Elite: Dangerous - Walking Around The Sidewinder (with Oculus Rift DK2)

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Published on January 24, 2015 12:56:46 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2HiKBUJrKY

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Elite: Dangerous (2014)

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Taking a look around the cockpit of the Sidewinder with the Oculus Rift..

Watch more Elite videos with this playlist: http://bit.ly/ExploringEliteDangerous

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If you enjoyed this, please check out these other videos:

► Walking Around my Ship: http://bit.ly/EliteDangerousOculusRift

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Oculus has produced a software development kit (SDK) to assist developers with integrating the Oculus Rift with their games. The SDK includes code, samples and documentation. Since its introduction, many developers have been working on integration.

Team Fortress 2 was the first game to add support for the Oculus Rift, and is currently available to play with the Oculus Rift dev kit by use of a command line option. The second title to support the Oculus Rift was the Oculus-only version of Museum of the Microstar which was released in April 2013. Half-Life 2 was the third, and Hawken is the fourth game to support the Rift; it was prominently featured in the Kickstarter, and Oculus used it to demo the Rift at the GDC.

Several titles are playable on the Rift via the free and open source Vireio Perception VR drivers. Games currently with full or partial support include Left 4 Dead, Skyrim, Portal 2, Half-Life 2, BioShock,[39] Star Citizen, and Elite: Dangerous.

Official Oculus Rift Site: https://www.oculus.com/dk2/
Official Elite: Dangerous Site: http://www.elitedangerous.com/

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Positional Tracking

Precise, low-latency positional tracking opens the door to entirely new interactive and gameplay opportunities. Great positional tracking is a key requirement for virtual reality; with it, the Rift can accurately map all of your real world head movements.

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The tracking abilities of the Rift, allow me to stand up and walk around the ships within Elite. No controllers are required for this, the DK2 camera simply monitors my position and moves the in-game avatar accordingly. This allows me to get out of my seat and walk around the bridge, and have a closer look at my ship and the galaxy outside.

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400 Billion Star Systems. Infinite Freedom. Blaze Your Own Trail
In the year 3300, across the vast expanse of an epic, full-scale recreation of our Milky Way, interstellar rivalries flare as galactic superpowers fight proxy wars.

Some may know you as an ally; others will call you a pirate, a bounty hunter, a smuggler, an explorer, an assassin, a hero... Fly alone or with friends, fight for a cause or go it alone; your actions change the galaxy around you in an ever unfolding story.

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Use these instructions to enable a second window for direct viewing of Elite when using the Oculus Rift. This will then mirror the game on your main monitor allowing other people to watch your game. This windows also displays an undistorted view of the game:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=43396

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Here is a frame rate performance test for the game using the Rift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scAYi2_OxJU

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Some reviews of Elite: Dangerous

Games Radar: http://www.gamesradar.com/elite-dangerous-review/
Eurogamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-12-22-elite-dangerous-review
Worth a Buy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmcHLv7bAjQ

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Don't forget to check the following communities for more information:

Elite: Dangerous on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/
Elite: Dangerous Official Forums: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/
Elite: Dangerous Wiki: http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite_Dangerous_Wiki

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