Hi there,

i just jumped into VR ORift. I feel kinda indifferent as i came from an FullHD Beamer+TrackIR+EZDOK. The part of VR i like is the real 3D and the immersion of flying IN am aircraft.  Most impressive is flying helicopters and the Paramotor by Franz Luftfahrt. Flying the fighter jets is kinda fun too. But here comes the parts i dont like in VR. Going low and fast can slow down the performance when using high GFX settings. Going down with the graphics breaks the immersion. Going heavy with the NGX might end up with an OOM. The worst part of VR is certainly the screen door effect. For me it feels like im looking through a pair of Oakley goggles coated with a very light layer of fog.

Despite all that a 2D-whatever-high-dev-100.000 inch-TV-screen cant give you the immersion of a real VR 3D cockpit and the feeling of flying. What i felt in certain flight conditions under VR it felt (for my brain) like being in the aircraft. I do fly in the real world so my brain knows how it feels. So i would say VR flying is nearly 1:1 real flying in terms of feeling. Last not least im satisfied with the overall performance although im still in the testing phase.

I hope that soon things like screen door effect and/or low performance will be history.

@Andreas Stangenes So you can change views with Opus? ChasePlane at the moment has problems with Flyinside as far as I read. Maybe I will contact you VR guys with questions the next days :-D

I'm going against the grain here. I've had both. Love the rift in concept. It's amazing you're in the cockpit, but fov isn't great, feels like wearing blinders, resolution isn't good (blurry), having to tweak for and adjust for stutters is annoying. I also got headaches after long term use. Another thing is the mura effect which almost every rift suffers from. I've looked through almost 10 different headsets and they all suffered from mura. Mura will almost appear like a smudge on the lens that can not be cleaned. Annoying to say the least.  In the end it's pretty nice and has potentional, but as of right now it's in it's infancy. I sold the rift after about a year. I bought a 55 inch 4K and couldn't be happier. So crystal clear and smooth, I use my Trackir and it's amazing. Owned both and in the end went with the 4K monitor. If you're into serious flight training and use charts and gauges that live outside the headset the rift could interfere. 

What model of Rift did you have since you say you had it for a year before you sold it?