VR with Mouse and Keyboard?

[Afeni]

Can you play with Mouse and Keyboard in VR?

[Kissell13]

I got a difinitive answer from an experienced comp guy who said ......
To use a keyboard and mouse in VR takes special support from games. Very few games on the market support that playstyle.
The problem is that that kind of support is mostly aimed at older gamers who have never played on a console/controller in their lives (Like me) so it makes it a small market which in turn makes it costly.



This is very very very incorrect.


To answer the actual OP's question. To use the KB and mouse, pick it up. Its enabled by default. It wont work until you press a key on the KB. At that point both the KB and mouse operate as normal.

For example - running around using my rift hand controllers on a planet. Jump in space ship. Pick up kb, pless space, then just take off and fly like normal. Upon landing, pick up hand conrtollers and play. There is literally nothing else to do. I figured this out after mesing with my xbox controller for 4 hours, which does not work atm in VR. I accidently pressed a key on the kb and everything came to life.

[Kissell13]

Oh and I forgot, stop feeding the trolls. THeres one or 2 people in here either woefully stupid or just trolling. OF course head tracking and mouse works in nearly every vr game out. I can give a list of as many as you want.

[GoodDeath]

Publicado originalmente por Kissell13:

I got a difinitive answer from an experienced comp guy who said ......
To use a keyboard and mouse in VR takes special support from games. Very few games on the market support that playstyle.
The problem is that that kind of support is mostly aimed at older gamers who have never played on a console/controller in their lives (Like me) so it makes it a small market which in turn makes it costly.



This is very very very incorrect.


To answer the actual OP's question. To use the KB and mouse, pick it up. Its enabled by default. It wont work until you press a key on the KB. At that point both the KB and mouse operate as normal.

For example - running around using my rift hand controllers on a planet. Jump in space ship. Pick up kb, pless space, then just take off and fly like normal. Upon landing, pick up hand conrtollers and play. There is literally nothing else to do. I figured this out after mesing with my xbox controller for 4 hours, which does not work atm in VR. I accidently pressed a key on the kb and everything came to life.

I like this person. Such a civilized, human and helpful response.

[Nethiuz]

Still can NOT look around with mouse?
Keyboard works for back forward and strafe. but no way can look around in NMS.

[YunoAloe]

This topic is the top result for all searches about using mouse in NMS VR. Why can I actually use my keyboard and mouse @ Vive without having to do anything? The only issue I have is that I can't look up and down using the mouse. This is still a VR-stopper for me though. Could this be solved by some binding configuration perhaps? I've already submitted a ticket. I think if more people submitted tickets with this issue, it'd be done faster.

[Red River]

would be nice if they made it work with just kbm in VR
btw,this thread is about how not why...

[[NiWi] Mishka]

So it kinda works, K+M, but the big problems are when you want to scan, that menu is somewhere below at a weird angle and you can also not (aim to) build.
I wish I could just play it with K+M while in VR, it feels so much better than with the badly implemented VR controls. Also controller support for flying would be great.

[BadTrip]

Publicado originalmente por Be Blue ! 👌:

But, what's the point? You can just move up closer to your monitor lol

The question was not about playing with VR or not, you muppet. If you have nothing useful to add, just sit down and shut up. Clearly your mother didn't smack you around enough.

[[NiWi] Mishka]

Guys try NMS again in VR! Gamepad is now fully functional! (No K+M but it is something)

[Red River]

Publicado originalmente por CTxMishka:

Guys try NMS again in VR! Gamepad is now fully functional! (No K+M but it is something)

it was working with kbm only but wasn't very good and I don't have the gamepad.
also VR visuals weren't as good. maybe this has changed in recent years...

[Jeronimo]

Publicado originalmente por Be Blue ! 👌:

Publicado originalmente por Apocolyptica:

How does just moving closer to your monitor help since what's around you wouldn't be displayed?

Well what's the difference of moving up to your monitor than playing VR without VR controls and just looking around with mouse and using keyboard?

Came across this thread as a result of google search. Had to login just to tell you how much stupid your comment is.

Goodbye. Hope those few year gave you a chance to learn how VR works.

[Abstractn]

So, anyone has confirmation about this at all? I see people saying it's not possible and others say that they do it with no issue. Is K+M in VR possible or not? If it is how do you make it work? I launch NMS in VR and my mouse and keyboard controls are just not working and I have no other controller enabled.

[[NiWi] Mishka]

Publicado originalmente por Abstractn:

So, anyone has confirmation about this at all? I see people saying it's not possible and others say that they do it with no issue. Is K+M in VR possible or not? If it is how do you make it work? I launch NMS in VR and my mouse and keyboard controls are just not working and I have no other controller enabled.

Hi, what works and what doesn't in VR has changed a lot over many updates. I'm afraid it's a little more broken now than before.
K+M used to work at some point, but it doesn't appear to work anymore right now, just like you discribe.
Controller (Gamepad) works ... until you go into the menu, the cursor doesn't seem to move then, so doen't really work neither actually.
For now the only option in VR seems to be the motion controllers. There are more options for flight (twist) and that helps but the main struggle there in my opinion is navigating the space map...

[Everhard Dawnwood]

Publicado originalmente por Be Blue ! 👌:

Publicado originalmente por Squilliam:

Holy crap you must be trolling. If not, try VR for goodness sake, you are so wrong here.

I've had VR for a while, tell me the difference between sticking your face to your monitor and using a VR with a mouse and keyboard

The guy is talking about using the VR with stereoscopic 3D view, not just playing on a virtual screen, hence why he experience the great main difference and what he wants is that along with keyboard and mouse controls.