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Eh, gimmick for some, sure. For others it's a whole new world that they won't leave. For example, got an Oculus for the gimmick and didn't think I'd be so attached to it, but I cannot go back to playing any flight or racing simulator without it again, it's simply not the same. I tried the new FS2020 briefly on launch, but had to go back to X-Plane as FS2020 still doesn't support VR headsets.


so does x-plane work today on quest 2?


Quest and Quest 2 can play Steam games like Alyx. Since X-Plane is on Steam, I'm going to tentatively say yes. You just need to buy a PC link cable for the Quest. You can get away with a wireless to PC link... but you'll get more lag


Probably not, Quest 2 is basically running mobile hardware right? X-Plane is a fully fledged flight simulator that barely runs on a powerful desktop PC on highest settings. I'm using a Oculus Rift currently.


My understanding is Quest 2 can run Rift games using the optional link cable. But I'm not sure if that means it will take advantage of higher resolution on Quest 2 or whether X-Plane devs have to do something new.


Irrelevant in my case, as getting any Oculus product is out of the question since introducing the new Facebook account requirements.


Why did you say you are using a Rift and then ask if it ran the flight simulator, only to say it is irrelevant to you out of nowhere?


> Why did you say you are using a Rift

Because I am

> ask if it ran the flight simulator

I didn't. I said I use Rift with X-Plane.

What is irrelevant is if Quest runs with X-Plane or not, even if it doesn't.

The original subject of this thread was if VR is a gimmick or not. I initially replied that yeah, for some it's a gimmick and for others there is really no alternative. Now we're plenty off topic here :)


> What is irrelevant is if Quest runs with X-Plane or not, even if it doesn't

Then why ask if the quest runs it?




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