SC can pull it off... oh baby. Great cuts dig, solid editing n audio perfection per usual. Killa gonna Kill. o7 Dig I see you watchin Futurama!

I really want VR for this game...only thing preventing me from buying it. Great video!

If you havent played any of the flight sim worlds in VRchat, i highly suggest you give it a go. They use tracked hands reasonably well, while still giving some great control.

Yea, as much as i love the idea of VR in SC, they will first have to make the game run buttery smooth on desktop PCs before they can even consider VR

Good to see you back on KZfaq! Great vid man. I remember talking to you in global about a month ago snd you said you had a new vid coming soon. Here it is! 😂 Keep it up dude

Holy darn, dude your script is FIRE. U held my attention And informed me about a bunch of things, props yo!

Great video! Long ago I popped my VR cherry with Elite Dangerous and the experience was glorious up until EDO.

o7 great video. Your stuff never disappoints, bravo!

Controller + mouse for on foot action, simple HOTAS for flying. This is the way.

VR teleporting could still work in Star Citizen if you add a shadow body that makes the movement ahead of you for everyone else to see. You would be at a disadvantage; your body could get hit while it is shadowing forwards, but it would be playable.

Hell yes, I got a Vive specifically to play Elite in VR, and Star Citizen would be the best thing ever in VR. One thing I can verify, space combat doesn't trigger motion sickness (at least for me), but in a ground vehicle, when you have a point of reference like the ground, oh boy its easy queasy.

In Star Citizen in every cockpit are physical buttons for everything the ship can do of the cockpit. So basicaly in VR you dont need any fancy equipment like a HOTAS, you can just press the Button in the Cockpit...

Imagine the rig you would need to run this in vr.

I like the morphing you did with the spectrum posts! I see you trying new tricks!

your music game has leveled up so much. Awesome video

Great vid! Killed it! I'd love to have Star Citizen in VR. I'd have to see if I still have an account lmao

I just want to walk around my big ships and fly space races in VR.

My SC VR Wishlist: 1. Full body model/tracking. No dumb floating hands. i want to see my gear and armor when i look down. 2. The vr headset needs to be wireless. unfortunately the options are limited on this one with Quest 2/3 being the only realistically affordable wireless vr headset on the market right now. and the graphical fidelity of the quests just aren't ready for star citizen yet. 3. Full smooth locomotion/turning. i cannot stand snappy locomotion like teleport and degree turning. (im sorry everyone who gets motion sickness but if we can only get one type of locomotion, it needs to be smooth for realism and immersion.) 4. realistic physics and interactions, such as weapon handling/reloading, throwing, item pick ups, etc. 5. individual finger tracking (for controllers that support this. some controllers have the ability to track if your fingers are touching parts of the controller to determine whether or not that finger is extended or curled) Also VR means you can streamline keybinds to more contextual situations. Like normally you have buttons dedicated to various equipment and weapons you are carrying. All that gets simplified when you can just look down, see a grenade attached to your chest, grab the grenade with the grab button. physically grab and pull the pin out and throw it. you dont need a keybind for inspecting objects because you literally can inspect any item by physically moving the object towards your face to inspect it. To customize weapons you can bring the weapon up like you are inspecting it and grabbing the attachments off of the weapon. emotes dont have to have keybinds or inner thoughts because you could actually perform the emote yourself. So the idea that SC would be hard to add vr support due to the many different keybinds is not a valid concern because many of the inputs/actions would come naturally as actual physical actions you perform, using just the grab button, the trigger, and the few other misc buttons that are available on the handtracking controllers. Same is applied with ships. the cockpit of ships already seem like they were designed with VR in mind as they actually have physical buttons that you can interact with, on screen as opposed to using keybinds. So manipulating the power triangle, shields, engaging/disengaging quantum drive, landing gears, etc. can all be done by reaching over and actually physically activating the button in VR space.

I played 200hrs of Elite Dangerous VR. Its by far the best experience I had. I had my friend in a wing and loaded into one of those multi-ship battles. His vette passed right in front of my cockpit and i let out a very very honest "holy shit".

my brain is dead and rotting so i never had to build a tolerance to VR i just ran around like a monkey

The best way to not have moion sickness is to walk in place on a mat with a WoVR device ( or other similar one ) attached to your feet.

I used VorpX to play Star Citizen in VR, until Easy Anti Cheat broke it. It worked fine, not the true 3D effect, but it worked. Looking around while flying a ship was magical, I used my Thrust Master HOTAS, and walking around while seated IRL was awesome, had to peak at the keyboard once in a while, I have a lighted RGB keyboard so I colored the keys for quick reference. I played this way for a few years, but since VorpX stopped working for it I hardly play SC much, spoiled I guess. I hope they allow VR support soon, It was amazing to stand on the landing pad of a station and look around at the scale of everything. Good video, keep up the good work, thanx.

That petting the bed 😂

Great video! Glad I found your channel!

As an old-school Wing Commander fan, I signed up for Star Citizen as soon as the Kickstarter went up. Got the Squadron 42 T-shirt and everything. I haven't been too excited about it since then, and I've almost given up on it. If they could get performance up enough and make it work for VR, it might be my new favorite game.

Dude you gave me a giggle :D Nice work ;)

This dudes comedy was gold! This was a great watch and also hilarious! XD

6:20 homie got the silk sheets, you already know the wave! gotta keep the hair nice when sleeping

The fact that the characters interact in realistic ways is so you can interact the same in VR. You will have option for touch controllers. You will hold guns and when out of the ship it will control like Pavlov or contractors VR and when you engage with buttons you literally touch them with your real hands. If you have hotas when you get in either put down and use hotas or if no hotas use touch to control the ships like no man's sky VR or VTOL VR. Single button reloads would be acceptable ala fallout VR ( this is most likely as 1 dev in spare time) but if they gone this far then should go whole hog and have manual reloads too and this and squadron 42 could indeed be a VR system seller. Star Citizen in VR will be wild.

Star Citizen in VR is impossible without "foveated rendering", "full body model presence like Contractors", and a full revamp of ships adding "Joysticks, levers, toggles, buttons, yokes...etc,". Without this is impossible.

VR needs large immersive worlds/universes like this. Somewhere in VR where we can just get totally lost for hours and hours on end. MMOs would be perfect for VR, but there's like 2...

Great video man. I already have a Quest 2 and can't wait to try it in SC but I would really rather wait till they have at least basic support built-in rather than going the VORPX/EAC workaround route :D

Even with a Hosas/Hotas setup I think I would prefer to have a passthrough window. I think I wouldn't mind having a passthrough window that appears when looking down.

Have you tried using a small desk fan? I've heard the small bit of air hitting you is enough to counter the motion sickness by giving you a sense of movement.

For the amount of buttons you could try the program Voice Commander. Regarding turning in shooter VR games I tend to rotate physically in my playspace to avoid turning with a stick.

gotta be honest. first I was sceptical, talking about VR at this point in the development. but, great video, bringing it into context with ED and VR games. thanks :)

Awesome video. Good to see you back!

“Anything below 60 fps can cause nausea, disorientation and discomfort like American medicine” 10:15 That shit was hilarious!! 😂

I cant imagine that a star citizen VR implementation would start of as anything but horrendously buggy, awkward and motion-sickening, but this video and the concept as a whole has me super excited nonetheless! Once it gets off the ground and everything is (eventually) fleshed out this has the potential to be *the* VR game

Don't know how you did it, my friend, but the sound is DANK on this one!

Great video! I've not dove into VR yet, but it's only a matter of time

The program reWASD can map buttons on multiple controllers to one 'virtual' controller so you can hold more than one controller or use a controller and a mouse, two VR controllers, etc. Also has macros and button combinations so you can hold one button for context before pressing another and it will be a different control than if pressed alone. Like FFXIV on a controller. Can even try two of those VR controllers from the ps3/4 era for under $10 and map them together. (This also means multiple people sitting around can crew one ship using multiple inputs.) Just a lot of options. And you might be over Elite but I recommend turning flight assist off and making one button toggle on button hold. So you're normally in flight assist off Newtonian physics but can hold the button whenever you want to reorient. Wish those games knew how to do more than combat and freight service though.