VR closed beta is here and predictably I didn’t get an invite email. (Currently have a Reverb v1). Fair enough.
However I did buy a Reverb G2 under the impression that MSFS was going to be a “launch title” and that the release of VR was synced to the shipping of G2 headsets. I don’ think I was alone in doing that.
In this video it was stated that “we [Asobo / MS] intend to release VR alongside the HP Reverb G2”
The media picked up on that and dozens of articles promoted MSFS VR as being somehow tied to the G2 shipping, and launch title for the hardware. Asobo certainly did nothing to correct that if was incorrect information.
It now seems like VR beta could go on for weeks, maybe months, and plenty of people will have their shiny new G2s with no ability to try MSFS. At best, I don’t think that was made clear, as worst it seems like deceptive marketing to sell a few more G2 headsets.
I hope I’m wrong and VR will be available to all G2 owners once they get their headsets.
Edit: In this article Jorg Neumann also seemed to brief Eurogamer that G2 owners would get access to VR
“ While VR support isn’t exclusive to the headset [G2] it will make its first appearance there before rolling out to other headsets . “We’re starting with them,” Microsoft’s head of Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann told Eurogamear.”