Showroom DX - Compact Simulator

Thanks for the kind words @Alexey, for me my sim is an ongoing experimental work in progress, which is still a long way from being finished. I am already planning to pull it apart again to do a bunch of work around sound, surge, safety and serviceability.

I have not finished developing my current sim @Blame73 and will be adding to it for quite some time yet, as I have a series of planned stage development upgrades/additions I want to make to it.

I made my decision to create an experimental platform at the start, so I guess there was never any hope that it would be 'finished' any time soon.

What I am planning next will make it easy to live with the compact design around things like access to the JRKs, and I will lay the foundation to mess with traditional and not so traditional haptics. I also now have all of the components to complete the quasi surge table.

Nor am I finished once the next planned updates are done. I still have plans for adding drift and possibly heave.

My quasi surge table is already built into my rig @Pit and it is designed to move the controls relative to the user, not the whole rig. That way I can sustain a surge cue. My quasi surge table design does not affect the FOV, not that it really matters as I use the Rift.

My Kor-FX vest arrived this morning. I got it to do a version 1 quick and dirty evaluation for creating a harptic harness. Ultimately I will custom make a haptic harness for my sim rig, in anticipation of SimTools eventually adding transducer control.

While the Kor-FX works OK, I have to say I was shocked at how shoddy the stitching is and its overall poor quality. The first time I put batteries in it one of the sewn in battery pockets came most of the way off. First time I went to remove the front flying skull patch, which is held on with velcro, it pretty much ripped the stitching away on the velcro strip sewn to the vest.

I always planned to cut the Kor-FX open to rewire it and create an opening chest strap, so it is easy to get in and out of as part of the harness. Hence I can live with the shoddy manufacturing. But I would never recommend the Kor-FX to a gamer, the stitching and overall poor quality control is that bad. There was not even any sort of instructions included in or on the box. It is not that hard to get the basics working, but button presses with a built in feedback voice from the vest are used to configure the thing, so that really does need some sort of instructions.

I only got it this morning, but its time will soon come when it gets hacked to bits, I just need to try it first along with some other sound gear I want to link together. So no you are not crazy @Blame73.

My initial summary stands @SeatTime, the Kor-FX is poorly constructed with no information provided. The push button interface with robotic feedback voice is not really intuitive. If mine is an average example then it would not last long in general gaming use, hell it really did not stand up to just putting batteries in it for the first time without the stitching giving way.

The interesting bit will be taking a Stanley knife to it and opening up the workings. I will use the guts of it to prototype a haptic harness, which I think is a pretty cool idea for extending the use of traducers. Even in my initial test today it gives a feeling of being more completely surrounded by vibrations, but I am sure I can improve that even more and make haptics a seamless part of the harness.

Sorry @SeatTime, I should have put the Kor-FX product page for those who would have no idea of what it is or what it is for. Basically it is a wireless transducer vest: http://korfx.com/

No I don't think Kor-FX is worth it as a haptic gaming product @SeatTime, but it is useful for what I have in mind to test an idea. I will post more on that when I start cutting the Kor-FX to bits.