One small bug I encounter is that I have to start XPlane without SteamVR running (probably known anyway?).

@Ben Supnik, I’m not sure if saying this is taboo, but rather than reinvent the wheel can’t we just find out how other flight sims (such as DCS) are doing HUD’s? I can tell you for sure that DCS HUD’s work as they should in VR.

Ben, please let me know if it’s inappropriate to reference DCS in this way. Also maybe you all prefer to puzzle it out for yourselves instead of “cheating”, I can respect that too. =)

“You wanna play a game, then use VR. You wanna do serious flight training, forget it.”

Simply not true. It just depends on your use case. Of course, a physical cockpit setup with a dome is higher fidelity, but it is becoming less cost and logistically effective for users to field these systems. VR is starting to replace physical simulators as a training tool in these cases, especially in the field.

Case in point: https://bisimulations.com/company/customer-showcase/vr-based-gunship-crew-trainer

And further, just to show that VR combined with a complex hardware setup is also used in ‘serious flight training’: https://bisimulations.com/company/customer-showcase/vr-based-helicopter-crew-training

There are other interesting cases, but I’ll leave it to you to explore.

I have no idea where you’ve lost fps….but generally 70->15 is a WAY bigger penalty than we see from users turning on VR.

I tried it on a S7 Edge in a gear-vr headset. I have 5ghz network en it is about 200Mbps.

When not moving around very much it is really immersive. Cockpit looks so real. Letters on the radios I can read but not the instrument pannels.

Without vr I have a framerate of arround 70 fps, but as soon as I turn on vr I see on the screen arround 15.

when not moving my head it looks great, but as soon as I move my head it is not fluent at all. and get dizzy in a few minutes. ( I have turned down all my graphics and this is not getting better).

Am I loosing frame rates via riftcat? I would still want to try it so please do not disable

One note: If you haven’t already, please start thinking about products like the Vive Tracker while laying the foundation. It or future generations of it may help considerably with locating your beer (or yoke, I guess) with the headset on.

Hi,

Airfoillabs and XPReality include head movement based on forces in in all axes including turbulences or acceleration.

Although the effects a bit too strong it decouples the head movement nicely from the standard view that is always in sync with the cockpit. The cinema effect in xp does not do the same trick.

Independently from VR this would be a great addition to the core view system.

Yes, I know, I have to always remember to deactivate VR before closing xplane. The problem is that I am old and I do not always remember. I often close Xplane from the menu in VR “close Xplane”.

Maybe it would be better an option in the main menu asking me if I want VR or not. After all, the option that I think is more usual is to load the Xplane from the 2D screen of the operating system.