Based on our patent-pending VR controller design for real guns, we have partnered with Ilium VR to make prototypes for a real 12 gauge shotgun VR controller and a real 9mm handgun VR controller. The VR motion sensors will be attachable to a shotgun – 12 or 20 gauge and a handgun – 9mm to start. The trigger controller will be attached to a trigger-guard housing so that the gun’s trigger is immobilized during VR use. If you’ve spent any time in VR, the one thing you learn quickly is that you can’t see a thing – in the real world. And putting VR controls onto a real gun necessitates keeping finger off the trigger and on the controller.
The best VR gun controller for your own real gun
Should have working prototypes in about a month. Watch this space
Using your own gun is critical to VR shotgun training – you are at a Virtual Reality gun range shooting clays at true scale, speed and trajectory – you might as well use your own gun – not a plastic toy
Likewise, if you are a homeowner or a LEO training shoot/don’t shoot in an urban VR setting, you might as well use your own handgun. You are not going to shoot a bad gun with an Xbox controller.
Or you can shoot sporting clays with your 9mm – CLAZER will allow for that.
VR tracker and VR controller attached to revolver
What about adjusting for POA/POI depending on the gun? I have a higher step rib on my shotgun and had to adjust the camera on my Shotkam using its built in laser. A friend wanted to try the Shotkam on his gun but because he had a flat rib, the video playback showed a hugely different aiming point on the video playback compared to my gun. I am thinking this might be a feature that a serious shooter might want on the VR.
We can do that no problem – but we need to launch – so that is probably 2.0 – and a free update
Are there any plans to use the Zeiss VR One goggles so that those of us with iPhones can shoot in VR?
I’m a Mac guy so we will do an Apple iOS version. But Gen 1 is OR, Steam and Sony
See http://www.leadtech.co/clazer-for-iphone-vr-goggles-by-zeiss/