After 5 months of VR with Oculus Quest 2, I finally made the decision to fly with TrackIR on my 49 " screen.
Why ? :
I can finally enjoy top image quality (everything is crisp) without the huge loss of FPS of VR (I can finally play full ULTRA with my 2080 Ti). Long simulation sessions are comfortable. And all that with zero tweaking. I think VR technology is not still ripe enough. Considering my experience on my 49 "screen, I think that TrackIR is superior to VR especially if you have an ultrawide screen or a multiscreen. This is only my opinion.
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Very good to hear that you found a setup that works for you!
For me on the other side, VR is an old dream come true. Sine last December, I fly every day in VR (in fact, I never made a single flight with MSFS that was not in VR), and there is no turning back to 2D.
But in the end only one thing counts: that we enjoy this beautiful and amazing hobby of ours!
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I also gave up reverb g2 for a 65" tv with “diy waist trackir”. It looks great, has hdr, runs smooth at ultra 4k when reverb didn’t, no bugs, no ctd, no crappy wmr. I don’t think i’l really return to vr until oled 4k per eye 150fov, great sweetspot and decent software that just works. I’m tired of compromises. I had original rift cv1, samsung odyssey, quest2 and reverb g2. Except the cv1 which was a novelty, never kept a headset more than 3 months because problems and always returned to a big tv.
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Using Oculus Rift S with Oculus debug SS set to 1.7 and in game res set to 70.
Very crisp and clear for me.
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VR is awesome for immersion but it has a way to go for the visual quality that 2D offers. Hopefully, within the next five years, we will have 16k per eye, affordable haptic tech, and motion simulators. Once we do I think we may well struggle to get out of the sim and into the real world!
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Why? I sold my Rift S for my G2 and the difference is amazing. No more Rift SDE and Wmr is in my opinion superior to Oculus home. Also no facebook intrusion.
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That’s about 64x the number of pixels. Never gonna happen.
Even 4k is 8x current headsets, which by far exceeds increases in hardware performance over that sort of timescale.
I hardly ever use VR now, Its fine for really analogue planes (Spitfire in DCS) and I love it for analogue Rotary (Huey in DCS) they are so much easier to fly in VR! but for anything complicated like the A10 or any of the more complex planes in MSFS I much prefer trackIR, but that may be down to my failing eyesight that is unable to read any of the displays in VR
Then get inserts for your VR Goggles. 
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I did actually get some small frame glasses for exactly that reason, didnt help though!
Then crank up the supersampling of the headset. Reduces performances significantly but increases image clarity. You have to find the sweetspot for your system.
Ah yeah, thats worth a try, I didnt think of that, cheers
You’re right. VR is well suited to the GA planes and those who fly mainly VFR. I hardly ever touch the heavys–or any of the long haul jets. I can’t imagine flying those in VR for very long. My low-and slow kind of flying is so perfectly suited to VR (and to this sim) that I hardly ever fly in flat screen mode anymore.
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I only fly VR 
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Flying the bush trips in VR is a real treat.
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VR technology is fairly ripe, and has been in the consumer mainstream for about 5 years now. The problem is MSFS, which cannot utilize VR at its peak potential because it runs so poorly. Modern VR headsets like the Quest 2 and Reverb 2 look pretty darn good when they’re running at peak resolution and their full 90Hz or 120Hz refresh rate with a matching framerate. MSFS is to VR what a 10 ton trailer is to a sports car. A load.
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If I could get my flatmate to stop watching soppy Korean romances on our slightly older 3D 65" UHD 4k television, I would be tempted to try trackIR in UHD 4K with the 3D emulation enabled. It has done a very good job of converting other games to 3D in the past.
No idea what you mean. Delete delete???
Yeah me too. Couldnt fly my 747 in the heavens without it
If I was mainly into airliners I could understand TrackIR over VR (have had both)…flying GA there is no way I’d go back to Track IR.
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