Been waiting for this since my Oculus preorder lol! I purchased the thing for DCS and IL2.

I just purchased yesterday a 7700K + mobo/mems (after checking Ryzen reviews yesterday...) to replace my 3570K. I spent 4 years without checking CPU reviews in depth, as it looked like there was barely any improvement, but, after Ryzen was announced, I started to check benchmarks etc. and definitively there is a 30-50% increase in performance in CPU limited gaming scenarios (basically ARMA 3, Squad, WOFF, Kerbal Space Planet, DCS, P3D and XP11 - everything that I play). Can't wait to check it out!

Nice choice congrats!
I thought about replacing my 4820K X-79 system this year, however the thing is rock solid at 4.50 GHz all day every day, decided to hold off 1 more year.
You are going to be well set to run BOS in VR!

Today is an important day for the project - we start VR alpha test. It will take 1-2 weeks, then we'll finalize the functionality, perform the beta testing run and then, hopefully, we will be able to release the update with Open VR support before the end of March.

VR support turns out to be tricky not because it is complex by itself, but because this technology and API are still relatively immature - there are no beaten paths and in some parts we were moving forward almost blindly. A large chunk of time was spent on finding new ways to optimize performance to make VR experience more fluid, many improvements were made in this field. Another big task we needed to complete was adapting the user interface for VR to make it usable. For a while, we were a bit puzzled how to make optical sights (like Pe-2 lower UBT MG gunsight or tank gunner sight) function in VR realistically, and we decided to show the gunsight only for one eye while another eye should be closed (like in real life). In our opinion, Oculus Rift cv1 has slightly better lenses and more effective usage of the display matrix (pixels in front of you are placed a bit tighter, but overall field of view is narrower). On the other hand, HTC Vive has more advanced tracking tech, slightly wider FOV which feels less like looking through binoculars, much larger possible play area (not like it is useful for a flight sim though) but its lenses have visible peripheral moire effect. In short, both devices have their pros and cons and if you plan to buy one, it would be ideal to demo them both to find out which one suits you better (but be mindful of a possibility of wearing a VR unit in a public place after someone else who may have had red-eye for instance). All in all, we like how VR works in our sim, it's on par or even better than in other sims.

Any recent news on when VR support is coming ? Last I heard was end of March . Is that still the plan ?
I've been using the Oculus with DCS for a few months now . Very immersive , really good fun , but the IL 2 series has always been my favorite hands down .

As per the last blog entries, they are "optimizing" their VR implementation. I would expect another month for this update, but maybe it gets released earlier.

Sorry for the naive and uninformed quick question but: Rift or Vive, in a few words?

hey guys, game is running flawlessly on my Oculus CV1 + gtx 1080. Only issues I can notice is that sometimes gunsight gets flickering. its like mix of propeller and heat + flickering. sometimes is in a bigger area not just the gunsight. Anybody have similar issues?

thanks! that solved my issues

Thank you. I would like to ask the same question about DCS, that many of you certainly fly too: any preference there? Certainly the link you posted will shed much light.

The WWII fighters are easier to control but full on dogfights wear me out. After 15 minutes I have to take the Rift off because I get motion sick.

With Il2 I don't get motionsick and can dogfight for hours on end. This weekend My two 1080ti's are going to be installed and I'll find out if it changes the motion sickness issues in DCS. So far Il2 BOS is sticking out head and shoulders above all the other VR flight sims I've tried out so far.