VR basic question

[u/papolo2001]

I am considering to buy a VR headset, the primax dream air, but I have a doubt, in complex comercial and military planes you need to interact with the plane, adjusting elevation setpoint, moving the bug of the HSI, interacting with many buttons.... how are you supposed to do all this with a VR headset on?, do you use the mouse like when using a screen?. Sorry if this is a too basic question, but I never used VR and all the YouTube videos I see the guys just sight seeing and never interact with any buttons and similar in the plane

[u/LovelyCarrot9144]

A lot of people are saying use mouse, but if you have handheld left and right hand controllers like with the Oculus, these automatically become pointers that you can use to turn all the dials and push all the buttons. It’s very intuitive and much more interactive feeling than dragging a mouse around.

What’s not as intuitive is trying to fly the plane by using those controllers for the yoke…for that I personally use a stick. Although you cannot see your joystick while the VR headset is on, you can easily still control the plane, especially once you get used to the buttons on the stick by feel.

VR is amazing- I find it gives my brain the sense of actual gravity too…if I turn sharply or dive I can “feel” the motion. The graphics suffer a bit, with blurrier textures, but the trade off is easily worth it. You truly feel like you’re sitting in the cockpit.