Elite Dangerous VR: From Brilliance to Heartbreaking Disappointment

Today, we're chatting Elite Dangerous VR, the game that took my love for space sims to new heights and then smashed it to bits. Elite Dangerous VR is a proper marvel. It turns the mundane tasks like landing your ship and scooping fuel into heart-pounding experiences. The scale and beauty of space in Elite VR is like nothin' else.

But here's where Frontier messed up. They introduced Odyssey, a DLC that promised a first-person extravaganza but had nothing but disappointment.

Elite Dangerous VR is a sad tale of what could've been, and Frontier has no clue what they've squandered.

A NOTE ON THE VR RECORDING:

I always strive to provide high quality 4k recordings on my channel. The issue with VR, in particular in Elite, is that the image is from the left eye only and therefore stretched and appears zoomed in. Likewise, even though it runs in my headset at 90fps, the time I do the recording to mirror it to 4k I lose frames. And finally, I have always found VR recordings by nature to have a chaotic feel to them. For my money the best VR videos are those where you see the player with the headset, which of course is not what this channel is about.

Therefore I decided to do the following:

- Record in Ultrawide, at maximum FOV to give a sense of the overall feel of VR in terms of its scale.
- In addition to this I used Tobi Eye Tracker 5 to further the feeling of VR.
- I still do use VR footage in this video and I call this out clearly, but for the overall sense of the video and for your enjoyment, ironically the VR elements have been kept to a minimum

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INTRO: 00:00
BACKGROUND: 00:43
EVERYDAY TASKS ARE AMAZING: 00:56
COCKPIT SCREENS: 02:28
SHIP INTERIORS: 03:18
BEAUTIFUL HORROS: 04:29
SCALE IS EVERYTHING: 06:46
PLANETARY TRAVEL: 07:49
COMBAT: 09:36
OPTIMIZATIONS & HEADSET: 10:16
FRONTIE'S SINS: 11:29
MAP NAVIGATION:12:18
LACK OF UNDERSTANDING: 13:34
A TRAGIC ENTRY: 15:17
PLAYER NUMBERS: 18:04
A SAD STORY: 18:44