After several months of teasing, the rather excellent Microsoft Flight Simulator finally has its hotly anticipated VR mode. Giving players a brand new perspective on the picturesque scenery, this mode will obviously require a compatible VR headset and quite the beefy PC to run smoothly.
If you meet the system requirements for the base game, you should be good to go. You may need to drop some of the details even on an RTX 3080, but the trade-off will be that you'll finally get to feel like you're actually flying a plane. The trailer below makes me incredibly jealous and almost has me running off to grab an Oculus Quest 2...almost.
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As for which headsets will work, you probably won't need to worry too much. "Our goal was to make this update accessible to as many VR players as possible," reads an update on Microsoft's website. "To achieve this goal, we have worked to make this free update compatible across a wide range of supported devices, including most Windows Mixed Reality headsets (including the HP Reverb G2), Oculus, Valve, and HTC headsets."
I'm not sure if anyone actually owns the Valve Index, what with its prohibitively expensive $1,000 price tag, but it's great to see the support there. One of the lousiest things about VR is that a lot of titles are locked behind specific equipment, preventing people from experiencing everything they otherwise should be able to. With Flight Simulator, you won't need to worry.
Now if anyone has a spare VR headset they don't need, I'll happily take it off your hands...
Source: Microsoft