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I've set up a button on my joystick to toggle the VR mouse pointer and another to bring up the settings window. If my VR controllers don't work properly, or stop working, I can get to the settings window and reconfigure my controllers. Normally I run with my mouse pointer turned off, but I can quickly turn it on in cases where I need it.

Can you please make a tutorial video on how to live stream the VR with WEB camera etc. I am using Pico4 with Virtual Desktop and i don't know how can i live stream in OBS. THANKS!!

How do you get openxr to be used by X-plane.

Thanks for the video. Im using tbe vr tools plug in.is there anyway to to bind the left right forward backwards up and down to my tca hat switch.moving your seating position using the vr tools arrow keys is painfully slow cheers

For those who are wondering "EFB" stands for "Electronic Flight Bag".

VR definitely needs more love in XP12. Because of this I tend to spend more time in XP11 VR, where controllers work better, graphics are crisper and FPS is higher.

I'm a retired software developer. I've also used gdb on Linux to help Laminar debug issues. They appreciated the extra info! I do all my open-source X-Plane development on MacOS and Linux, including compiling plugins for Windows on Linux. If VR had the same performance on Linux, I'd fly VR mostly under Linux instead of Windows. I've noted flatscreen performance seems to be the same between Linux and Windows. Valve needs to improve their Linux VR support.

I hope Laminar is receiving good feedback from VR users during 12.1.0 alpha. Sadly they've been ignoring VR issues, so much so that I typically fly 11.55 far more than I do 12.0.9. I realize VR is a niche market thus far, but a harvest left unattended will wither on the vine.

Looks like a good accessory. How is the Glare when night flying? Thanks for your vids mate and cheers.

Howdy! Try adding the soft cross-strap to the Beyond audio strap. A couple of small binder clips will keep it from sliding back and forth. I think it makes the audio strap even more comfortable by moving what little weight there is to the top of your head.

the strap looks really nice. very excited for my beyond to come in the mail.

Hi I used this tool to find Toliss AirbusFBW Datarefs which are not published and are are not picked up by the Dataref Editor. All the Datarefs you show here are integers or floats and I have had no probs in setiing them from an external program. However many of the AirbusFBW datarefs visibie in the DataRef Tool just say 'activate'. Without knowning what activate means internally, it's hard to enter a program value that changes the Dataref state. Do you have any information perhaps?

The headphones remind me of the Koss Porta Pro

👍looks very well made

Looks sick! looking like you’re from the future!

Looks great mate, thanks for sharing this. For me, I'll wait for BSB to come out with a more universal, glasses-friendly facial interface with manual IPD adjustment. Also, maybe larger micro-oled panels (curent ones are limited to 1.5in). Of course, a wireless option would also be very nice, lol! The new Pimax headset look promising but still way too big imho. Until then I'll just live with my QPro with Link cable for sims and my Q3 for wireless PCVR using Air Link for everything else. As much as I've love my +4.5yo Vive Pro 1 for night flying (amoled screens, Etsy lens mod, 2x2.0 base stations, and Index controllers), its low res (1600x1400) screens poor clarity and high SDE are now pretty hard to live with so It's starting to collect a bit of dust.

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Still enjoying your BigScreen Beyond headset?

How do you ad the openxr tag to the command line exactly

How do you get that floating window that shows the text file and web browser to show up?

Congratulations on the video friend. What do I think about the quality of the bigscreen? Which video card do you use? Thanks

In VR I've noticed the "home button" at the bottom of the XPAD is sensitive to 3D mouse cursor left button clicks but it is not sensitive to VR controller trigger presses. It's annoying. I added a custom manipulator positioned directly above the home button in my BD-5J aircraft, but that only works for my plane. If I want to click the XPAD home button in any other plane, I have to haul out the 3D mouse cursor.

Sparker , you have no idea how you help me. I use flight simulators since 1999 and you have a lot more experience than me for sure. I was trying to speed up the radio controls for Toliss A320 and than I saw this video and start tweaking the airplane. Now is working perfectly! thanks for sharing this one. I'm really appreciated

By the way, thanks for the heads up on the XP12 changes to the VR config file!

Hey Sparker. Before I invest in a Bigscreen Beyond, I wanted to see what the smaller FOV looked like relative to my Valve Index. So I "PDQ modified" my HeadLamp XPlane plugin to add "blinders" on the edges of my vision matching the documented FOV. The vertical FOV is noticeably tighter, but not too bad! The horizontal FOV is about the same. Does that agree with your experience?

This is awesome man, wow. I am getting into flight sim's and did my discovery flight a few months ago. Do you find this to be easier or more superior (in VR) rather then using physical sim gear? Any tips?

I like the bigscreen beyond but there is no possibility for mixed reality and that is a dealbreaker for me.

I waited and saved almost a year for this, and it is just insanely uncomfortable on my right eye socket, no matter how I arrange the head band, carved some right eye piece foam out and it still puts intense strain on the right eye, the left feels awesome, the visuals are great, i just can't play any longer than an hour, the IPD and scanning may leave something to be desired

This headset must be so comfortable, I'm a Quest2 and now 3 user, and Its almost impossible to be more than 1h inside the headset

Thanks for sharing your unboxing experience! It's great to see your enthusiasm. Videos like these are awesome!

In my setup, I have fashioned two small flat wooden platforms on either side of my wooden swivel chair to support my HOTAS. At the back of these platforms, I placed two small hooks. I fastened tie wraps to the bottom of my Valve Index VR controllers to form a loop which can grab these hooks. So I use muscle memory to take my VR controllers off the hooks and put them back when they aren't needed. This allows me to switch my grasp easily between HOTAS and VR controllers.

can you use it without base stations and use 3 degrees of freedom instead of 6? i wanna play sim racing so ill be sitting and only moving my head around and not my whole body

Have you tried it with DCS and IL2 Sturmovik? Please tell me, how many fps do you achieve and if the objectives are seen well in the distance, what resolution do you have at 90 fps, can you compare it with the Varjo?

Have you tried it with DCS and IL2 Sturmovik? Please tell me, how many fps do you achieve and if the objectives are seen well in the distance, what resolution do you have at 90 fps, can you compare it with the Varjo?

Nice video, can anyone tell me where I can buy the headstrap adapter for alternative straps

Thanks for the insightful video, can you tell me where to get the headstrap adapter

Have you tried it with DCS and IL2 Sturmovik, please tell me about it.

Another question, how do you display your desktop and pilot2atc window inside VR? Always so annoying to take off the headset to access other apps. Searched the web for it and found something about OXR Toolkit, but I don't think that's what you're using. Thank!

Very interesting, thanks again! I wonder, with 24GB VRAM, why are you having XP's texture quality "only" on high? If I'm not totally wrong, it shouldn't make a difference in performance, only VRAM usage.

Have you tried using this setup with XP11? I have found the performance of XP11 is almost twice as fast as XP12 in VR.

Watched the first 35 minutes so far. Very interesting, thanks! : ) I don't think you mentioned (sorry if I should have missed it), are you using reprojection/motion smoothing?

20:00 could the sharpness in one eye but not the other be due to the IPD being slightly off? I'm using a free app from the Google Play store to measure my IPD to make the Bigscreen Beyond

I've got a Valve Index. I enjoy using it, but I'd like more resolution and less screen-door effect. I've been considering a Bigscreen Beyond, Varjo Aero or Pymax Crystal. I haven't decided on one, but the Bigscreen does look tempting.

I wear glasses, but not sure if I need the inserts, as I mostly have trouble with long-distance?

Congratulations. Your patience finally paid off! Please update with a personal review in a few days ;)

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Not sure how much interest there is for this headset now because i hardly hear anything about it any more. I think the lens glare killed most of the interest people had in it.

Damn, that looks great (and tiny)! Can't wait to hear about your experience using it, especially with XP12, of course. Guess you'll drop a few lines on the forum about it soon. : )