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The new Microsoft Flight Simulator is an immersive beast of a PC game, and we can only imagine how immersive it nimbleness get in VR -- loosely you nimbleness not gotta imagine much longer, due to the genuineness that Microsoft has just opened signups (via Eurogamer) for a demerit beta of the vital realness experience.

There are reservedly a few requirements if you want to be considered, though. Not only do you gotta own the game, have a Windows Woven Realness headset, be a registered Microsoft Flight Simulator "Insider" and sign an NDA, you'll need a whimsically beefier PC than the borax game -- with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 or better sporting 8GB of VRAM, and 16GB of system memory.

And, you'll need to prove your PC qualifies by symposium your DxDiag (press your Windows alpha button, blazon "dxdiag", hit Enter) therefore Microsoft can confirm those specs and that your system isn't prone to BSODs or other major system errors.

(The DxDiag file is basically just an inventory of your system, loosely it does conjointly list contempo appositeness crashes.)

Intriguingly, it doesn't peekaboo like you'll need the HP Reverb G2, the specific hook that Microsoft originally said would get first dibs on the game. Any Windows Woven Realness hook will plausibly do to start, which should be neat for those who got deep discounts on items like the Lenovo Explorer and Samsung Quest over the past couple of years.

In a video Q&A, developer Asobo Tidal says the beta should percussion off in late October or early November. The hair-comb had previse promised a free-willed VR amend this fall, therefore it superficially shouldn't be much maxi than that. If you've got an Oculus, HTC, or other VR headset, there'll be a additional wave of demerit beta for other equipment as well-built -- Asobo says it hasn't uncontestable when that wave will percussion off.

It's not unanticipated Microsoft nimbleness want to be cautious with the VR rollout, due to the genuineness that the game initially tended to eat powerful gaming PCs for lunch. Even our Nvidia RTX 3080 wasn't enumerated to run it at galore bore, partly due to the genuineness that we hadn't commutual it with a fast enumerated CPU. That said, we've seen some framerate intrusion in contempo updates, therefore perhaps VR won't be a tremendous sway this holiday. And maybe it'll give you more time to find a flight stick.

Update October 3rd, 12:31PM ET: Added that the beta is vogue to percussion off in late October or early November.