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Two weeks ago we launched our first major action to kindly convince our illusive overlords to implement a simple, but major tweak to on-foot VR in Elite dangerous odyssey.

We did get a friendly response, but that response essentially gave us no real information. Just that: if F-dev ever chooses to implement it, then they will do so when they see fit..

Fortunately, the video was watched well over 130K times and released a lot of positive energy and made many new VR players aware of the existing tweak, and many conversations started on what we could do ourselves. From this emerged Cmndr Riken, a genius perhaps only rivaled by Azimuth themselves ;)

And with the help of some actual guardian tech, and a bit of testing and trouble shooting, we were able to create a solution that not only works, it does exactly what we asked F-dev to do, just from the outside in. And Riken, never satisfied, insisted on attacking several other long-standing VR challenges and glitches also.

So now we have: EDVR

1: Single key-bind switch to on-foot VR embodied mode (you choose which key you want to use for it)

2: Grey VR flat bubble has become black bubble

3: Choose your own screen resolution for the Flat mode

4: Choose your eye distance to the flat screen in the now Black VR bubble.

5: removed the freeze-frame anomaly when transitioning into super-cruise or dropping out of super-cruise.

Please download from GitHub below (Free)

https://github.com/characterecho-sean/edvr-unofficial-patch

We ask you all to please CAREFULLY and THOROUGHLY read the instructions!!

And please use it, go out and explore, and if you run into errors, please upload the error-logs from EDVR map (in elite dangerous main map) to the Github so our glorious man Riken can optimize and fix any problems we may run into and optimize in the future.

Thank you all for the massive support with messages, upvotes and comments! Please smash the like and share this far and wide again.

Lets keep pushing for perfection with this! And give ED in VR on-foot a new dawn!

The more people use it, show it and talk about it, the more we also motivate F-dev to fix this natively. If we can do it, they can do it even better! They only need to want to do it :)

07 cmndrs and enjoy!

As a sailor who has made a few solo trips also. To me, there is nothing quite like spending a few days at sea or a big lake, finding remote islands or bays, then hopping on the little tender and stepping on an unfamiliar shore for a long hike, maybe climb a local hill or two and take in the views. but Elite dangerous comes so close to it! And, in some ways, adds something unique of it's own to the meaning of exploration.

Having finally spend a little time learning how to find and mine the various essential and more lucratieve materials, I figured (since I now have unlimited access to tritium) I could take my carrier along and combine an exploration trip with some mining. Week 1 was amazing!

I'm honestly a bit afraid that I will never make it back to the bubble. Although I guess, once the entire carrier hold is completely filled with diamonds, gold, silver, platinum and other valuables. I'll have to find a system somewhere to sell it all :)

Explore, mine, repeat! What a combo :)

(EDIT - Since many cmndr's asked again below: how my game looks this good?! Please enjoy my VR mega guide linked here. It has all the details on how exactly to get the game look like this (Either in VR or non-VR also) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgsWpMXoG7Q )

Approaching black holes slowly makes for nice views.

I made this little vid in answer to the questions I got here about my video yesterday cruising a few stars. I had forgotten about this, but a few months back, I went on a bit of a side-quest to find a solution to this problem, and I actually managed to find a solution that works pretty well.

As I mention in the video, this white curve additional setting combines with my full re-shade setup which I have fully detailed in my Elite VR guide here: https://youtu.be/SgsWpMXoG7Q?si=t2o-JZ9j2p39GSUT

Enjoy an fly dangerously 07.

It's so interesting how this game can be such a different experience depending on the music you play with it.

Pretty much every VR Elite explorer we know, is using this free camera hack/trick to explore in full VR while on foot, but it is a bit cumbersome, and it requires some custom key-binds to be set.

By simplifying the option to use the external camera, through adding one extra native external camera position at the head, or right at the forehead, facing forward (as we currently all use it)

The VR on-foot experience would become far more usable for many VR players, and this would bring many more VR players (back) to the on-foot exploration side of the game (which they currently often don't play, because they find the hack too cumbersome).

Yes, we will still will have to switch to flat view in order to: scan bio, read our O2 stats, call the ship back etc, but we are doing that now also. With this head-position as a native external camera position to switch to. It would really mean only one extra button press remains. You can switch to flat, do your scan etc, and then switch back to full VR head-mode with just one button press. No more having to unlock the free camera, moving it, positioning it, then locking it again. If you didn't get it 100% correct, adjust it again, etc.

This is a practical and very useful compromise / optimization of what already exists and works.

The current system is setup so that, switching to external camera view switches VR on, and your external camera switch automatically reverts to whichever native external view you were using before. So if you are using the new external-head position view, using the internal/extrenal camera switch will just allow you to hop instantly between normal flat view with the full hud etc, and external head view. Giving us te option to explore in VR from the eyes of our commander realistically.

So please give this a thumbs-up, share with fellow VR explorers and ask them to do the same, and comment if you agree. I think the timing just might be right for this to happen. With F-dev already looking at renewing exploration in some major ways.

So lets try to get this one tweak realized.

Thanks for your help with this!

Thanks again all for an extremely fun night! :) #glorytomankind

Physical time travel is not possible, but if it was..

Some people have this mistaken idea about time travel, that if we could travel to the past, we could predict the outcome of sports events, we would know the winning lottery ticket etc. People have these ideas because of movies like back to the future etc. But in reality, if we could physically travel back in time, we will know nothing at all about the future.

Here's why:

Our own past cannot change. Because that would make a kind of infinite feedback loop. Anything we change to our own lives in the past, would have to instantly become true for the future us. And every change could have thousands of ripple effects. So our entire personality could shift with even the smallest changes we effect to ourself in the past.

So if we could somehow manage to travel to the past, then the one past it cannot be is our own. The moment we arrived in the past, it would become a different one, because now we (from the future) are in it. So it's a different branch / a parallel timeline to our own. And it could be similar, but also very different. We would have no way to know. Sports events will very likely unfold very differently, lottery numbers will not be the same. A different president may be elected in the next elections then the one that won in our original timeline.

We would only know what happened in our original timeline, but that is the one timeline we ourselves could never travel back to. So when we arrive in the past, the future would be exactly as unknown as always. No different from how the future is now. We can make predictions based on what we know, but the future is never certain. Not even if we travel to the past.

Out of a 100 events, only perhaps one or two may unfold very similarly to what we remember happening in our original timeline. And we would have no way to tell before-hand which ones it would be. So any prediction we would make based on our own past, would be no better then guesses.

So if you ever meet a time-traveler who claims to be from the future. Ask them if they know the future? If they say Yes. Then they are not a real Time traveler. if they say No... they may be legit ;)

Because any real time-traveler would know, that the future remains uncertain. No matter when or where you travel.

You can actually already travel back in time. It's one of the wonders of the mind. Though you cannot take your physical body with you, or alter any choices you made in past moments. You can revisit every moment you remember. And we can even change the past to a small degree, by altering (overwriting) how we react to moments in the past. It can change how we feel about choices that we made. And that can powerfully change how we feel today and who we are... Changing our past can totally change who we are as a person. Psychologists use this technique all the time.

Though they don't like to call it Time Travel, but it actually is. People just want to take their body back into the past and change physical choices they made because of how it's a part of stories and movies we tell. However, that is likely one of very few things that is not possible.

Traveling to the future is also possible. most people do it all the time. Many people live mostly in the future. Very few really live in the present. Many also live in the past..

The main function of every mind is to bridge time. Time cannot be understood any other way. There is no way a single moment could ever make any sense to anything. Only with a mind, and only with time, can it be seen and (to a limited degree) understood from a single perspective. All meaning and perception itself comes from time.

If you enjoy the idea of time travel and dimensional travel. Train both your memory and your imagination. They are the only real way to travel through time.

And study both small life and big life. The smaller something is, the faster it perceives the flow of time. Dogs and cats experience time quite a bit faster then us because they are smaller. So we appear slow to them. Our voices sound lower to them (why dogs and cats react better to high pitch commands...they hear them better) to them we look like we move in slow motion.

Elephants and whales etc perceive time slower then us. To them, we seem to move very fast and we sound very high pitched to them (Like cats and dogs sound to us).

Scale is the true gateway to almost every dimension of time. The world of Ants is totally different from ours. So is the world of Birds, or whales.. That is why its called another dimension.. Perception at a different size/scale = another dimension.

If you want to really know what another dimension would look and feel like. Study animals and try to use your imagination to inhabit the world in they way that they see and feel and experience it.

Birds think of the sky as a sea. What we think of as flying, they see it more the way we think of swimming.

To a whale, the ocean is but a small pond..

Don't waste the time you have and the chance you have to travel through Time..waiting for some machine to travel time.

The coolest tools we have are our memory and our imagination. (forward and backwards time travel). And with training they are more realistic then any TV or hologram. As real as the realest dream. Fly like a bird, swim as a whale, walk amongst the ants, see like a bat, etc.

Light is just the smallest wave in time. Everything else is when small waves come together to make bigger, more complex waves. Every single moment in time, is just a certain configuration of those waves. The mind can re-create any state of the world.. And when it does. You will be there... It evolved to show us the past and future, but we got the imagination as a bonus. The ability to see many futures and pasts that may have been.

With every choice, we influence the image of the future we wish to travel towards.

Each of us is a wave traveling in time.

Conception is the birth of a complex wave in time. Made when two compatibel complex waves crash into each other in just the correct way. Creating a new wave...

Time travel is not impossible. It is the bases of all the world. The only thing that is impossible is undoing choices.

The only permanent thing in the entire universe are choices. Once made, they cannot be changed... But we can make new ones.

Since F-dev is doing some work on star color and there is some new discussion on these visual aspects of the game. Could be a good time to add some cool atmospheric effects like this to planets. It would surely make for an interesting angle to exploration. A good extra reason to visit the polar regions and night side of some planets.

#auroraswhen?

I've been lucky to travel far and see many cool places on our real world, but somehow Elite in VR competes with some of the most stunning places I've seen in real life. And it's really the only game that does :).

Every time I step into the cockpit or make a VR space walk, it's like little vacation. And I get that real sense of Far away.

This video truly shows only a tiny glimpse of the immense journey that we made together. But believe me when I tell you. To travel the entire Milky way (in 1 tot 1 scale) in VR, was absolutely a mind-blowing experience. I made new friends while visiting distant moons, saw our entire galaxy as just a single small line in an otherwise star-less sky. orbited Sagittarius A* and discovered just how big our galaxy truly is.

https://distantworlds3.space/

Is it just me or does it seem like all braben tunnels have become quite a bit longer since the last update? :) I kind of like it. Makes the distances feel even bigger. Just on a vibe flyby of the Bubble Nebula. What a stunning place!

I know for whatever reason F-dev only changed things for just two star types, (Lets hope they do same for the rest) but I happened to run into a really interesting atmospheric in this system. And some great ringed planets. So I took the Cobra for a spin to see how it all comes together. The new Milky way looks very interesting with the increased blues.

I like the new look! Hope they implement on all stars soon. The overal light of the star here seemed still pretty white to me..