Here's a recent interview with Austin Meyer about X-Plane, Steam, Oculus Rift etc. Quite interesting. Also explains a bit how Laminar's development process (and the involved persons) works:

 

http://xplanereviews.com/index.php?/topic/201-interview-austin-meyer-the-man-behind-x-plane/

Very insightful, hope for better clouds and weather. Still not got around playing with gamin 530 lol.

I found this especially interesting:

 

XPR: How do you plan to make X-Plane even more realistic in the future?

• clouds
  
• weather
  
• rain
  
• water
  
• more air planes, with better realism in the cockpit.
  

Those are some top items.

STEAM store Monday 14th July 2014 and I forgot about the NO-DVD required.