So I decided to give it a try and switch from VD and SteamVR. Man pretty impressed in the color depth and smoothness of the immersion. More than what i was getting with VD and SteamVr.
So to make it work i had to do the following:
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Default everything in Oculus Tray Tool and remove all presets I had. If you don’t do this the first time you enter Airlink it will be VERY BAD like you are swimming in water and black outlines everywhere. Using Oculus Debug Tool make sure if NVIDIA gpu set the encoding bitrate back to 0.
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Change my registry to point back to the Oculus from the Steam Vr settings. If you don’t do this every VR session will bring up SteamVR when switching to a VR session in MSFS2020. You no longer need SteamVR to run.
Changed registry back to C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-runtime\oculus_openxr_64.json
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Once connected via Airlink go to the Oculus DEVICES and change graphics to 90hz.
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in the Airlink setings in the headset once connected leave my connection bitrate to default of variable.
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Not sure why i lose audio in the haedset once switch to VR mode in MSFS2020 but I just have to go into WIn 10 Sound settings and make my audio output the headset and reverse it back when I am done with my MSFS2020 gameplay for the day. The one think I liked about VD was the audio would seemlessly transfer to the headset. AIrlink does not.
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One more issue I most likely created for myself was in the past I had changed the Oculus program to run as adminstrator but doing so causes an issue where the AIRLINK slider in settings/Beta would revert everytime I close out the Oculus program. Removing the run as admin the shortcut properties allowed it to stay on.
I have have my VR settings in MSFS2020 to 100 scaling and medium settings and so far so good.