Hello readers!
My name is Ethan Peng and I am the document manager for X-Fade Flight Simulator. We are at the end of week 4 and have done some modifications with our project. What makes our flight simulator different compared to others is that we will be incorporating Oculus. Oculus is a popular virtual reality gear. Having Oculus will not only engage the players into the game more but also gives us more design freedom and be more creative. After some research, we decided to not use the current game in the project, x-plane, due to its restrictions such as limited game data and compatible only with some software. We have installed DCS World and will be using it for our senior design. We will also replace ardsim.h with sim tools to receive better game data. The process of installing sim tools and allowing it to communicate with DCS world will be our next objective. Other than that, we are doing various independent researches on different topics such as oculus and control systems as well. It turns out that the computer that was given to us needs some serious hardware upgrade to do the things we want to do. We did some calculations and realized that we will need more funds. We are in the process of applying for Urop and ask our readers if they would be kind enough to support us (donations or suggestions for our project). Please contact me at ethanp@uci.edu Thanks for reading and happy building!

Ethan Peng
X-Fade Flight Simulator