Any of you still using the RTX2060 Super what are your opinions on best headset and optimal res?  I'm thinking of picking one up (i swear honey, just THINKING) and don't see anyone asking this particular question of late at least.  Thank you for your help!  (Any testimonials that my loving wife should read are of course doubly appreciated and may yield donations depending upon creativity and overall impact 🙂 ).  

I don't have the 2060, but have a 2080 and a Vive Index. If you are interested in VR I don't think you can do better right now than an HP Reverb G2 if you are cost conscious. The Black Friday deals going on right now are at $399 where the MSRP is $599. For that price I'm tempted to switch from my Index but I'll probably hold out for a next gen headset since the G2 is mostly a step sideways for my Index.

I could not get the G2 to run , I have 2060 super. The G2 would not light up , would not turn on. I could not contact HP help, they never answered phone nor email, so I sent the G2 back to HP for refund. And got an Oculus Quest2. It does not run satsifactorly on my system, performance fps is low and it stutters. On the other hand Aerofly works perfectly at very high fps.

The G2 has better performance fps and smoothness in MSFS when it works, so everybody says. Make sure if you try the G2 to buy where they will take it back if it does not work.

On 11/29/2021 at 6:37 PM, ZoblebV8 said:

I don't have the 2060, but have a 2080 and a Vive Index. If you are interested in VR I don't think you can do better right now than an HP Reverb G2 if you are cost conscious. The Black Friday deals going on right now are at $399 where the MSRP is $599. For that price I'm tempted to switch from my Index but I'll probably hold out for a next gen headset since the G2 is mostly a step sideways for my Index.

Where can I find this for $399??

1 hour ago, badgenes said:

Where can I find this for $399??

HP themselves were selling it for $399 during their Black Friday sales, along with a lot of other retailers. I see HP now shows it at $549 instead of their normal $599 so not so good of a deal now. If you are interested I'd keep an eye on the price at HP and other major retailers and hope it drops again as we get closer to the end of year holidays.

For those with more money than sense (not me at the moment but anything could tip the scales, its that delicate a balance) it is $449 at Microsoft!  

Would this even be usable with a 2060 Super?

I understand the G2 2021 version has improved tracking over the previous version and Im not sure which one the stores are selling on sale.  and I dont really know how to find out for sure either.

I have a GTX 1070 and Windows Mixed Reality Portal App claims I can run a WMR device of which the G2 is one.  But it may be just a generic claim to get me to buy one and then discover why it wont work.  hopefully not.  The G2 is expensive.

For MSFS to yield any sort of acceptable frame rate for an HP Reverb G2 driven by a 2060 Super will require such a low render scale graphics setting that the VR image quality will be a soft blur in the cockpit, thus reading most, if any, instruments will be not possible (unless they are zoomed in to).  Also, nearly all other graphics settings will have to be off/low.  Even though MSFS touts VR, it takes extraordinary graphics power to get anything of reasonable visual quality out of it, and the word "reasonable" here is giving what it does deliver too much credit IMO.

Edited December 5, 20214 yr by TheFamilyMan

I have to recant my above post, in that the main readouts of the instruments are intelligible with a HP Reverb G2 using a 50% render scale, which is also on top of a "OpenXR developer tools for WMR" 70% custom render scale.  At these settings the virtual cockpit will be a soft focus blur, though the scenery seems less so, but if you really got to have VR in MSFS with a less than a top end end gcard you will have to deal with this.  VR HMDs with lower resolutions add a noticeable screen door effect, which when coupled with this blurriness can really make the reading instruments and airfield markings challenging.

my main reason for getting a VR device is to play VR games that double as exercise like 'Racket:Nx'.  If I can use it to fly then thats a plus.  I don't have good eyesight and can't see the instruments in MSFS very well anyway so I tend to just fly and enjoy the scenery.  I figure once they improve avionics and all that enough to where I might care, then I'll take flying more seriously but at the moment its just about enjoying a birds eye view.

I don't know if you can still pick up a Samsung Odyssey+, but I run that on a GTX 1080.

That s an interesting topic for me :

I currently have a 2060 NON Super and a HP WMR headset. I manage to keep a 25-40 FPS anywhere with any aircraft in mid-high settings. Of course, the resolution of this headset is poor which kind of break the immersion and I have a hard time reading the screens in the cockpit.

That s why I begin to consider switching to an oculus quest 2 or a reverb G2 headset which have a higher resolution I think.

So my question is, is the performance going to be much worse with these headsets and will my GPU be able to manage it ? I also have 32gb of RAM.

Thanks !

I picked up a used Odyssey+ for $150 and it's working quite well with my 2060S.