...Or is it just my eyesight?

I've had my Oculus Rift for almost 2 weeks now and I was initially impressed. The textures were blurry but I figured I had some fettlling to do. So I fettled..and I fettled. The textures were still blurry. This particularly bad in P3Dv4.3, in DCS it's nowhere near as bad. Throughout my searches I never seen any reference to blurred textures that showed any real concern. Could this be a P3D thing or maybe my eyes need some assistance.

6700K 16gig RAM GTX1070

I've reached the point where I've had to go back to the monitor and TIR for P3D and just use VR for DCS

This obviously isn't a screenshot but one I've PSed to give the impression of what I see. The cockpit is pretty good and all the text is readable

If there is a magic number to enter could someone please let me in on the secret. Or maybe it IS a trip to the opticians.

 

The thing about the Oculus and Vive that might not be apparent, is that if you need glasses in real life, you almost certainly need them in the headset as well.

Are other games blurry?

I was beginning to think so. I do wear glasses for reading and I use another pair with the focal length for my monitor. What I can't figure is what do I need for the Rift? I've tried both pairs if glasses neither of which make any difference.

Just now, tattiebogle said:

Are other games blurry?

Like I said, DCS isn't half as bad. That's not to say it couldn't be better mind you.

51 minutes ago, Ron Attwood said:

I was beginning to think so. I do wear glasses for reading and I use another pair with the focal length for my monitor. What I can't figure is what do I need for the Rift? I've tried both pairs if glasses neither of which make any difference.

I don't use glasses for VR and I need them for reading. I've not tried VR yet in P3D, but tried it in Aerofly FS 2 and even if the performance is excellent, it's a bit blurry anyway. What have improved my VR experience in AFS2 is to set the Render Scale Factor to its maximum value of 2.00, but I understand you could do that only if you have a powerfull graphics card, like the Nvidia GTX 1080 or so.

Cheers, Ed

 

Edited August 27, 20187 yr by edpatino

Been doing some more reading. It seems the focal length of the Rift is about 5'-6' so I'll toddle off to the opticians and get an eye test. (free for old folk)

The first time I tried the oculus I was very disappointed. It was a blurry mess and It seemed borderline unusable. Was this the great leap forward people were talking about? It was horrible.

Eventually I realized I needed my regular "driving" and walking-around in the world glasses, and once I used those..... Much better!

But.....

The glasses were squished against my nose in the headset, they were touching the Oculus lenses and possibly scratching them, they were fogging up, and the bridge of the glasses was hurting my nose.

Not good. Using the headset became a chore that I fairly quickly became less and less interested in.

Then I discovered custom made prescription lenses for the Rift. Eureka, I tried each and every one and rejected them all until finally I found the ones that made the Rift a pleasure for me. https://vroptician.com/

These lenses snap right into the Rift or Vive and now I could yank the headset on and off as easily as putting on a hat. No more dreading having to take it off for a second to go do something, because of all the fiddling involved with wedging my glasses back in there correctly. Just easily on and off.

Its an expense that many people avoid, but it made all the difference for me.

 

use oculus tray tool to set the profile for p3d (super sampling=2.0, asw mode=off).

I agree with kdfw_,

DCS has direct support for Pixel Density Override / SuperSampling in the VR tab but Prepar3d.exe does not. Download Oculus Tray Tool at the following:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3hpwymwbyegkten/OculusTrayTool_0.83.1.zip?dl=0

and set up a profile for Prepar3d.exe with SuperSampling at least at 1.4  - not sure about the ASW setting - I use 45fps ( all other entries at default except for path to executable ).

Be sure to have OTT up and running before you start P3D.

 

I use the 4K Pimax in P3Dv4.3 and find the vision equivalent to that viewed in DCS or Aerofly FS. Unfortunately if using Flyinside software in P3D the resolution is reduced significantly compared to P3D native VR. 

I have good performance in 4.3 Native VR and the 4K Pimax headgear has little to no screen door effect.

There is blurriness in the distance when looking out the window of the aircraft which is disappointing when comparing this to my 65in 4K TV but I cannot go back. VR is the way to SIM fly.

Hopefully the 8K headgear will help a little more in the near future.

IM

Crikey! Loads of input.

@HiFlyer. I've already bookmarked that site on account of a post you made elsewhere. 👍 I've read that the focal length of the Rift is 5'-6', would you agree with that? I'd like to go the the optician with some kind of info for him.

@kdfw_ and whitav8. I have the OTT and my current setting are 2.0.. Off.. Normal.. WMI. I've tried various SS settings, ASW off/Auto and 45fps all with the same result!

@Iceman. I am prepared to go to some lengths to get the best result I can but I have to draw the line at buying every make of VR to get it.  But thanks for your input, I appreciate it.

Strangely enough, I don't consider the infamous 'screendoor' effect to be all that intrusive. Perhaps it's because I have bigger fish to fry.

 

 

2 hours ago, Ron Attwood said:

I've read that the focal length of the Rift is 5'-6', would you agree with that?

Yes.

It's interesting in many ways. The focal length of the headset is fixed, so it's a reason why youngsters get more nauseous looking at close in objects as the vergence and focus become so diverged and it fries their brains. On us old gits we can't focus so close, need reading glasses and therefore don't suffer so much. Bingo!

I read that Oculus' development Half Dome prototype with variable focus driven by eye tracking is the way forward. it looks at what you are looking at and adjusts the focus to match the distance of the object in your view. Very clever. The REAL clever bit is when they perfect it and then realise they can feed in individual eye prescriptions and change the view to make the device compensate for most eye problems. Glasses without glasses as it were. Can't wait!

1 minute ago, MarkJHarris said:

On us old gits

49? Pfft.