Post your tips & tricks!
I've had my Rift about a month, but have only been in the galaxy map a few times, and what a pain in the ass it was. I tried mapping my control bindings to something that made sense, but I still had a hell of a time trying to figure out what I was doing.
Then one evening, it just clicked. I had been trying to navigate the cursor directly onto a star, like you do with the mouse, but I just ended up getting twisted around and upside down, and maybe a little sick. Then I finally figured out that you only need to move the cursor to the disc, which is on the same plane as the cursor and connected to the star with a drop down line (or up). Now it's a breeze to select nearby stars.
I have my joystick set up like so:
pitch moves my cursor forward and back.
roll moves my cursor right and left.
twist rotates the map.
On my throttle, I have a hat switch to move the cursor up and down.
I have something assigned to tilt the map, but I don't remember and don't use it anymore.
Oh, and the throttle itself is used to zoom in and out (same as debug camera so it's natural for me).
So when I enter the map and want to visit a nearby high tech system, I usually zoom out a bit, and then rotate the map so that the high tech system is in front of me. Then I push forward on the joystick to move the cursor toward the system, and jog right or left as required. If I'm too high or too low, I use the hat switch to get closer to on plane. When the cursor gets near the disc, it kind of snaps to it, and then it is just a matter of selecting it. Then I just use my normal navigation buttons to navigate the panels.
However, I do still have some problems:
Sometimes, when the cursor has a system highlighted, I can't select it for a nav point, or can't select the system map. When this happens, I have to exit the galaxy map and start over, and it usually works the second time. I'd love to find a fix for this.
It also is a lot slower than whipping the mouse around, like if you want to check what ship is stored at that system 300ly away. I hope there is a fast mode that I just don't know about.
Anyway, the key thing about the galaxy map in VR, imho, is using the discs and not trying to select system spheres directly.