JacquesBrel

I have never used my VR controllers in any flightsim. I have my mouse next to my yoke. Moving my hand from the yoke to the mouse is as easy and convenient as moving my hand from my desktop keyboard to my mouse. Having to move my hand from the yoke and pick up a VR controller is not as easy and convenient.

Air Link wireless streaming is just video data streamed via a wifi connection. The USB Quest Link is precisely the same - video data streamed via a USB connection. The video data from your PC is just a compressed video stream like what you see on YouTube where compressed video data is streamed from the YouTube servers to your PC.

Both. The USB connection is called "Quest Link" just like the wireless connection is called "Air Link", meaning that both types link the headset to your PC and enables the PC to stream to your headset. They work exactly the same. The USB connection from the PC will also deliver power to the Quest battery, and the battery will drain slower than Air Link. Depending on the power delivery from your PC USB port, and the power rating of the USB cable, the headset battery can last 3-4 hours or more. I use a 100W USB cable and my motherboard delivers almost enough power to keep the battery charged - it only drains around 4-5% per hour. But in normal circumstances you can expect around 3-4 hours battery life.

Yes.

In my daily use of my Quest 3 I have yet to see a Facebook logo or the word "Facebook" mentioned anywhere in the parts of the UI I use every day. Insofar as Facebook is somehow "part of the deal" I don't see them anywhere. In case they gather information about how I use my Quest 3, like Google does with my GMail and such, I really don't care.

I have both a Quest 2 and 3, and I also had a Reverb G2. I would absolutely recommend you get a Quest 3. The lenses and image quality is so much better than the other two options that it is absolutely worth the asking price.

The general benchmarks I have seen says that the performance of a 4070 is more or less on par with a 3080 in most games. I had a 3080 when I got my Quest 3 and MSFS had quite acceptable performance with mostly high graphics settings. So I assume you will be quite all right with a 4070.

More details about the Honeycomb drama: Interview with Nicki Repenning who tells his side of the story about the internal company power struggle: https://www.thresholdx.net/article/wtfhcmb

An update about "new management" was posted on the Honeycomb website today: https://flyhoneycomb.com/blogs/news/management-change-update

Yes, many thanks for all your work. It is much appreciated.

This is also my experience. I have tried Virtual Desktop but I prefer USB Link. With USB Link and the Oculus Debug Tool I can tweak more settings than the Virtual Desktop UI allows. For one thing, I get better image quality with H.264 and as much bitrate as the connection allows. In the Virtual Desktop UI I cannot go higher than 350 mbps with H.264 selected. In the Oculus Debug Tool I can set whatever bitrate I want, and my wifi can reliably pull 500 mbps through Oculus Air Link, and my USB cable can go up to 750 mbps. Not surprisingly, 750 mbps gives me the best image quality.

OpenKneeboard lets you write notes with a Wacom pen and tablet.

What was the content of your posts that got flagged?

I have had that throttle quadrant and yoke, as well as other Saitek gear (now part of the Logitech brand). The throttle quadrant gradually stopped working reliably like yours, with noisy and jittery axis output, and the rest of my Saitek gear also developed issues after just a few years of use. In my experience their build quality is relatively poor, and I no longer own any of their stuff.

That chair is just overkill. A few empty bottles and extra socks is all you need.