SimXR-MR into KCDC

[@martinlangdon5949]

Hi from England - You've cracked it Russ! Thanks for sharing your wonderful videos. I can see that you have more than one panel blended and it looks really great. I think also that you have FSRealistic running because of the shaking and creaking which altogether adds to the immersion. I have a matt black instrument panel and a flush to the panel yoke. If you could do that when you get a spare hour or two you will have found flight sim utopia 😊

[@VliegerNL]

I went from PC monitors, to VR. Then I stopped VR and went to 3x55” 4k because I did not enjoy not being able to use my cockpit and having to fumble around. THIS pass through looks like the way of the future, once it becomes a bit less fiddly. Just BEAUTIFUL!

[@rbarlow]

Yes, still way to go before it’s easily implemented, but it’s definitely the future for flight training

[@herwighermans5210]

Thanks for pointing all of these possibilities out. I will give this a try a soon a my pimax crystal light arrives.

[@melvilib]

Does the light version have passthrough of any quality?

[@dvsteve71]

I just started my VR journey with the meta 3. Looking forward to this!

[@rbarlow]

This is still a but undeveloped for noobs but master plain old VR using Virtual Desktop and you’ll be ready for Mixed Reality before you know it. virtual Desktop is a bit confusing at first because there are really two computers involved. Your PC and the cpu and operating system on the Quest3. VD will display your PC desktop in windows on the headset and for me it was hard to figure what was doing what. Give it a little time and it will come.

[@allansmits9621]

Russ, are you going to do a video on how to set up everything to do this? It looks awesome. Can one develop panels for jets yet? What are the limitations for different aircraft?

[@bpa602]

Wowww.... fantastic!!!!!love it...

[@jchristi99]

Thanks Ross, really great video. I just posted this comment in your first MR video before I noticed this one. I can no longer afford to fly privately, so the last 2 years have been a dream come true flying with my VR system. It's so close to the real thing its crazy...but not being able to scratch some notes on a pad, or read a chart just drives me nuts. Now...things are getting real. I'm dying to upgrade from my G2 to one of latest headsets and was hoping the new Crystal light was the answer, but it doesn't have pass-thru. So, now I'm thinking the Quest 3, as I want MR more than anything else. In all of the Quest 3 videos I've seen, the MR looks a bit 'wonky'. I don't know if this is what you are seeing inside the headset, or if it's just a video capture problem? Do you find the Quest 3 visuals quality, including MR, pleasing to use and hence would recommend purchase? Or, are you dying for the next evolution? Love your channel!

[@seattime4075]

New Update V66 is said to reduces the image warping seen around your hands.

[@joaocavalcanti7721]

Looks very nice

[@ErickNagy]

Is it XP or MSFS? My MSFS will not update the additional displays when in VR. Image is frozen as soon as I switch to VR. Does anybody know if this an expected behavior?

[@tubeloobs]

This is MSFS

[@ErickNagy]

@@tubeloobs thanks, I ended up watching the other video he explains the setup. But I need to find out if there is a setting somewhere that is disabling my external monitors update, they either show a frozen image or go black when I switch to VR.

[@xtraflyer]

This is looking great.

[@rbarlow]

It’s a little work to set up but well worth it once you start flying and you have your hands and controls back while in VR

[@trailblazer7108]

With MSFS24 announced, I’m just about to get into flight simming, if you were to start today, what would be your setup? I’d love it if you could do a video on this. I’m not sure if I should go for 3 tvs or VR, or both? Panels with knobster or something else? What would you build in 2024?

[@rbarlow]

I'd try VR with Quest 3 for a start... a Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo if available and rudder pedals... Winwing or Virpl. You can try mixed reality to see the controls at first, I use a kneeboard mounted wireless trackball for a mouse.

[@chrisvechrysal]

Thanks forvthis instructive vudeo with air manager on 2 touch screen with a common knob. But can you let me now your hard ware? Tanks from Aix en provence, France

[@simcptmike]

Great video content. Would you do an ifr flight in MR next?

[@MountainDanGaming]

Is there a limitation on how far you can move your head before the screens get messed up? I mean like can you look back towards the tail of the plane without issue? In circuits this is quite important to see where you are when passing the threshold, I always find my landings in MSFS are worse then real life because of trying to look back with hat switches.

[@rbarlow]

No problem. The pass through panels stay put. If you have then a distance from the panel they are like a window where you can move your head and change the field of view. If the passthrough panel is close to the instrument panel then there is no parallax issue.

[@dandavis804]

Russ, do you fly extensively in Mixed Reality now? I have the Crystal and contemplating grabbing the Quest 3 and SimXR to use with my StayLevel panel with AM and Knobster. Thoughts?

[@rbarlow]

No but I am flying mostly VR over Flat Panels. All the available solutions for MR on Quest 3 are still a bit cumbersome to manage. In some ways Color Panel is the easiest to setthe 1 up because of the SimXR interface. That being said I would definately try the Quest 3 and MR. They just lowered the price on the 512Gb model to $499 and 128Gb model remanLCD screens as they can bee too bright and bloom on the passthrough.

[@alphacheckdesigns4839]

Hi Russ, do you know if this great software works with DCS maybe ? thanks !

[@rbarlow]

No, it is currently a plug-in for Microsoft flight simulator, but he says he hopes to bring it to X-plane and DCS

[@alphacheckdesigns4839]

@@rbarlow thank you !

[@trailblazer7108]

Would this work well with a garmin 1000 panel?

[@rbarlow]

You will not be able to easily read the smaller text without leaning in closer.

[@Hakeem597]

Yo, this is insane!!!!

[@Bellthorian]

What size tablet or monitor are you running your gages on?

[@MizanTech]

Wow this is amazing!? What are you pc specs!?

[@NeilM367]

VR looks like it has come a long way, and pass-through mixed reality solves the last drawback for me. I use X-Plane as a training tool. I have used Air Manager and RealityXP to create a replica of the GA planes that I routinely fly. I see that you use MSFS in all of your recent mixed reality video’s. Can the same results be achieved in XP-12? How about XP-11?

[@SportLiveStreamsVideo]

I fly mixed reality in XP-12 and its fantastic. Since XP is more "open source" I can create the passthrough panels in blender and add them into the actual plane file with Xplane's PlaneMaker so I can simply load it up and go. The panel also exists in the 3D space of the virtual cockpit to it can be perfectly aligned in the cockpit which is great for immersion.

[@ondryas77]

A quick question ... what is the nob in the middle? Also, are you using air manager for the panels?

[@rbarlow]

Yes it is a Knobster and those are Air Manager touch panels. You touch a knob on the panel and it highlights yellow and then you can use Knobster as if it was that knob or knobs if it is a dual knob… push button too like the G530 knobs.

[@Bellthorian]

That is amazing, until had tracking software comes a long way to the point where we can effortlessly interact with the flight instruments in VR this is the best of both worlds.

[@bombaso5539]

want to find out if you can change the outline . that pink has to go. lol

[@BassontheRoof]

Yeah I saw his old video, he chose the hot pink because he didn't think it'd be a colour that would occur in his room camera too often. Not sure if it would effect stability if you had a dark colour though..

[@cguerino524]

VR is the only way to fly the sim!

[@rbarlow]

Yes and Mixed Reality is the best of both worlds

[@arcrides6841]

@@rbarlow MR is cool but I wish it looked less janky. Might reduce the immersion but at the same time that might be compensated by the fact that seeing your hands will raise the immersion. What do you think about it?

[@rbarlow]

@@arcrides6841 maybe I am too old at 71 but please translate “janky”

[@melvilib]

@@rbarlow WHAT DOES JANKY MEAN? Janky is a slang term for something run down, of poor quality, or unreliable. It can also be used for someone considered undesirable in some way.

[@Theamateurstudentpilot]

Agreed