Do you think oculus rift will support motion simulators?

I have near enough fixed the problems with my DK2 camera now I have attached it as solid as possible to the rig and I don't lose tracking any more or get thrown around in the rift everywhere. There is some movement which isnt much different than what you would get in real life.

I cant believe I use to be able to drive with it being so wild lol

This is great news for me. I just pre-ordered the cv1 with hopes of building a motion Sim to get the full effects. I built a computer with a i7-6700k , gtx 980 ti setup hoping it will work for both.

Excellent to hear, hope my thread on the subject helped. Mine is still working great and can attest to even less throwing around and more realistic G forces with working washouts - roll on SimTools V2.

Hi,
are there any News regarding using the Vive and Motion Cancellation?

I'm planning to Build my First Motion Sim(3Dof) in the Next Few Months (Still reading and try to learn as much as possible) and i wonder if the Tracking of the Rig would be possible with just mounting 1 or 2 Controller on it, the Controllers are Extremely accurate, i can spin them around and they never loose tracking.

My concern with the Vive and mounting it on a moving rig is that the lighthouses have a spinning motor in them. I am not sure how the motion and vibration will affect this motor as it spins, the Oculus camera has no moving parts so I suspect that would be better on a moving rig.

I have heard some reports of the lighthouses being very susceptible to vibrations but I have no first hand experience so I can't confirm.

With my DK2 I have that on a tripod in front of my 2 DOF rig. Now that I am moving to 3 DOF and the CV1 I am going to mount the camera to the front of the rig so it can rotate with me. I have 7 transducers and a lot of shaking from the motion so I am hoping it will be fine.

So far the I can say that the CV1 camera seems to be more forgiving than the DK2. I have had no issues with it skipping or jerking whilst in motion.

@Avenga76
i'm not talking mounting the Lighthouse on the Rig(they are very sensible, just flick the lightly with your finger and they shut off for a few seconds), what i mean i mounting the Motion Controllers on the Rig to Track the Rig, using the MotionControllers as a Proxy for the MotionSim Movement

@SilentChill

ah cool thx for the confimation that the CV1 Camera works better with Vibration

great to hear that, please post you findings

Nope, I think motion cancellation will be along time off if ever. Although, I and others are still running with the current camera setup successfully.

I think it's rather odd that Oculus and HTC aren't including motion sim correction right from the start. Motion and VR is such an obviously perfect match this just seems silly!

My Rift camera will be mounted to my platform so if I understand correctly what will still cause a problem is the gyro and accelerometers in the headset tilting my head up, down, left, and right when it's the platform that is moving.

It even seems like they could probably just simply allow you to turn off the gyro and accelerometers in the headset and go 100% based on the camera and it should be fine.

I'm building my 6DOF sim for lots of travel (same build as Stevant over at Thanos Motion Sim Forum) and it will be a shame if I have to tone it down because the unwanted head tilting is an issue.

I suspected that for the most part it would be tolerable, but definitely not ideal, if positional tracking is correct but on board sensors tilt your head around a bit.

No guarantees, but my Sim is capable of a bit of movement and the DK2 Tracking Camera mounted to the rig works fine for me (CV1 is meant to be even better).. See video.

Thanks NoorBeast and SeatTime! @SeatTime that video makes me even more excited to get my motion sim up and running!

The need to tilt your head up to look straight ahead under decel, down under accel, left during hard right turns, and right during hard left turns, is what I'm annoyed by. I figured that the brain would make this automatic and it wouldn't really bother the driver but still I'd like to have it not there at all if possible.

@Trip Rodriguez This is why I went with a GSeat over a platform. It may be tolerable to have to tilt your head on a fast driving rig but for a flight sim I don't think it's something I could live with. The camera on the rig is a good solution for rift (for now) but I can't imagine the Vive will fair too well.

Oculus should have considered a second IMU in the camera. Once mounted to the platform the camera IMU values could be subtracted from the headset IMU values and zero out the motion of the rig completely. I think drift in the sensors is probably the major problem though. Anyone remember back in the dk1 days before we had a camera to zero drift and we had to recentre every few minutes?

By the way Trip I love your star citizen videos. I changed to yaw on my X-axis and put roll on my pedals because of you

Yes that is the major issue with Vive. It's a good idea in theory. I'm sure some titles will be harder than others so it may be quite limited in practice.