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I'm very interested in VR with MSFS 2020..Have a question

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Hi there, I'm very interested in flying VR in MSFS 2020.. What headset would be the best for me and what brands are out there? Any help is greatly appreciated. TIA

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What's your budget? What's your hardware? How amazed do you need to be?

https://vr-compare.com/compare?h1=INGl_L_43&h2=eI13V4rx1

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I am running on an laptop.. It's an HP ENVY.I have the RTX 2060....16GB Ram..512 GB SSD...CPU i7-10750H@2.6Ghz..

 

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25 minutes ago, ptr1959w said:

I heard that once you go VR, You never go back..:)

Been using VR (HP Reverb G2) for the past 15 months and I have to agree with this statement, even though there's still tons of room for improvement.

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in the $400 range the best still is the g2.  Any headset without a DisplayPort connection will have you sacrificing image quality

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With only a 2060, I don't think you'd be able to achieve a usable framerate without a PCVR oriented headset that has a Display port connection. Your laptop has Display port 1.4 correct?

Even then, your laptop is really underpowered for VR. I doubt you'll be happy with the experience. 

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I second that opinion. The laptop with a 2060 is not going to provide a very enjoyable experience in VR at all.

For the record, I do VR on a computer with a GTX1070ti and a Pico4 headset. I do get some satisfaction out of it, but at the cost of a great lowering of the graphic settings and especially lower resolution. From what I can read on the forums here and there, this is nowhere near today's "modern simmers" expectations, really not. In fact, I'm pretty sure the quality I'm getting in my headset would simply be considered "unacceptable" by modern standards. (people seem to be ready to spend 6000 bucks on headsets and video cards, because a resolution below 8k at less than 90FPS is unplayable, I guess...)

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3 hours ago, Daube said:

because a resolution below 8k at less than 90FPS is unplayable, I guess..

my configuration:

RTX 4090 - $ 2.000

HP Reverb G2 - $ 500

7800X3D CPU - $ 500

= 35 - 45 fps in VR, quite acceptable,

"to spend 6000 bucks on headsets and video cards"

by the time the RTX 5090 is here, I will have spent more than that. my real airplane cost more. 😊

90 fps? impossible @ 8K, maybe in 2 years with RTX 5090 😊

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AMD 7800X3D, Windows 11, Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX Motherboard, 64GB DDR5 G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB (AMD Expo), RTX 4090,  Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 2 TB PCIe 4.0, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 1 TB PCIe 4.0, 4K resolution 50" TV @60Hz, HP Reverb G2 VR headset @ 90 Hz, Honeycomb Aeronautical Bravo Throttle Quadrant, be quiet 1000W PSU, Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black air cooler.

60-130 fps. no CPU overclocking.

very nice.

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11 hours ago, ptr1959w said:

I heard that once you go VR, You never go back..:)

I have a Reverb G2 and I find I use my Tobii eye tracker just as much , Tobii is good when you dont feel like putting the VR headset on and on longer flights

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3 hours ago, turbomax said:

my configuration:

RTX 4090 - $ 2.000

HP Reverb G2 - $ 500

7800X3D CPU - $ 500

= 35 - 45 fps in VR, quite acceptable,

"to spend 6000 bucks on headsets and video cards"

by the time the RTX 5090 is here, I will have spent more than that. my real airplane cost more. 😊

90 fps? impossible @ 8K, maybe in 2 years with RTX 5090 😊

It was a simple exaggeration.

It you listen to simmers here and there, Reverb G2 is the poor man's choice nowadays (and like me, you can buy a Pico4 in case you live under a bridge). People kept crying about the stupid prices from NVidia, then all proceeded to buy 4090's like they cost nothing, and these very same people are now all claiming how the Varjo Aero is the obvious best choice for our sims. The Varjo is 2000 bucks. So it a 4090. And you can still read stuff like "I set render scale to 250% else the gauges are unreadable". And I'm there, freshly out of a Gen1 VR headset, happy with my new Pico4 with my computer that barely handles the native resolution of that headset, with many options turned down, and a picture clear enough to count all the ten pixels used to draw the left corner of the engine cowl in front of me 😄

Can't wait to see the NVidia 5xxxx sold at more than 3.000 dollars, with all the simmers complaining then buying them as soon as possible...

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1 hour ago, Daube said:

now all claiming how the Varjo Aero is the obvious best choice for our sims.

not so sure, check out the various youtubes in this forum about the new Pimax Crystal before buying a Varjo Aero.


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60-130 fps. no CPU overclocking.

very nice.

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29 minutes ago, FBW737 said:

I went VR and then went back😁

Good to know, thanks.

I went VR and stayed there.

I hope my experiences and yours help others with some valuable insight into the world of VR. 

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