Oculus rift support

[Fltwrm]

Make it happen please

[HazelPine]

That would be awesome, but i think it would need a powerful graphics card and would lag too much for any use. I think the devs want to reach scope completion first before adding something that only a few people can use, because as far as i know the oculus rift os not available to everyone. But modders might tacke it someday.

[WWEdeadman]

I think I've seen jacksepticeye actually do that in a video already. Unity is oculus compatible, so it is easy to do.

[R0cketC0der]

That would be awesome, but i think it would need a powerful graphics card and would lag too much for any use. I think the devs want to reach scope completion first before adding something that only a few people can use, because as far as i know the oculus rift os not available to everyone. But modders might tacke it someday.

It's actually wouldn't cause very much lag on most gaming pcs. The bottleneck for performance in ksp is mostly CPU power, not GPU power.

Also the oculus dev kit is available for everyone.

[allmhuran]

This might be cool after cockpit internals get an overhaul, more working windows instead of looking through a tiny square or directly at a bulkhead, more functional instruments, etc. I suppose you could use it in normal (external) view, but it would feel really weird, since turning your head would have to change the position of the camera around the ship to be of much use, not just the orientation, and this is likely to induce rapid motion sickness.

[Pixel of Life]

In order to really take advantage of the Rift, command modules should have proper instruments so that you could actually fly the whole mission from IVA. Of course, one could use RasterPropMonitor, but such a feature in the stock game would be nice. What it also needs is first person view for EVA (There's a mod for this as well, but again, stock would be better).

E: And I should probably have read the post above this one lol

[Michaelo90]

I think that with the distances in this game, the only real use for the rift would probably be IVA and EVA, so I'm not sure if it's worth the effort for the devs, but at least someone will probably make a mod for it.

[Vanamonde]

This suggestion for the game's development has been moved to the Development & Suggestions subforum.

[Whackjob]

It would be a luxury to be able to toast both retinas evenly.

[SMILIE]

Seems like they are testing Oculus Rift

https://twitter.com/maxmaps/status/501791633718116353

[Red Iron Crown]

That would serve such a small, small portion of the player base. Though they implemented 6DOF controller support, so who knows? Squad having one to play with greatly increases the chances.

[comham]

Unity natively supports the rift so it wouldn't be very hard for the devs to implement.

[Athlonic]

OMG OMG OMG !

Please make Oculus rift support happening, I just can't imagine full IVA missions goodness with RMP mod installed.

My body n'DK2 are ready

[Holycowdude]

Please Devs make it happen :-) I think it will be an awesome experience. I'm expecting my DK2 end of this month.

Theres quite a buzz at the moment with the rift and any publicity for the Kerbal game can only be good to get even more people to know about it.

[Ted]

Just to clarify on Max's post, I believe that testing was for non-KSP projects. When at the office back in December '13 for KerbalKon, they had the OR then and were using it for non-KSP projects.

[rkman]

There's not much of a point to VR support unless the game has less than 20 milliseconds latency, which also means it should run at 50+ fps at all time.

http://oculusrift-blog.com/john-carmacks-message-of-latency/682/

http://www.twentymilliseconds.com/

[Lohan2008]

Oculus rift support < first world problem.

[dreadicon]

Is it sad that I want this feature above pretty much everything else? I dont care if it's a mod or native, long as it's responsive and has head tracking for IVA. Sure VAB/SPH/etc would be nice, but IVA + RasterProp and EVA First-person is where it's really at.

[Athlonic]

from an old thread here : http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/42216-oculus-rift-support?p=1057882&viewfull=1#post1057882

[Alshain]

I'd rather see TrackIR. More people could use it, and that is the only way I will ever fly in IVA mode.

[pizzaoverhead]

I'd rather see TrackIR. More people could use it, and that is the only way I will ever fly in IVA mode.

KerbTrack now has patches that support the Oculus Rift and TrackIR as well as FreeTrack and FaceTrack NoIR for webcam tracking.

[Alshain]

KerbTrack now has patches that support the Oculus Rift and TrackIR as well as FreeTrack and FaceTrack NoIR for webcam tracking.

I am aware of KerbTrack, but hardware support shouldn't be modded. It should be core.

[dreadicon]

I agree it should be core/stock, but we may not get a new release for months, and Oculus isn't officially released yet, so as a company I don't think it would be wise to add it NOW. Eventually? Oh heck yes! It's a MUST.

But for now those of us who have (or will have shortly) an Oculus should help test it to prove to devs it not only works, but is awesome!

Now we just need something like LeapMotion or some other hand tracking so we can reach out and operate our crafts.....