Many aircraft in-game have HMD of varying types and levels of quality. Some of the more modern/capable HMDs include additional symbology other than a simple aiming reticle such as the HMCS on the Tornado GR4 or the Striker 1 on the Eurofighter Typhoon.
However, none of this symbology is visible within third person, which is how most of the playerbase interact with the game and so, all that time and effort is lost on a feature that most wont actually use, because flying in cockpit within gamemodes such as ARB is quite the disadvantage.
So I would propose adding some new options, that would include the option to enable HMD symbology to appear when in third person. Allowing these awesome HMDs to be usable within the wider game other than usually only Air Simulator.
There could be some balancing concerns regarding the level of information that some HMDs are able to display vs others, or even vs aircraft that dont get any, but given these aircraft are usually quite high anyway, I dont see this as a major issue, and its not adding new information, only changing how existing information is displayed.
There is also a major concern regarding how the HMD symbology would interact with existing third person symbology, such as player names and markers. I would suggest either adding settings to configure these manually or having certain elements of the UI disable based upon what the HMD is able to display. For example, if the HMD can show friendly DL such as the Typhoon’s or A-10Cs, then friendly markers could be disabled in favour of the IFF symbology. And instead of the green box showing lock, it would instead use the actual HMDs symbology for that
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