Go VR man
Reverb or Oculus.
Well the VR update for MSFS came out today. I just did a circuit at my home base, it’s a completely different experience, overall much for the better. Just wow in fact, with a couple of caveats.
I use it with a Reverb G2, Honeycomb yoke, Saitek throttle quadrant, and Thrustmaster rudder pedals. I have the elevator trim set up on the left yoke up/down switches.
Mostly the immersion is excellent, although there is no motion controller functionality. I use a mouse to point to do things like the strobes, pitot heat, parking brake and flaps etc, as I’m not familiar enough with the various controller settings I set up: with the headset on, you’d have to fumble about blindly, thus I use the mouse instead.
When setting up the journey, no on screen keyboard comes up so you have to lift the headset to find and use the physical keyboard.
Machine is a stock i7-8700k, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVME SSD and RTX 2080 TI, Asrock Z370 Gaming ITX/ac mobo, all in a tiny Sliger SM560 mini ITX case.
The frame rate isn’t particularly special, but the VR immersion far outweighs running it on a monitor for me, and I am using the out of the box settings.
I burst out laughing while taxiing off the runway after landing, when my cat started tapping me on the shoulder looking for some attention: the immersion was such that it felt like someone was sitting in the back tapping me on the shoulder.