Love my CV1 so far. I've found how to achieve presence every time:
Boot up Project Cars. Create a single race by yourself. Pick a car with a roof. Set conditions to the middle of the night in a thunderstorm. Drive to a quite part of a track and switch the engine off. Now just sit back and enjoy the moment. Sometimes I even turn the wipers/lights off.
I had an experience close to presence with my 3d projector and the IZ3D stereo driver like this: FSX, night flight, heavy rain, L-39 (which has very well done landing lights), then taxi to the runway and align for take off and enjoy the view before taking off.
It may not be "presence" without a HMD and 1:1 headtracking, but I can't tell you that my brain was fooled to believe I was looking at a real scene. Lighting makes a lot to make a scene feel real and night conditions are prone to create that feeling.
Well, i menaged a similar situation with the DK2 in ED "parked" into an Asteroids belt, waiting for some wanted to pop out and talking via radio with my wing buddy about the price of an anaconda... Freeking awesome!!!
I can't take the wait anymore!!! I'm going to wait for a thunderstorm then drive my car on the football field and think how much better this would be in VR.
It really would be better in VR because I also would have a invisible fridge full of beer hidden in the rain about 4 meters away.
