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Will Lenovo Explorer Work with FSX?

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I've been an Avsim man for years and have found it very useful. I've looked in various forums for help on this subject and can't find answers so here goes with a new topic concerning virtual reality.

I'm interested in the Lenovo Explorer (let's call it LE for brevity) because it looks like a very considerable advance on what I've got at the moment. This is a two year old PC with an I7 processor and a GTX 980 graphics card and enough of the required features (I think) needed to run the LE. It links to 3 HD displays and gives me ~25 FPS on FSX. It simulates a helicopter with the 'portrait' central display giving me the full control panel and the view below including pedals and some close ground detail. The 2 side displays are mounted 'landscape'. The arrangement gives me the same views I get from my seat in the helicopter I fly, a Schweizer 300CBi but with one exception. I see only what's inside the bezels of the 3 displays - it's like looking through a fixed T-shape hole in a mask all around my head. The 110° field of view offered by the LE is considerably larger AND would move with my head, letting me do a full lookout scan.

Now to the question. Would I be able to use my current flight sim FSX with the LE? I'm not asking about my PC spec or whether othe software needed from Windows to support VR would defeat it, it's just whether FSX with its existing ability to look all round the aircraft with keyboard prompts could do the same thing on a VR headset.

Any ideas?

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I think flyinside would allow the headset to work, but how well it worked would depend on your hardware and settings.


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That's a very encouraging reply, thanks. I've seen FlyInside mentioned a lot in connection with Occulus Rift but didn't know it goes wider than that. Looks as if I need to look into FI and I'll certainly do that. Any ideas on the best places to look first, or shall I just start at FlyInside's website?

All the best,

Brian

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We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically.
 
Devons rig
Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 32GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB /  1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe /  1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5

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