Thanks for the reviews! I've got my eye on one of these, though every time I talk about it the missus pulls a face and laughs, but a man can dream! I've been waiting for people to buy them and see how they are, and they seem good, except perhaps not suited for two-hour long bombing sorties or fighter sweeps judging by what's being said about the weight of the thing.
The only major problem I see with it though is having to press buttons etc. by feel. Mostly it's fine since I can touch type, but if your eyes are totally closed off and you put your hand on the wrong button you could end up dropping bombs at 50ft instead of putting your gear down or something of the like. As was pointed out, Kinect working with this would be brilliant, but then it would require a fully animated pilot model that moves along with you in the cockpit, something which I think would be such as massive and complicated task to do (and most importantly to get right) it's unlikely anyone would bother, at least right now.
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