However, upon first boot, don't take MSFS up on its convenient offer and tap directly into VR. Turning VR on will neatly beam the game's bifocal feed to whatever VR system you have running in the background (SteamVR, Oculus, Windows Mixed Reality) while overtaking your desktop feed with a full-screen preview that, unfortunately, can neither be alt-tabbed out of nor reduced in size or pixel density. VR support begins with a shortcut in the game's top-level menu, letting players know it's just a click away. Setup, mouse cursors, and floating VR menus Honestly, Asobo Studio should've issued these warnings, not me, because this mode is nowhere near retail-ready. Now that users have been formally invited to slap Microsoft Flight Simulator onto their faces, I must strongly urge users not to do so-or at least heavily temper their expectations. Asobo's team assured us that the incomplete VR mode was running well-but of course, we're all on edge about game-preview assurances as of late. But even for a video call, it looked choppy. This is never an ideal way to show off VR, in part because the platform requires high refresh rates for comfortable play, which can't be smoothly sent in a pandemic-era video call. This summer, ahead of the game's final-stretch beta test, the developers at Asobo Studio used a screen-share feature in a video call to tease the VR mode to us at Ars Technica. Whether you play the game via Steam or the Windows Store, you can now take advantage of 'OpenXR' calls to seemingly any PC-VR system on the market, aided by an 'enable/disable VR' keyboard shortcut at any time. After over a year of requests from fans and enthusiasts, and months of official teases, Microsoft Flight Simulator has a virtual reality mode.

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