If you're ready for the next step in Microsoft Flight Simulator then today is the day, as Flight Sim VR is now available.
With VR capabilities, players will be able to step directly into the pilot seat and take in the breathtaking views surrounding them. With the added inclusion of winter weather effects, you can fully embrace the coming home for Christmas feeling with the latest update.
To gain access to the VR portion, players simple need to download the free update - and Microsoft has said it's accessible for most players available on most Windows Mixed Reality headsets (including the HP Reverb G2), Oculus, Valve, and HTC headsets:
"Microsoft Flight Simulator was built from the ground up to achieve three key goals: realism, accuracy, and authenticity of flight. Today, we’re excited to share that Virtual Reality for Microsoft Flight Simulator is now available on your favorite VR headset for PC, offering simmers the deepest and most immersive virtual flight experience in the new simulator to date."
Microsoft Flight Simulator was already an incredibly immersive game (and one of the highlights of the Xbox Game Pass for PC lineup), and the addition of VR undoubtedly adds an extra degree to it all.
Will you be diving into Microsoft Flight Simulator's VR update? Let us know in the comments below.
[source news.xbox.com]
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Microsoft might support VR but I'm a console gamer and Xbox still has failed to add VR on Xbox ....lol
I can't totally understand MS hesitance to jump in to console VR after all everyone regards the kinect as an expensive failure and PSVR isn't doing as well as the kinect but....
Surely letting us use any "inside out" headset nicely side steps the financial risk on their part (plus pretty friendly for folk with VR already), they don't even have to make any VR games themselves at first, they can judge just how much VR they want based on actual usage.
Gonna build my new PC on christmas day and fire this bad boy up. 5900X, RTX3090, and SSDs faster than PS5, destroying everything I want. Was waiting on the VR patch, so now I'll buy it as I'll never support gamepass.
PSVR has sold some 5M units as of a year ago and who knows how it did this year within pandemic. I have it for my PS4 Pro and while it is not PC quality graphics, SW Squadrons on it is still pretty amazing. Microsoft has no foundation with VR to build on, so it would be from scratch. What I think would be best is to get the XBox Series S/X to be able to run an existing VR solution, much like a PC. Got the Oculus 2? With the VR patch, you can use it with the XBox Series X. That sort of thing.
Still waiting on VR to be added. I run an Oculus Rift Cv1 on my PC with a 580 8GB with zero issues. If it can handle it, so can the Series X.
Skyrim VR should be available in Game Pass as soon as the Bethesda acquisition is processed. I assume they haven't added it already because that would require a new contract.
1st-party VR headset support is an investment. But I don't understand why Microsoft will not allow 3rd-party VR headsets on Xbox.
@orionreplay
“Microsoft has no foundation with VR to build on”
Microsoft has deeper foundations on a way more complicated and cutting edge technology called Mixed Reality & Holographics (Hololens series) which is widely used commercially like heavy industries and military. Anybody can make VR headsets from cardboard cutouts.
@hallower1980 remember Bethesda also did Fallout 4 VR that was meant to come to the One X too, untill it didn't. That should be on gamepass too.
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