I have to agree as someone whos been around since DK1 also.
Sometimes I find myself just wanting to get in really quickly to briefly check something in sim and get out.
Simply jumping in to a VR session especially the nature of flight sims can be exhausting.
Seating position, hardware position with seating. Launching a sim in VR after making sure all your other programs ducks are in a row.
For example I mod GTAV and FSX a ton for VR. Which requires frequent little minor adjustments to meta code values in the games file system and of course ini/cfg config values for FSX. Alot of times I find myself too lazy to throw the headset on just to check on results from such tweaking and would rather just fire the game on the 2d monitor.
That is also the issue that turned alot of folks off from VR, the process of finally sitting inside of a session after the involving launch of the specific game/sim and tracking position you are in physically. My FSX VR launching process alone would def appear too complex or time consuming for some users.
Get my simming seating and hardware(yoke/rudder setup) in front of me.
Make sure all yoke/throttle controls are set in to proper position.
Launch Rex
Launch Active Sky
Launch FSX Shade
Launch Flyinside click through those que windows.
Create a flight inside of the hmd.
Load flight(endure flight loading time)can take 1-2 minutes depending on the scenery or aircraft systems complexity.
Finally load into flight and enjoy VR.
Depending on my sim load time this can easily be a 5-7 minute process every time I wanna hop into a VR flight session.
Lets hope the new sim is a little quicker and less complex to finally hop in VR, but then again that’s just the nature of flight simming and also using a ton of external addon component software like Rex,Active Sky, etc etc.
Honestly as of right now one can easily find themselves impatient and annoyed sitting in front of the loading screen of MSFS on a 2D monitor. Just to briefly test something minor like a tweak or new addon out in sim.