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Is VR camera animation possible?

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In smaller, faster planes the standard VR camera is pretty uncomfortable in turbulence. Unlike the monitor view, whose camera bounces a bit with physical shifts (as your head would be, keeping your view somewhat stable with the horizon), the VR camera is hard locked to its position and orientation within the cockpit.

Skimming through the SDK docs it looks like any animation (ie translation/rotation) applied to cameras in VR is disregarded. Is this correct or is there a way around this?

I’d really like to build a VR camera physics mod that maps more closely to how a pilot’s head moves in real life — rapid changes tending to show as the cockpit bouncing around you (with the horizon being stable), but recentering to a heads-forward view. Might also be nice to set the camera roll to align with your experienced G-forces, so that, say, in a straight slip the horizon appears level and the craft looks tilted to the side, but in coordinated turns the cockpit is level. That’s how it looks to my eyes.

The physical model for the pilot’s head should be quite simple to code, but I have no clue if there are feasible hooks to do this, or if the guardrails on VR comfort are too powerful.
 
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