1 hour ago, blueshark747 said:

Honestly that's the only aircraft I enjoy in the new sim for now is the ICON A5.

Yes - the Icon A5 is my alternative to the ultralight. It has excellent visibility - and I really enjoy being able to land on water too.

So...to sum up.

Fly the slow aircrafts in the countryside, be very careful with the settings and everything is hunky dory. 

Or...fly any airliner near a city and you will get a headache and vomit during final approach

Now...is MSFS VR ready?

For me it's ready, can it be improved, yes but it's doing it's job for me at least. 

I'm on a lower end GPU (1070 GTX) on an Alienware R4 that's 3 years old with the Quest 2 and I've worked my way through the smaller aircraft up to the TBM and Caravan. I've narrowed down my settings and am hovering around 30 fps according to the performance hud. 

The smaller gauges are hard to read and manipulate, the ground is a bit blurry and my eyes get tired after about an hour or so, but wow, the immersion.  Regardless of ready or not, VR puts you in the plane in a 3d environment with depth, taxiing and landings are incredible, it's so immersive I'm having trouble going back to 2d.  Hec, just flying a circuit around my home airport is an experience, not to mention just clicking on a POI in the map and flying around that area has replaced flight planning etc... for now.

The feeling of being in the plane and actually being in the environment has convinced me that this is the way forward.  It may not be for everyone obviously but for me, I'm hooked. 

Edited January 3, 20215 yr by slashed2

On 12/30/2020 at 7:53 AM, flightsim1818 said:

For me VR is not ready. But then again I am not running the latest but no slouch either. 8700K and ROG Strix 1080ti OC. It's a slideshow no matter how low I go on the settings. Others report similar.

https://uploadvr.com/microsoft-flight-sim-vr-players-performance-issues/

Then I go to Aerofly FS2 + ORBX. Very smooth with maxed out settings. 

 

I have an 8600K and a Strix 1070TI and VR is working absolutely fine for me (Oculus Rift). Most of my settings are even on high (100% resolution), as I happily trade in some minor stutter for better lookings clouds.

One thing to note is that planes with an big glasscockpit (TMB or KingAir f.e.) seems to behave a whole lot worse than those with small glasscockpits (cub f.e.) and the best are classic cockpit planes, although that sounds worse than it really is, because when you go over 20.000 feet where most these planes fly most of the time then the frames are ok, even on airliners. 

But if someone wants to take out the TBM or Airbus for VFR flying 1000 feets over ground, the frames will be very bad, no matter the settings. At least thats how its currently working for me and I tested a lot with different planes and settings. The cloud settings seems to be the single most important one.

Taking the Cessna 152 I can even fly 1000 feet over New York with no noticable stutter

My opinion after a few hours is - if I bought a $600 HMD & upgraded my GPU to the tune of $600 solely for MSFS VR, I might be disappointed. The graphics/performance are really not super optimized for VR, which was not surprising given the 2D performance of the sim, but is a bit of a shame given Asobo's work on HoloLens - they should know what is required for a really great VR experience. 

But I bought a $250 used HMD, stuck with my existing GPU, and my primary use case was to play Half Life: Alyx. I mentally prepared myself that MSFS would be a bonus.  It's a neat experience.  Bush flying and landing on weird sloped runways, etc is way easier with depth perception (nailing a nice smooth landing in general is way easier with depth perception and being able to have your head position at the right height and quickly glance down at instruments).  Not having other windows open encourages better immersion.

I will say that I don't get nausea in real life when on boats/aircraft, so I am probably less succeptable to low framerate related issues than others might be.  I have not peeped framerates but I doubt I am getting over 40 fps.