I am curious to learn if anyone has tried this and what the verdict is. Is it possible in VR ? are you able to use (hardware) buttons for some of the commands?

 

Edited May 9, 20242 yr by avhpilot

Yes, I use it in VR. As long as you know what to say.  It is very simular to Pilot2ATc if you ever used that. 

Mic key assigned to a button on my yoke. 

 

 

Edited May 9, 20242 yr by rickjake

In WMR (OpenXR) it is possible to open the desktop in VR with the windows key or the lightened X button on the Xbox controller. MSFS must be in windowed mode and made as small a window as possible. You can have BeyondATC or whatever app in the taskbar and open and use it in the window inside the VR environment. Before closing this window just click MSFS so it gets the focus again.

This as an aside because OpenKneeboard didn't work for me (apps were visible but no interaction). FsDesktop did work but I find 30$ to much of an investment for what it does.

Edited May 15, 20242 yr by Gerwil

I've been trying to diagnose the problem I've had with BATC and extremely slow responses. Turns out that when I'm using VR, and mouse click somewhere inside my VR field of view, BATC does not respond, or only slowly. Something to do with focus, I'm assuming. Those are the circumstances, but I've not found a cure yet. 'Always on Top' and 'Toggle Bring to Front' don't make any difference.

Edited May 23, 20242 yr by Petraeus

On 5/23/2024 at 10:41 PM, Petraeus said:

I've been trying to diagnose the problem I've had with BATC and extremely slow responses. Turns out that when I'm using VR, and mouse click somewhere inside my VR field of view, BATC does not respond, or only slowly. Something to do with focus, I'm assuming. Those are the circumstances, but I've not found a cure yet. 'Always on Top' and 'Toggle Bring to Front' don't make any difference.

I'm getting a similar issue.  Did you find a solution for this yet?  Are you saying if you mouse click outside the VR and press the PTT button,  the response is normal?

5 hours ago, precog said:

I'm getting a similar issue.  Did you find a solution for this yet?

Running the 2D MSFS in Full Screen seems to fix it.

Yea gotta pass on BATC until they implement real VR compatibility.

On 5/9/2024 at 5:54 PM, rickjake said:

Yes, I use it in VR. As long as you know what to say.  It is very simular to Pilot2ATc if you ever used that. 

Mic key assigned to a button on my yoke. 

 

 

I do the same and it works like a charm for me. I get the frequencies from the Navigraph in-game panel. If you have used Vatsim, BATC feels very similar. For both, you need to familiarize yourself with some IFR communication patterns. But once you get the hang of it, it feels very natural.

Peter

The only way i can get decent performance is alt-tabbing to the BATC window whenever i have to intereact with it.  very annoying!  Running the 2D MSFS in Full Screen did seem to do anything for me

I use OpenKneeboard to display the BATC window in VR. Works just fine with no issues. I have the BATC window on my secondary monitor, and all interactions with buttons and mouse work like they should. However, I don't use the mouse with BATC once I am in VR. I do my flight plan setup before I enter VR, and after that I only need the talk and reply buttons to interact with BATC. I also keep the OpenKneeboard window hidden most of the time, and toggle the visibility if I need to recap the ATC instructions.

For my needs, BATC with OpenKneeboard works almost how I would expect a native VR integration in BATC should work.