IIRC, Eder was hoping to do new cockpit struts, though I don't recall whether he was planning to make them as screen-filling as the original WC1/2 cockpits - and I don't know if that's likely to happen anyway, given that this would inevitably delay the whole project.
Bitmap-based cockpits are probably completely out of the question... again, lots of work involved, and lots of whining, too - although that thread indicates that most people don't feel the need to switch off cockpits, I'm willing to bet that if they had to face Standoff with a permanently visible bitmap cockpit, an awful lot of people would suddenly remember that they liked the on/off switch after all.