Iracing Camera Controls

[Rita Seliba]

Iagree 100% and have been using "lock view to horizon" for many years. Not only for VR, but also for a triple projector setup.

There is no motion sickness with this option (which I assume can be seen as a sign that our brains perceive it as the more natural view).

We have to admit though that it work better with Road Racing as opposed to Oval Racing.

Your brain lock your view to horizon all the time. You can tilt your head in any position, your brain will lock it to horizon. That is the reality. On a movie or a video game, if the view is not lock to the horizon, you will have motion sickness, because your brain dosn't like this.

If your brain automatically does it then making the game do it for you doesn't really make sense?

If you get motion sickness then yes turn it on. But if you don't then it's way better without it.

Your eyes and brain only does this in a real world scenario because of the effect of gravity on the inner ear. If a video game camera starts tilting the world, but the inner ear does not feel a change, then you can cause motion sickness as what you see and feel doesn't match. Here is a paper with more info.

-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(05)00837-7.pdf

Hi JT, how are the images confusing? You can see the earth's horizon in the background in both images which shows the reference for the direction gravity would be working on the inner ear. In one image, the horizon is level and car is tilted, in the other image the car is level and the horizon is tilted.

Automobilista, rFactor, rFactor2.

These are not directly supported, but there is a plugin available on the internet, called RealHeadMotion by MagicFR, which does what you describe.

I find the default 'locked to vehicle' view very uncomfortable after a few laps, but if I use the plugin, which changes the view to 'locked to horizon', I am fine.

For people prone to motion sickness it might be some solution but for the rest it is just unrealistic! When you sit in any race car you are tightly strapped to the seat and your body movement is very limited so the view to car lock is not so far t\from the truth and in VR unlike on the monitor your head movement compensate for horizon changes. I think you are entirely wrong in your assumptions. I drive in my sim rig in Project Cars, Assetto Corsa, Dirt Rally, Live for Speed and others sims and always have view locked to car. I tried driving Dirt with default view (locked to horizon) and was very slow and my reaction time was so much worse until I switched to car locked. When driving race cars you simply can't lean left and right and up and down according to horizon! Also the G forces push you usually outside the horizontal line, out of the corner. For some it might be good but don't shove it down the throath of everyone becouse it isn't right!

Not sure I agree with the assessment in this article.. I think it is more of a subjective than an objective matter. I for example cannot stand the view locked to the horizon setting as it makes me VR sick almost instantly, the locked to the car works much better for me.

My findings also fall in line with the prevailing wisdom of cockpit VR games helping with motion sickness as the fixed cockpit around the player helps to "ground" them. When that cockpit starts shifting and moving around as if you're moving your head, when you're not, it makes for near instant motion sickness... At least for me.

I can't believe I've only just discovered this setting in Assetto Corsa. I've been playing around with different settings for almost three years, gradually improving the feel of the game. Locking the view to the horizon has made driving so much more intuitive and provides a completely new and thoroughly enjoyable sim experience. What is your opinion on the g-force settings in Assetto Corsa? I've currently got them all set to 3x.

Man i wish i had read this when i owned a VR headset. I bought one specificly for getting back into racing. Couldnt handle it, 20 min carburettor cup on iracing felt like id done the le mans 24hr. Elite dangerous however, mostly a joy - couple of moments in asteroid field maybe. I ended up going back to tripple screen and selling to fund a rig, so i would have loved to have tried these settings. This article needs more people to see because i bet alot are/were in the same boat as me

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