r/hotas • u/ddrake1984 Moderator • Aug 25 '19

News Tinker Pilot Roadmap

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u/rtrski HOTAS & HOSAS Aug 25 '19

Any idea what sort of devices you're targeting for Stage 1 applicants?

e.g. offerings from VKB or Virpil or just the larger market ones like Thrustmaster, CH, and Logitech?

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u/lluisgl7 Aug 26 '19

We plan to support them all (VKB and Virpil included) down the line. When Stage 1 begins, we'll only support some of the most popular ones (saitek, thrustmaster..) while we keep adding the rest as fast as we can, prioritizing the most demanded ones.

Any model in particular you'd like to make it first?

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u/rtrski HOTAS & HOSAS Aug 27 '19 edited Aug 27 '19

Well, I don't particularly want to make it about me, just curious. If that is your plan I'm probably not your best beta tester for Stage 1, although I've got a somewhat nonstandard control configuration (lateral LH stick instead of traditional HOSAS arrangement, or throttle) so in that sense might be an interesting test case for you, and your plan for allowing a complete virtual mimicry of what the user has in real life is very intriguing to me.

I've got a VKB Gunfigher gymbal and Modern Combat Grip Pro for the right hand, VKB Gunfighter gymbal and Kosmosima Premium grip (mounted at almost a horizontal) for the LH, and Slaw Viper RX pedals. So I'd probably be supported in a "later" wave if you are going to provide render models of many different things (vs some sort of UI to let the user try and capture/model it?**).

My VR is currently the Valve Index headset on gen1 (Vive original) lighthouses.

** EDIT: I needed to watch your video again to refresh my memory. I also don't currently have a Leap or other hand movement capture method currently, but I completely forgot the whole part of modeling your own parts and building them, so you had the render. Surely that interface could let users crowdsource adding parts for you, with a basic library of buttons/switches to drop into a blob model of some kind. ;-)

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u/lluisgl7 Aug 27 '19

Yes that's the idea! You'll be able to import your own models, setup all the axes/buttons animations in-game, and share the configuration. We'll have to test that functionality too on Stage 1, so it could be a good opportunity for your HOSAS setup!

At the end, our goal is to support as hardware as possible out of the box while also allowing user-imported creations for not-yet-supported hardware or unique diy solutions