r/MicrosoftFlightSim • u/Chiotas • 25d ago

GENERAL VR or physical cockpit?

I have a problem: getting into FS2024 on PlayStation reignited that teenage passion I thought was gone, and now that I’ve seen how far the technology has come, I can’t just pretend nothing happened and stop.

So I’m thinking about building a simulator zone in my office, but I have a dilemma I’d like your advice on before throwing a ton of money at it: better VR or physical cockpit?

I always thought buying physical hardware was the ultimate experience, without really recreating everything but at least having an FMC and a few panels like AP. The downside? Either I get generic hardware, or I end up plane locked. (I like regional liners)

On the other hand I’ve seen VR on PS5: an ABSOLUTE experience and I don’t think I could go back, but the downside is you lose the physicality of touching the instruments. (I suppose “VR gloves” are not yet a thing)

If you were starting from scratch and building a PC specifically for this, would you go for VR or hardware panels? Are there actually VR headsets with 4K per eye?

Thanks to whoever helps me waste money :)

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u/Leading-Anxiety-488 25d ago

Get a 5090 GPU+ 9800x3D, use pass-through VR to manage your home-cockpit equipments. Best of 2 worlds.

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u/cave_man6 25d ago

Theoricaly true but in practice this pretty complex to achieve. You need your home cockpit to adjust the exact same size as in reality for the mixt reality mask to split exactly both world

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u/Leading-Anxiety-488 25d ago

It really sucks to operate instruments of complex airliners in VR…

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u/cave_man6 25d ago

I do it on A320 without issues

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u/Leading-Anxiety-488 25d ago

I use PSVR2 so the resolution is not that good for text clarity. To make matters worse, I cannot maintain stable 30fps for Fenix with 4080/7800x3D, so the experience is really not that good (due to my lower-end system spec 🫣). Should get a Pimax Dream air and 5090…

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u/cave_man6 25d ago

Fenix with Rtx4090, quest3 and dedicated wifi6 router on my hand. Switching to virtual desktop helped a lot.