XPlane VR Oculus Rift components

[jdr37 4]

As is obvious, I am an absolute newbie to the world of VR. I want to try out VR with X plane and am looking to buy the minimum hardware, (used), required to do so. What are the only essential Oculus Rift components necessary to try it out.

Thanks.

[HiFlyer 9,360]

If you want a Rift, I would say the get a rift s for the inside out tracking which means you don't have to nail sensors to your walls. There is not much to the package, just the headset, controllers and cables.

Oculus seems to be putting most of its attention on the Quest right now, but even with the link cable that would allow you to use it with sims, there are reported bandwidth issues that might result in an inferior image compared to simply a mainline, wired Rift.

[jdr37 4]

Thanks. Couple of questions: when you say "controllers", what does that include? Also, I am looking at Rift because that seems to be what I found suggested.

Other brands also work well with XP? 

[ryanbatc 12,857]

I am curious about this too...  I've only tried VR at a few friend's houses....  overall I say it's not ready for prime time but still fun for VFR flight.

Is my video card (GTX 1080 Ti) powerful enough?  What about CPU? 4790K....

[Casualcas 830]

On 4/5/2020 at 4:07 PM, ryanbatcund said:

I am curious about this too...  I've only tried VR at a few friend's houses....  overall I say it's not ready for prime time but still fun for VFR flight.

Is my video card (GTX 1080 Ti) powerful enough?  What about CPU? 4790K....

1080 ti is minimum . But it will work fantastic. 

[Fizzelle 66]

On 4/8/2020 at 12:10 AM, Casualcas said:

1080 ti is minimum . But it will work fantastic. 

Nope that's not right.

I have a GTX980ti and the experience is buttery especially in Vulkan. Other specs Haswell at 4.3ghz, 32 GB RAM

[mSparks 2,086]

On 4/8/2020 at 1:10 AM, Casualcas said:

1080 ti is minimum

I'm using a 1070 on Linux with a PSVR, its good with 11.50.

1 hour ago, Fizzelle said:

GTX980ti

Its a (very) nice card, but they didn't add the "draw both eyes in one pass" functionality until the 10 series. which means the performance impact on cards released before that is pretty awefull.

Just like RTX got added to the 20 series, you can run both raytrace and VR on cards without the specialised silicon - but the performance will leave a lot to be desired.

Edited April 14, 2020 by mSparks