Why no VR?

[Preach_A]

This. Wouldn´t it be great to have VR? Is it that complicated to implement?

[Woober]

There is lot of technical challenges to make this into VR. As VR doesnt support many types of shaders, that we use in our game and you need a stable 90fps to dont get motion sickness, this would need quite a lot of rework to work properly. Currently there is no plans for VR, but it could be that we look into this later on.

[DC]

They have issues with rendering waves while keeping fps up atm and you are asking for VR?

[brian_va]

Originally posted by DC:

They have issues with rendering waves while keeping fps up atm and you are asking for VR?

Can't notice the fps drops if you're getting sick.

[Preach_A]

Thanks for your reply. Maybe I was a bit naiv thinking VR is not that complicated to implement. Sadly, there are no cool "Ship simulators" in VR apart from Regatta VR as far as I know.

[Oprah Winfrey]

Would absolutely love VR for this. Understand that it might be hard but even a version that never leaves beta with tons of caveats would be sweet. In any case, thanks for the continued updates!

[sluxi]

Even with performance issues and just a simple implementation I'd love to play this in VR. There just isn't anything like it currently.

Not running well didn't stop Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 from releasing their VR support and it's possible for a game to be enjoyable even if it's not meeting that 90Hz baseline all the time even though obviously preferable for it to be.

Unreal engine also supports DLSS 2.1 for VR so maybe that could help. Just recently saw an indie dev add support for it to their game.

[Woober]

Hopefully we get time to look into VR at some point, but its not a high priority right now. Of course it would be awesome, so lets see what we can do later on ;)

[joi76]

I'm currently running the game at max settings with around 85-100fps
I have tried a tiny sailboat simulator in VR in bad seas, was pretty awesome and relaxing at the same time.
My dad, a hardy sailor for 50 years got motion sickness from playing that
It just adds to the realism
Personally I wouldn't mind playing it in VR despite it not being perfect and buggy, but I'd expect most players would just complain as usual while they vomit all over their rooms hehe

[Oprah Winfrey]

Any updates on this? It would be fantastic to have.