It’s so funny how different the opinions of two people can be.

You say:
“VR will kill complex cockpit and chart handling.”

I think it will be exactly the opposite. Especially for people who don’t particularly like wasting paper (and contributing to the destruction of the planet) by printing hundreds of charts.

I am one of those people who doesn’t mindlessly print charts for every flight, and for this purpose I think VR will be very practical, because you can populate those charts around the cockpit as you see fit.

Check out this vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXnu39EzmzY

Cheers.

Woah, it’s true, I just tried it… crazy.

This is not a bug.

https://gateway.x-plane.com/scenery/page/FAOR

No one has placed a terminal there with WED yet.

Please check out on Johannesburg international FAOR there’s no airport building
Jus a slab of concrete

A pig like that, you don’t eat all at once!

(Sorry, that’s from another joke.)

I am _not_ holding my breath for “3-d TV” (e.g. stereoscopic flat screens). I actually got the sim running briefly with NVidia’s 120 hz shutter-glasses 3-d, and what I found is that while it was really “oh wow” for about 5 minutes, it was pretty unusable as a product.

It’s hard to use your 3-d budget sanely in a free-form 3-d engine…you can’t have too much depth of 3-d because of eye strain, and the right 3-d depth for one part of the scene makes other parts not work well.

“But we’re going to be in a situation where we can’t ignore VR and we can’t ignore not-VR.” In German we call this: “Eierlegende Wollmilchsau” – A pig you’ll have eggs, wool, milk and pork meat from:
https://www.talentsoft.careers/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/animal.jpg

You would call it a jack of all trades.

My fear is that this will lead to a software that basically can do everything – but nothing really great. This is what happened to many “one-fits-all-solutions”.

But hey, if you can put both under one hood without hampering each other, it’s gonna be fine with me anyway. I just think that this will be very challenging by having severe effects on the user interface, the need of dual cockpit designs for conventional complex handling and a more simplified version for VR use, etc…

And this challenge my eat up a lot of time and effort slowing down X-Plane’s core development because the VR job will not be done by only creating performance miracles.

Regards,
Marc

Will VR technology benefit the sim running on 3D screens? Would be nice to use the sim with a 55″ 3D OLED TV with stereoscopic 3D.

Why would we not do both? The performance tuning we do to make VR fluid is almost certainly useful to people not using an HMD. The stereoscopic render tech can be recycled into dual monitor (something new to v11, useful for home cockpits) and internal speed-up in the lighting code.

I agree that VR isn’t going to eat everything. But we’re going to be in a situation where we can’t ignore VR and we can’t ignore not-VR.