Can you recreate the ergonomics and sight picture of a real shotgun in VR ? More precisely, when your head is on the stock, do you see in VR what you see at the range and the field ?
The short answer is yes – if you shoot correctly – as someone that I have known since birth demonstrates below with an old Browning with a low comb.
This is kind of important to know since we get the first prototype VR gun controllers next week.
If you shoot head up, not turned down – facing the target more or less “head on” – the FOV of the VR goggles is sufficient to give you good peripheral vision – about as much as you can use shooting clays.
Head up – see it all !
If you shoot with your head turned down onto a low comb, you are apt to cut off some of your offhand side peripheral vision – since the VR goggles act like blinders at the edges.
With head down on a low comb, the offhand side (away from trigger hand) may lose a bit of peripheral vision. So if you have a target coming in from 9 o’clock, your peripheral vision may not pick it up as quickly.
That’s the way it is in the real world, the “blinder” effect of the goggles simply emphasizes the fact that you can compromise your peripheral vision based on how you hold your head to the comb.
Correct form works in VR as well as the real world.
The next challenge we face is the rib – if you shoot a high one, we are going to have to add an adjustment in VR to allow the VR rib to be raised.
Head turned – see it small ?
Does the system, used on a realshotgun, recreate the the same gun mount and fit that the real thing? I mean, does the sight picture change when you lift your head so you get to see a better part of the rib? would it shoot high if I shot then, as it would in reality?
Yes – that is exactly how it works – which is why we are offering three different size VR guns that will approximate most commonly used real shotguns at the range. You lift your head from the real gun and your VR view changes on the VR gun, the rib, aim point, etc.
We are way behind in getting production models out but are building the first batch of gun controllers for users that already have their Vive Trackers