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Considering switching to VR

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On my 4th flight in VR now and I haven’t experienced any motion sickness so far. A couple of times I’ve felt my balance sensation move when banking in turns though! And today I momentarily got confused for a second and tried to grab the VR side stick position instead of my actual one!

But so far so good, really enjoying it and just getting used to flying under the hood rather than 2D multi screen. Im working on a few quality of life tweaks to get some app windows in VR and once that is done should be all set 

 

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    I started with VR just over a year ago using the HP Reverb G2 and simply cannot go back to 2D. Anytime I try to go back that immersion is gone. I had a few short periods where I felt queasy during the

  • changing to VR has been by far and without a shadow of doubt the most important and significant improvement that i have made in 25 yrs of flightsimming. Your specs should be ok i think.  It’

  • Welcome to the club! I'm ruined for 2D simming now.

Enjoy! There was no going back for me after trying VR. It's just on a different level for immersion.

Ryzen 9800X3D, RTX 5090, 64GB, Win 11. MSFS2020. Moza, MFG, Fulcrum & Virpil controllers. Quest 3 for VR.

On 3/2/2024 at 9:04 PM, Snuffleupagus said:

my biggest turn off is the amount of software required, the time spent tweaking, and the loss in visuals it takes to get it running “ok”

I didn't install any software except the free VR driver from Microsoft's store

didn't tweak anything except adjusting some settings in the MSFS VR configuration tab

visuals are similar or better than some users monitor resolution (2160 x 2160 resolution per eye, HP Reverb G2)

60 fps is "running ok" for me.

YMMV

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, VR: Pimax Crystal Light + HP Reverb G2 @ 90 Hz, Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant, be quiet 1000W PSU, Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black air cooler.

60-130 fps. no CPU overclocking.

very nice.

10 hours ago, mrlip said:

And today I momentarily got confused for a second and tried to grab the VR side stick position instead of my actual one!

If I had a dollar for every time I've done that I could probably retire. Many instances of poking at an overhead switch and being momentarily confused why my finger went right through the button.

It's even worse in non-flight sim games. I have a 3d treadmill which gets me a little closer to the ceiling. Playing first-person shooters on that thing, I lost count of how many times I've whacked the ceiling trying to shoot something above me.

 

Ryzen 7 7800X3D/B650 X AX | 5090 | 32gig | Win10 | Pimax Crystal Light

  • 6 months later...

I got my Quest 3 and new GPU today (4070 Ti Super 16GB) added to my 7800x3d with 32ggb ddr5 ram.

After a day of tinkering, this is the most comprehensive settings guide I found! 

When using the Link cable and the Meta app, I get a bit laggy vision but main downside are very washed out colours.

Using Virtual Desktop, set to 120mb/s I get a latency of around 70ms (where Game latency is the higher one, around 20ms). When I turn off the overlay and just enjoy flying, it’s very decent. In-game settings are mostly High.

Shouldn’t it be possible to get the best experience using the Link cable? I have the official cable that came with the Quest 2 (I bought that second hand last christmas).

I’ve also tried running X-plane 12 through the same VD settings, but latency there is a lot higher, more then 100ms. Does not feels nice to look around. Cable with Meta app is even worse. Any advice for this? Thank you!

39 minutes ago, majorswitcher said:

I got my Quest 3 and new GPU today (4070 Ti Super 16GB) added to my 7800x3d with 32ggb ddr5 ram.

 Any advice for this? Thank you!

Return it and buy a CL!

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, RTX 4080S, Ram - 32GB, 32" 4K Monitor, WIN 11.

Eric Escobar

2 hours ago, strider1 said:

Return it and buy a CL!

What is that?

20 minutes ago, majorswitcher said:

What is that?

Crystal Light. 

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, RTX 4080S, Ram - 32GB, 32" 4K Monitor, WIN 11.

Eric Escobar

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