5 Ultra Realistic VR Games you can PLAY RIGHT NOW! 

You know someone plays too much ED if they’ve seen Earth 😂

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Rixster speaks the truth, its incredible

Too bad you cannot use it with Tracked Controllers....

@@Fluxikator there was a mod for it…it’s AWEFUL. There are 50+ button controls you need to use on a regular basis, which means picking up and putting down the controllers A LOT.

That sounds absolutely amazing! Would you be willing to tour me on the game on the co-op if I picked the game up? Does VTOL also have physical switches like FS4?

What type of games did you play on flat screen?

yea makes it hard to go back to a flat screen, after playing dirt 2.0 in VR i cant play racing games that dont support VR anymore, likewise after playing games like cyyberpunk 2077 VR and mechwarrior 5 VR (VR is community mod) its hard to consider playing these games outside of VR, especially for mech5 once you try it with a heap of cinematic and visual mods, it looks good flat with these mods, but in VR its like you just hot dropped into a movie, the immersion is mind blowing, but also starts to kill you PC performance as well :P.

I still enjoy the traditional screen gaming, but I get your point 100%. Just wait until they have a fully immersive experience; strapped in a vest tethered to a run-in-place treadmill-like machine. Now THAT would be huge. The issue now is our boundaries are limited by the places we live in

I get what you're coming from. For me Half life Alyx was the game that hit hard. I went into it not expecting much but in the end it was one of the best gaming experiences I have ever had. VR has great potential

​@@JINGWA64 Which VR headset did you use for dirt rally if you don't mind me asking? Thinking of getting one for that very purpose.

Pls share your pc specs and vr headset name.

@@vikrantchauhan7355 I am very experienced in PCVR, I know the best headsets and best specifications for a PC that can power PCVR. Couple questions, what's your budget for the headset and the PC? What games do you want to play, and do you want to play them on ultra graphics settings? What average refresh rate do you want to play the PCVR games on and do you care about hand-tracking features?

@@cashdoo Actually I bought a used 3090 at the price of 4060 with 1 year warranty left.... I am currently using R7 5800x , 32 gb ram , asrock x570... Then I was just scrolling on RU-vid and discovered DCS... So I ordered a thrustmaster warthog hotas and vkb rudder padels... it's the only one available in India.... Winwing costs double the amount.... Now I am confused if I should buy a poco 4 , quest or hp reverb g2..... I want to play DCS, MSFS , warthunder, etc... I just want a good experience with no fluctuations...if my current system can support ultra graphics that will be cherry on top... I have no experience in VR so I don't know about the refresh rate... But the higher the fps the better will be the experience I think.

@@vikrantchauhan7355 For the headset I can recommend HTC Vive Pro 2, very comfortable, high resolution, though my setup can't really run above 80%, but then again I haven't tested the quest 3's for example. I hear they're quite comfortable and there's no need for the lighthouses the vive needs so you can play with them virtually anywhere as they do have built in hardware to play games, but if you want to play PCVR you'll have to have a pc to run the games for you in those situations.

Bro should i start with Quest 2? budget reasons and will Quest 2 run good sims?

​@@GullySyde28 Quest 3 is a massive step up in screen quality and clarity. It is also more powerful for standalone games. After going to the Quest 3, I just can't recommend the Quest 2. I'd personally save and wait.

@@james3244 Thank you so much for the reply. I will take that advice and start saving, :) appreciate it James thanks friend 🙏

Fantastic game ! Waiting for le Mans Ultimate ro support vr!

Good one! I still have to try out ETS 2 myself. I have the vr headset and the steering wheel, just have to find myself the time to play it! But good addition! thanks for the comment!

@@laubox don't make my mistake! this game first repels you with its slowness and meaninglessness, and then completely absorbs you with these same properties XD

It'll probably change somewhat when I get my Beyond but ATS has completely taken over MSFS for my relaxing sim time. It's cut into my race sim time too. If you have motion, probably because the motion is so subtle you almost forget about it, it's really jarring when you suddenly almost tip over from a hard turn, or accidentally wrap your trailer around something while reckless driving.

I have 100s of hours in ETS2, the graphics can be improved with mods..its an amazing sim

True, it's fun to play in VR. But I would add some mods to it, as the vanilla version does lack a bunch. Like more realistic driver behaviours, more different cars, denser traffic in certain locations. Also, with newer locations, it can be a drain on the VR a bit, depending on your setup. So while some sections might run really good, you might have a delivery where you come accross sections where you notice some framedrops (with slight naussea as a cause). It's always a bummer though, when you want to discover more, but you come accross a blockage. But that's the nature of things, as things are made to scale. Can't have every road and location in there. I'm hoping they'll implement their new engine soon. I don't know if they were going to convert ETS2 to that, or that they'll just release a ETS3. I have been a truck-driver for a while in the past. I quit that job, because of how much stress it gave and got sleep-deprived quite quickly. Mainly because of poor planning of the planners, and rude and dangerous behaviour from other road users (yes, truck drivers aren't the problem on the roads, more like the regular drivers). So it is funny I play ETS2 from time to time, to relax. Because in some ways, I do miss driving a truck. I liked the roads as a challenge, not so much the other road users. It was a nice challenge, keeping your 40+ ton wheight going, while 'climbing' a hill, of even the opposite, making sure you kept you speed down, while 'gliding' downhill. Or driving a small bendy road through woods. What I don't miss, other people cutting you off, and even having the odacity to break or slow down before you. Or trying to hit you with their car, while you are offloading your cargo.

ye i use to think elden ring was one of the hardest game i played till i sit in the cockpit on DCS and realized man elden ring is for babies. i hope today i can manage to be in the air.

The learning curve is there, but my recommendation is to just take your time for it! Don't rush things and it will be alright. The learning is actually the fun part of DCs in my opinion

​@laubox Can DCS be played with a PS5 controller? I really would love to play this in vr but I don't have HOTAS

Make sure to get low fidelity aircraft if you do. Generally easier compared to stuff like the F/A-18 which is 1:1 with the real jet.

​​@@carbon301you could play it with a controller but I would really recommend a cheap HOTAS. It's much easier to fly your plane with a HOTAS.

It's not that bad. Just pick one airframe and learn it and take your time. Enjoy the learning experience. It's really part of the fun.

Well yeah, the resolution is a bit less! But sure you can make it like this.

Thats a difficult question to answer. It all comes down to something called the 'Pixel Shader Pipeline' ... you don't just have a high-res image of some bricks. You also have a high res image that represents the surface shape (all the roughness, depth and surface detail) ... then you have a high res image that represents shininess... because brick isn't just one material, there are particle of metals and minerals in there that are either more or less glossy and reflective - so you have an image that represents where these qualities exist in the brick. Then there's things like 'fresnel effect' that tells how light reacts with a material at different angles ... and there's subsurface scattering - some parts of an object allow light to penetrate the surface, bounce around, and come back out, giving a sort of depth of glow - such as skin, rubber, etc. So, there are a LOT of textures for each piece of an object. Each one describing how parts of the object react to light. Then, there are some other inputs that are not textures. All the lights in the scene, their qualities, colours, positions, etc ... the location of the camera... depth of field... fog... there can be dozens of other inputs that change how the object will be rendered. Lastly, there's a sort of supertexture... the 'skybox'. This is a HUGE texture that (ideally) represents the entire scene centred on the object. This allows the object to reflect light from it's environment... sometimes clearly like a mirror, or sometimes just as a colour influence. We can bake lighting such as streetlamps and the sun or moon into the skybox too. Using the skybox we can see all the external influences of a pre-rendered environment on the object. Lastly there's raytracing. Where light is tracked as it bounces off objects, changing it's properties as it reflects and refracts from surface to surface. Raytracing is costly, but very effective. Putting all of these dozens of high-res images, skyboxes, raytaces, and inputs together... is a big block of scary math designed to run on a graphics card... it's called the 'shader'. It computes the final colour and intensity of each pixel - as it would be seen by the eye of the viewer at some known point in space. For 3D games, we have to do all of this twice, once for each eye. Each material or object might have its own specialised shader... or, sometimes, one very clever general shader that can simulate almost any material will be used for all, or most, of the objects in a scene. It's often something called a PBR shader (They're Physics Based and very flexible). The shader combines all of the properties of each texture pixel (texel) of the object, with the lighting in the scene, the direction of view and other factors - and returns what the material would look like under those conditions. It does this advanced mathematics for every pixel, separately. The result, when done right, can be absolutely breathtaking. It is the shader that brings the graphics to life. Older games with cartoonish graphics, can be completely reformed into highly photoreal games - often by just changing the shaders and supplying a LOT more information. In older games, the only information provided was the colour of each part of the object - but, modern games, specify everything about the materials properties and how it will react to other light in the scene. So, you don't need to reprogram an older game... but you do need to replace the shaders with modern PBR shaders and then have your artists create additional textures for every single item in your game. That is a lot of work, since there will be maybe 12x as many textures as the original game... and they will be huge. 12 or more textures at 4096 x 4096, for each object, isn't unusual. You would usually have to upgrade the polygon count too, although not always. One of the jobs of shaders is to make an object look like it has more polygons (triangles) than it actually does. Ultimately, there has to be a tradeoff - and so we cheat wherever we can ; ) Games development is the subtle art of cheating and taking shortcuts. Doing it right could take hours per frame... to get ithe rendering time down to 60 frames a second, we cheat like mad. We pre-calculate a lot of things (pretty much anything that can be pre-calculated WILL be pre-calculated. We reuse the same data from frame to frame... we update distant objects less often and draw them with decreased texture sizes and poly-counts. We use pre-rendered groups of objects called 'goblins'. Most of the art of real-time GFX is all about cheating to keep the pre-frame math to a minimum. Google PBR and Pixel Shaders for more info.

those are PCVR so yes, you need high end PC/laptop to play them

The most realistic games are going to be on PC VR for at least a few more years.

They’re PCVR exclusive unfortunately. The quest 3, although getting better, just cant get this kind of quality and resolution on its own.

You can with PC and a Steam account.

If you want ultra realistic you need a PC.

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Well yes, for starters Gran Turismo 7 isn't on PC, it's exclusive to PSVR2 which is VR headset for PlayStation 5. Kayak Mirage is available on the Quest 2 store so it will run without a PC, but the best version is the Steam VR version which is PC only.

Pretty sure warthunder is very compatible

but you don't

@@Thiagoofficial85 um…. K?

warthunder looks better imo, just cuz its smooth af

Try it and then tell us. Many people talks to vr with no idea

I tried SW Squadron with Quest3 and obly in the ship itself ot's a great depth perception but outside all the things are small and pixelated. I recomment playing with a low res headset only games like HL Alyx, Hubris... Where you are close to the environment and the depth perception is better.

Pac-Man

Yes ! Try Automobilista 2

yep

Of course

Absolutely not true, Kayak is almost photo realistic. You're either trolling or you're running it on Quest 2 with a potato PC. You need a powerful PC to run Kayak at max settings.