VR development appears to be slowing

[CptLucky8]

@tempestornado23

it’s still disappointing to see this when they appear to spending most resources on world updates and not making as much progress on bugs in 2D, let alone VR performance smoothness, and optimization. I suppose that’s what sells more software in more markets to a largely 2D user base

I’ve written some comments lately about the first part of your remark, where I’m trying to help assessing the technical implications of some of the VR items. It would be presumptuous qualifying these as “very small coding work tasks” because it depends on the overall code context, nevertheless, from a technical standpoint, and in isolation, there is not much more to do with these items than what I’ve listed IMHO:

@CptLucky8

In addition, I’d like to pass these comments because some of the bugs and wishes are technically less complex and most likely easier to solve and implement more rapidly than what the snapshot is indicating:

Bug	Comment
1. Increase Distance Threshold to See Aircraft Lights	This was increased for 3D mode previously, it might just be the threshold value have not been propagated back in the VR pixel shaders and/or VR code. I understand 2021-22 is conservative but this doesn’t look like a very complex fix either?!
7. Propellers and Reprojection	There are mods already for most aircraft and the solution to this is to make sure the alpha value in the texture doesn’t go above a certain threshold. It seems 25% alpha is working but this should be easy to try out with a set of textures with varying alpha, and establish which threshold is working with WMR, with SteamVR and with Oculus.

Wishes	Comment
2. Cockpit Size and World Scale in VR	It is basically setting up a translation matrix based on a UI slider, and then do a matrix mul per eye… nothing more.
6. Can you please add a “Sun Glasses” mode	It is basically reducing exposure in the existing Tone Mapper by 1 or 2 stops… nothing more either. (no need for displaying a pair of glasses in 3D in front of the eyes for example)
13. Render Sun with Fading Disk when Bloom is Disabled	In lieu of a reduced version of the Bloom shader which would be working only on the sun pixels (hard to separate this from the rest because the bloom is a whole screen shader), a simple Sun with blooming light texture overlay would probably give enough visually pleasing results.

As for the 2nd part of your remark, I’ve just commented about a different point of view. You might want to read the rest of it!

@CptLucky8

Re: “Xbox Q&A makes no sense”

I’m sorry to disagree but to me, there are other ways to look at this.

On one hand, Windows and Xbox are converging entirely in the Microsoft Gaming strategy. However most 3rd party devs are used to PC dev, not Xbox dev, and this is why there might be some specific questions regarding this new ecosystem which we’d want to ask.

But on the other hand, because dev tools and technologies are entirely converging and are making no distinction between PC and Xbox from a game and technology perspective, I believe there shouldn’t much questions coming from 3rd party devs otherwise this would defeat the very principle of convergence.

But you could look at all this in an entirely different way than before: the game main target audience is…