When you find yourself smiling from ear-to-ear as you look out the window of your favorite plane while you flyover familiar landmarks and remember you ar not a pilot, and this is a flightsim. Some of my wow moments in VR flying were when I flew from Anchorage Alaska to Kodiak Island Alaska. I have made this flight in real life many times as a passenger on Alaska Airlines. As I took off from Anchorage and the TBM-930 started bouncing from the turbulence (the effect in VR) that was my first WoW! I continued climbing to altitude and the snow capped moutians came into view with the clouds and the sun (the effects in VR) that was my second WoW! I then started to notice ice forming on the wings and windows (the effect in VR) my third Wow! I have been flying Sims since the green screen days, if you dont know what the means, see if you can find images of the very first MSFS 🤣. I have invested/wasted alot of time and money in this flightsim hobby, but it's the moments I described above that make it worth for me. I retired after 30yrs in the US Coast Guard, I do not have a youtube channel nor am I affliated with or sponsored by any companies. What I do have is a love of flight and a passion for VR. If I can be helpful in anyway to anyone in this hobby...feel free to reach out.
I have a Quest 2 also. I found the image to be too blurry too read the cockpit clearly. I think the Quest 3 is better in that regard, but I don't have that. Also, you shouldn't need the cable to play. You can stream wirelessly to the headset. That said, though VR is immersive, I kind of prefer the the physical cockpit due to needing to see the controls. It was best, for me, on simple aircraft like the Piper Super Cub where I could feel for the controls.
@@flightsimdeskuk yea I agree with this assessment. I did some more flying last night. I want for the be experience to be more awesome than it is. I can’t read the cockpit instruments and it’s a pain feeling around for controls and buttons. Mixed reality with a better headset might fix the issue and make for a better immersive experience. But I think overall it might come down to having more monitors to use and having the physical cockpit. Not VR.
Quest2 is not a good choice for VR. The Quest3, or the Pimax Crystal Light, I own both and flying in VR once setup properly it's hard to go back and fly 2D. (you need a pretty powerful computer). I mainly play MSFS, DCS, VTOL VR. Setup can be a pain because of all the different PC configurations, but once you get it setup...WOW!! My rig: I7 12th gen, 64GB ram, 2TB SSD, 4060TI 8GB. In my experience, an 8GB video is not enough, hopefully I can upgrade to a 16GB graphics card soon.
@@greaper1878 awesome thanks! Just curious about the pc specs, those are pretty beefed up, is the additional horsepower all around necessary or do you think a Quest 3 and pc with 32 gb RAM, i9, and GeForce 3080 would do the trick?
@@flightsimguides I was almost ready to return my Pimax Crystal Light, and use my Quest3 until I could figure something out. The Quest3 with your setup and the link cable should be a great starting point for VR flight. Once I got the Pimax Crystal setup correctly...for me nothing else comes close. The Quest3 I feel is the sweet spot for consumer VR, it has some of the best stand alone VR games/apps that you can play right now, and for non-flight sim stuff it is my daily driver. I have the PSVR1, the PSVR2, the Rift S, the Quest2, the Quest3, and now the Pimax Crystal Light. I have tried the PSVR2 PC adapter, and once again setup for me was a pain in the A$$, but once working it was a great PC VR experience. I would not run out and buy PSVR2 just for PC gaming because that was an after thought by Sony, if you are seriously into PC VR flight simming then go for the Pimax Crystal Light or at a minimum the Quest3. Hopefully this long winded response helped a little😄
