Really Hate WMR

[Michail71]

I’m used to Virtual Desktop, Rift home and SteamVR, so I’m sure it’s a learning experience but I find I can’t seem to quickly take the headset off and interact with the desktop like I could with the Quest. I get stuck in this “Windows + Y” situation. I just got kicked out of the VR session in the headset while it was still running as such on the monitor. The mouse didn’t work and I was forced to activate a controller so I could relaunch the sim. Which then caused the cliff house to open and a CTD 90 minutes into a flight.

I guess I should tab out of VR first? Is there a way to turn the WMR UI off?

I could list a dozen other things I dislike about WMR but not MSFS related. If Quest comes out with a higher resolution headset I’ll be all over it.

From everything I read, it’s supposed to be a simpler, less intrusive system but I’m finding it to be the opposite.

[ResetXPDR]

I used to have issue like this, so I changed WMR input setting to manual switching and haven’t had the issue since. There is no need to use WIN Y at all using this method, just alt tab out of MSFS, do what you need then alt tab back in.

[Ephedrin87]

same here in DCS, I had to set it to manual so it works automatically. Windows bug, I suppose.

The funny thing is: Win+Y didn’t work either ^^

[Mayhem6633]

@Michail71

The mouse didn’t work and I was forced to activate a controller so I could relaunch the sim.

It is a pain but I have 2 solutions which might help. I leave it on automatic switching in the WMR settings. That works the best for me. It mostly works without issue but like you describe sometimes it gets mixed up and you get stuck in the wrong mouse mode. Instead of removing the headset or turning on a VR controller I do this…

1. I use VoiceAttack to voice control some commands while flying so I set up a command called “win Y” which when I say that it will type “win-y” which switches to the other mouse mode.
2. For the times when I don’t have VoiceAttack running I also program a button on a game controller to type win-y. I picked one button to remain unprogrammed for anything else and dedicated that to typing win-y. I then use the program AntiMicro to program that unused button to type win-y.

In any case. you need something to type win-y for you when you’re in the headset. That’s how I do it.

[Michail71]

Thanks all! I reflew the flight and Alt Tabbed a few times. It takes it a bit for it to get going again but at least it didn’t get stuck in a wrong mode.

I’ll try the suggestions above.

At one point I asked Google to turn the lights up to 100%. Which for some reason caused WMR to respond and start recording video, lol.

[Michail71]

@ResetXPDR

I used to have issue like this, so I changed WMR input setting to manual switching and haven’t had the issue since. There is no need to use WIN Y at all using this method, just alt tab out of MSFS, do what you need then alt tab back in.

That did the trick. I actually expected the opposite behavior given how that was worded.