I am using a Meta 2 right now, buying a Meta 3 soon. If I have a glass cockpit, I cant see ANY instrument . For that matter, also in PC mode either. How do you do this? I fly through steam.
Are the instruments black or low resolution?
They are in color and good resolution. Just small and hard to see even though I have perfect vision.
Forget DLSS, only TAA will work for glass cockpits. No matter what you do, change new DLSS settings etc. Only TAA will get the full glass cockpit resolution.
You’ll get away with it for some aircraft, the Fenix A320 for example with a Quest 3, provides a very readable glass cockpit.
Where I struggle more and have to lean in a bit, is with the G1000Nxi aircraft, such as the SWS Kodiak 100. Particularly the “pink” text on the black background can be tough to read.
While I agree that TAA will generally give you the clearest cockpit details, I’ve found that dlss/balanced is almost as clear if I add 1.20x super sampling (pixel density = 1.20, top of ODT file). This works for me with both Link and Air Link. I prefer dlss/balanced because it gives me the smoothest, stutter-free performance and fewer distant shimmering. Like everything PCVR, your results may vary, lol!
Yikes! While I am now using a Meta 3, guys… I am a artist, musician and writer. So. TOTALLY ignorant on all this techy stuff. Not to mention I’m almost 60and never played video games of any kind. I have flown real airplanes, but cant afford it anymore. So I built a fight sim. which was confusing enough. So far, I just use the flight school stuff. I also have x plane 12 ( even worse for confusing MSFS is so much better) But I don’t understand any of what you guys said. I try to research all this but get more confused. Its funny as in real world flying , its so easy. I totally instantly understood dynamics of flight etc. I was a real life ship Captain. ir and water are similar. I LOVED complicated handling of large ships. I owed and lived n a Tugboat. My first real 172 landing was in a 20 knot crosswind in rain. I LOVED it ! plus I find landng super easy for some reason. I just 'get it" while I actually hate take offs. Only bad landing I ever had was in the sim in a AB NEO. Porposed the ■■■■thing. totally messed up the round out and flare. Real life, no issues ever. I actually love a crab or side slip landing. So much fun. I love the challenge. But this computer stuff? UGHHHHHH like I am braindead.
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In the sim graphic settings, there is one for anti-aliasing. That has options for DLSS, TAA, and a few others. That is where you need to set it to TAA. DLSS will render the sim at a lower resolution, then upscale it to the headset resolution, which can lead to blurry text (it’s like zooming in on a picture can make the finer details look out of whack). Also, make sure you set this in the VR settings. At the top of the graphics settings menu, you can switch between PC and VR, as they have independent settings.
Then there is also the interface settings, which would be either the Oculus app on your computer, or Virtual Desktop. It’s generally agreed Virtual Desktop is far better than Oculus, but does have a learning curve and it’s a third party paid program.
There’s also a right click to zoom function. If you can’t read something well enough, aim your head so that it is in the center of your view, then right click your mouse to zoom in close. It takes a bit of getting use to and will sometimes stick in the zoomed view. If that happens (common with glass cockpit controls for me), it’s likely because the cursor is also over the cockpit display. Move the cursor away and the view will reset.
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First off, make sure that you have the highest clarity with the Quest 3 itself - that your vision at 1.5 (or so) meters focal distance is as clear as it can be. Most of us have special-for-Quest 3 prescription lenses from Zenni.com or equivalent for $50 - that made a huge difference for me. Obviously, you would need a vision test to get a current prescription. Realize it’s not about “readers” for near vision but far vision.
Currently I have a separate wifi6e router just for Virtual Desktop running at “godlike 3100x3100 per eye” resolution and have an Nvidia 3080ti video card that can handle that res. I have an 8 core CPU running at 5Ghz. I set Virtual Desktop to run at 72Hz so I can get mostly faster than 36FPS when running MSFS2020 with mostly medium to high settings and use SSW to smooth the image for looking sideways. I do still use OpenXR Toolkit by mbucchia for 80% NIS scaling so when I select 100% MSFS resolution in settings with TAA, I see 2508x2508 (or so). With these settings I can do a late evening takeoff with the PMDG 737 headed west from Santa Barbara, CA over photogrammetry scenery, the cockpit looks quite clear without leaning in although the MCP portion of the graphics is a little clearer than the vector graphics on the PFD/MFDs but I can read the FMS-CDU. As I fly, sometimes the FPS drops below 36 and you see some stutter. I also try MSFS setting DLSS Quality but don’t see much FPS improvement. I like flying low in a helicopter over Santa Barbara as well since the buildings look fairly correct - SB is somewhat isolated from other runways and cities so I think that helps performance.
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I appreciate your response. However, honesty I did not understand 99% of it. I don’t know diddly about all this techy stuff. All those abbreviations mean nothing to me and trying to look them up doesn’t help. Just way too confusing I guess. On the lens deal, dispite being 60 years old I have better than 20/10 vision. I have really mind blowing distance vision. I don’t wear any glasses. Its funny. Seems like I was born knowing how to fly and understanding flight physics etc. I love planes like the DC3 as the fly by wire and all the gadgets are just way too confusing. I like hand flying anyway otherwise is super boring just sitting on my ■■■picking my nose looking out a window and monitoring gauges all day. That is not flying to me anyway. I am still struggling to learn the glass cockpits as I prefer steam gauges. Simple worked just fine but humans seem to need to complicate everything I guess. I had figured out a way to hold down some button on the keyboard, while clicking a guage and it would pop up and I could move it out of way on the monitor. It was great. But once I flew in VR, I just could not go back to using the screen. So I have forgot how to do that now. Besides, it didn’t work in VR anyway. Why I forgot how.
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