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Why is the left arm curved like that? 🫤

Is this Matt Wagner? sure sounds like him lol

the other major problem with track ir is its an infrared camera which means if you have an infrared light source like a window or lightbulb behind you it just looses all tracking. this is espeshily problimatic becasue i live in alaska where we dont get that much sun and we we do i like to open the window. but if i need to use track ir i have to use blackout blinds because the camera cannont reject the light coming in the window at all. i've also had problems with the tracked position drifting if you use "True" mode which calibrates the software to account for head size and where the clip is placed, so i turned that off, but with true mode off, now when you turn you head left it also zooms in and when you turn right it zooms out. i just dont recomend track ir or any 3 point ir camera based setup. start with a webcam or phone app based face tracking to try it out. and then get somthing with either multi point tracking using multipule cameras like vr or Tobii

this seems like red orchestra banged izonso

How did you set up/ where did you find the controls template pages at 21:31

Nice video! I am just getting back into DCS after failing to make much progress back in 2020-ish due to wanting to fly in VR but my PC just wasn't up to the task back then. I've now got a 6800 XT GPU + 5900X CPU which gets the job done. Flying in VR with HOTAS and rudder pedals *chef's kiss*. Regarding OpenKneeboard, it's been a great help for me and can't recommend it enough for VR pilots. I just wanted to mention the Wacom Intuos Small tablet has (4) built-in buttons that can be used to cycle through the pages. This allows you to manage the kneeboard info with just one hand. The Wacom tablet probably costs a tad more, but IMHO it's worth it for the buttons. I got my wired Intuos Small from the Amazon Warehouse for ~$25 and it's a game changer, even as a new pilot. Thanks again, and happy flying!

I have the Oculus VR set and Track IR, I prefer the Track IR. The VR is cool, but there's just too many things wrong with it, cockpit interaction being the most difficult. And I got the Thrustmaster throttle, stick and pedal bundle for $180. I would consider that bottom level minimum for DCS. I have another stick with the twist Z axis for controlling the rudders, just isn't there. But the Thrustmaster pedals are the slider type, which is horrible for fine control. I am upgrading to metal push/pull type to mimic what aircraft actually use. And my hard drive is almost maxed. With all the other flight sims I have there's just no room left. I have a 2 TB on order. But I found a way to transfer the maps to a separate disk so it doesn't affect the main drive. Be trying that too.

move the pc to the side, ill have more legroom.

Crusty stick… that was the problem I had with rudder peddles. Anything dirt gets into… bad

Awesome, really a great game ;)

AM I FRIGGEN TRIPPEN OR WAT DA FAK IS THAT CAMERA

I'm thirsty now lol

Vet to vet, ty brother for your service

Great point about the tension, I have tons of recordings with stand out moments. It really is worth every single dollar. Recording/rendering tip: increase your bitrate to 40-50,000 :)

enjoyed watching your review

Fantastic! Hope there are more reviews soon

great review! :D

awesome vid bud! keep up the great work!

played for years just with gamepad and trackir, never see need for all that hardware waist of money and space, even ww2 sims like GB where you need better precision (extended stick vs gamepads mushrom) are not a ig problem... ppl pay too mutch effort to extra stuff that is not needed. More ppl would play this type of games if they know they can be no les competitive even online just with simple stuff that is used in any other game they have.

Whats up with your camera? It feels like im on an acid trip or something

Thanks for doing video

For OpenTrack I used to use a PS3Eye camera with the red+blue film from 3d glasses layered over the lens to block visible light, and IR LEDs on a baseball cap wired to a USB cable with a few resistors. The cameras were dirt cheap but would push 120fps, so no latency. The whole setup cost 25 bucks, in the before times.

Excellent choice of rudders; I love mine too. Also agree on stick extension for more precision and control as well as less resistance to movement.

I use the tablet-mi-lcd-writing-13.5 (search that, so its easy to find). I'd prefer a smaller one but this one works great too

Nice video! Spinning character... Valheim?

I recommend you ditch your amd gpu due to dlss coming in. Amd has been quite disappointing anyways for the past few years in the gpu market. Also i dont recommend table mounts. A dedicated monstertech chair is much better than your setup

What aircraft is that, and did it come default with that GPS unit on the dash? That's really useful and I thought there was a way for different aircraft to have a gps unit in the cockpit

one thing a lot don't think about (even I, a former helo pilot) those office chairs are bad with rudder pedals-- they can cause pretty bad cramps after long time use) something to do with Newton's 3rd law - Right pedal - Right chair swing

I don't know if you reviewed this in the debrief, but if I had to guess you were firing the rockets around 400-900 FT above the ground. A good rule of thumb is 27 ft per hPa or 2.7 ft per 0.1 hPa. ( about 1000 ft per 1 inHg or 100 per 0.1 inhg and 10 per 0.01 inhg) Setting the QFE on the ground then using it as reference to set the altimeter to the target elevation is the way I usually do it, I also have no idea if the Temperature actually effects the altimeter readout in dcs but that's in extreme temperatures so it shouldn't be an issue.

Awesomeness! 🔥 🔥 🔥

They make stiffer springs for the stick with extensions (actually I may have an extra...). Be very careful with your throttle powering it on and off and do not plug it into a USB 3.0. Lot's of them are bricking due to over voltage. I modified mine with a buck converter that drops the voltage down. Former AF crew chief... Yep, grease pencils great for simming.

and then there is me...who spend all his budget for as much as dcs modules i can buy and a good hotas... and yeah i can play ez whitout trackIR and oculus ... offcourse there is no comparsion whit my setup ( high-end pc) and the vid set up or other ... the most tricky thing whitout trackIR or VR is look around whitout leave the hand on the stick .... my solution was easy ... lots of hotas stick have analog pads ... mine have 1 on the left side of the stick ( so it can be used whit the right thumb) and 2 on the throttle ... i simply binded the analog pad of the stick on the X-Y axis of the mouse and voila u can look freely around while doing your things...if u want i can even put the view transpose by pressing the pad whit my hotas ... but i left the transpose to the mouse . p.s. the other 2 pads are dedicated to TDC usually but depend what im flying p.p.s. your pc struggle whit FPS ? put all the shadows options OFF ... p.p.p.s the Cannon comment on disk space is GOLD ... defacto i need to swap some games i dont play anymore like arma3 and all its modules ...

Just chiming in to say I love my Tobii. No perceived latency, does an excellent job with tracking my head and eyes without any issue.

Awesome setup. Glad to see VR being leveraged too. And that you play H3VR.

I used TrackIR for many years. It works really well, but it is really annoying to use. That is the best way I can describe it. I always hated to use a baseball cap with those reflectors, I don't think the IR blasters are strong enough to affect your eyes too much, the IR LEDs they use are fairly low powered. You can also adjust the IR strength in the application. I upgraded to that clip, hated that thing as well. I don't use headset when flying, I have a nice surround sound system which I enjoy using instead so having to strap something on my head was a huge annoyance. I tried the free head tracking solutions, with various webcams and what not, but just couldn't get them to work as well as TrackIR does so was kinda stuck with it.. I recently bought the Tobii Eyetracker thing when it was on sale, 20-25% off or something like that. It's the first head tracking solution I have been happy with other than TrackIR, and it doesn't require you to wear anything! A huge plus! But it's far from perfect, it has its own annoyances. The biggest annoyance is to set it up. Initial setup is super easy, which gets it up and running. But then dialing it in for head tracking in game is a bit fiddly. The Eyetracking feature is cool, but it is a bit difficult to get it stable in DCS. Other games with native support seem to work better, but it takes a bit of getting used to. Luckily you can turn off the eye tracking and just do head tracking, which is working quite well. I even find it to keep center position way better than TrackIR which tends to drift and require you to hit a button to recenter it all the time.

That usb hub is a great idea, I recently tried playing sekiro and found that my joystick had to be unplugged to play it with a controller. Thanks for the tip!

What VR headset do you use

You can get FPV goggles that connect to a motion camera in the RC cockpit, though they seem pricey.

Man what a nice video. Do you also see the little vr camera live feed at the top right or is that an obs thing? I would love to use that in my reverb g2

awesome, the thing that turned me away from VR flying is not being able to do majority of regular tasks needed like looking at a list or video checlist

I have a VR index setup as well and have a 2dOF motion rig (DIY home built). I use one of the controllers for motion compensation and just have a mouse for point and click. I can't play any other way for DCS. Being in the cockpit and actually feeling the motions is just the best. BTW a motion rig is very affordable if you DIY. Lots of forums like xsimulator which give step by step instructions. Its a game changer.

Specifically regarding your worry about the USB connection on the MFG Crosswinds I've bought a cheap, short extension cable that is permanently plugged into the pedals and gently coiled around the plug section out to one of the arms, so I can replace that instead of wear out the MFG kit. Works well...

@4:30 You don't need a hardware solution for this, there is a free program called HidHide where you can hide controllers from windows. Works like a charm. In IL-2 it is (unfortunately and to the shame of the developers) essential, as you need joystick gremlin to get good hotas setups working with it. If you do get problems with joysticks or hotas glitching out because of current supply issues you might need a POWERED usb hub. Before you get one (assuming you have enough usb ports in your computer) make sure you turn power management for all your HOTAS/Pedals/Sticks off and make sure you OS can not shut them down to save power.

Like the damn video you weebs, the man shared some valuable information and tips.

Something to be aware of regarding the Warthog HOTAS and powered USB hubs: sometimes it will cause problems with the PCB boards. I had to get the one in my throttle replaced because my throttle was bricked. After doing a ton of research, some folks on the DCS forum told me this is a known issue between the two. Nothing has ever happened with the stick.

I'll recommend pointctrl for VR aswell, the creator has a long delivery time but worth the wait completely.

Thank you for sharing. From my experience, I'd like to add something regarding rudder pedals. Buy good expensive rudder pedals or stick to twist-stick. The cheap plastic pedals are in no way near real-world pedals and can cause a lot of issues. Maneuvering with a twist stick is way easier than with some flimsy plastic rudder pedals. It also depends on what kind of airplane you are flying in the sim. For example, the F-14 needs a lot of work with the rudders to keep coordinated flight or to fly single engine. In that case, good pedals become more critical.

I quit DCS due to the TM TWCS slew button. The reason I got into it was that I got the A-10C on DVD 11 years ago, and the key was valid. The A-10C is so slew heavy that the deplorable TWCS slew just doesn't work right, and everyone who buys this is going to find out the hard way. I don't know where they got the component from, because the N64 analog stick is an improvement. Because of this, I have an intense dislike of youtube PR agents doing work for TM. The value of the 16000 combo is far, far less than what it costs. On the upside, the $90 brown box trackir from ebay works perfectly.

I recently tried a few phone based tracking software paired with freetrack and also my own webcam. I haven't noticed delays but my current pc placement (and shitty curtains) make it so that there is a massive glare coming from my windows that obstruct about quarter of my left face. so tracking was glitchy sometimes. My camera is on a laptop that's 45 degrees angled to me so it probably also played a role in inaccuracies but I was happy with app based trackers a lot. One issue I had is that I have a normal office chair with wheels so if I move the chair as I play, the tracking gets worse so I would need to recalibrate the software. But that's an issue with my own setup. I am incredibly impressed by the dozens of tracking options on Freetrack. I am looking into printing ARUCO markers since they seem pretty simple and accurate as well.

To be fair the I've had my proclip for like 6 years. It's never let me down.