Hello, Russ...how are you, Captain? Mark Alviso here, one of your old 73 co-pilots at USAir. I was delighted to discover your excellent sim vids. Many fond memories of sharing the cockpit with you. Not too many guys made the impression on me that you did. Your engineering background and meticulousness shines through on every video. You've gotten a lot older, as have I - (67 this week) but I remember how you were back then - and you really haven't changed at all. Deliberate, logical, intelligent, interesting, affable. The same ol' Russ Barlow. I hung on until the Covid madness of 2020 and then punched out from the AAL Airbus in Dec of that year, about 2 years early - the atmosphere in MIA had become oppressive, and they were threatening me with termination because I wouldn't take the jab, and on top of that they were offering the more senior Capts financial incentives - 'offers I couldn't refuse,' as they would say in PHL. Anyway, just wanted to reach out and acknowledge the memories. Will be watching more of your vids. They are the best on the WWW. BTW, will be attending Sun N' Fun this week for the first time. Maybe I will get to see you - or at least, maybe one of your old Phantoms with Leading edge Boundary Layer Control.

The potential here is huge, and I'm really looking forward to the day when you can seemlessly see 'external' controls as well as yourself in the level of detail we now enjoy in MSFS. Graphics cards and CPU's are still bounding ahead, so ultimately the computer power will be there and it becomes a software development exercise. Great times ahead!

As 'hacky' as this is, what a fantastic result for a home sim. Very very exciting! Thanks for sharing Russ, Will be sure to share this with the GotFriends MSFS dev team! - Developer Mykrode

I just returned 3 weeks ago from the Czech republic where I flew the DogFight Boss F-18C physical cockpit, full motion with Motion Systems 6DOF platform, along with the Varjo XR-3 Focal Edition headset, the experience was unbelievable. I own a DogFight Boss physical cockpit, every switch, every knob, every screen in the MIP, and all caution/warning advisory panel lights operational. My next step is to add the Varjo XR-3, but currently am using the HTC Vive XR Elite. @Russ Barlow, this demonstration is awesome, as I have Reality Mixer, and want to start experimenting with it, you've given me the motivation to do so. I'm a retired US Army Blackhawk Maintenance Test Pilot, and the evolution of personal, commercially available flight simming, with xtended reality is very exciting and promising. Again, great video!

What actually is needed is the ability to get rid of the 3D panel in FS, so a homebuilt panel can be used. And the box should be resizeable to fit the MIP.

This is amazing. As you said, I had no idea this was going to be available anytime soon. This is really exciting. I fly VR all the time now. I can't seem to go back to the 2d flying. And this functionality is the only thing that was missing. I can't wait to try it out. Thanks for letting us know about this. :)

Nicely done Russ, you are always on the forefront of Sim technology. This was such an exciting glimpse of the certain future.

The future is exciting! Way cool!

Definitely the future of Sim. Tnx for bringing

So, yesterday I tried the Quest 3 for the first time and I was very happy to see high quality pass-through mixed reality has finally come to consumer headsets. While it's not as good as on the XR-3 it is definitely "good enough". I think we will finally see mixed reality coming to home flight sims. With Reality Mixer + Virtual Desktop it looks like it can already be made today. I will do some experiments in the coming days.

I can't wait for this to be available for home cockpit builders that have the store edition of MSFS! I don't have a VR unit yet. Still using Track IR with 3x 55" screens

Very kewl starting point for this type of software.

So I found that if you use a bright white light over head facing down it drastically improves the image quality of the pass through. Give it a try

I started building my home GA cockpit with triple 55" tv's some months ago. I really tried to go the VR route but despite amazing immersion, it just had too many downfalls for me. I'll continue building my panel and adding switches, cause I'm expecting to use that once mixed reality gets good for consumers and with good enough pass through to also see the panel. Hopefully in a few years, then I'll replace my triple tv's.

Nice one Russ..... I can see the potential.

I’m going to try this in iracing so I can see a stream deck and a button box.

I wonder if, instead of setting approximate areas us, it would be possible to green screen an area around a bounding box so the software could say "anything that is within the box, but is green I'll ignore". That way you could green screen exactly what you don't want to display. Obviously this won't work with the current software but it might make for a more accurate interleaving of the virtual and real world.

This would work well if they added a green screen capability. You could build an entire cockpit and put the windows as green screen.

congratulation on your first taste of mixed reality

Thanks Russ.

have anyone tried this with the q3 yet ?

This one is gonna be big I hear green screen is coming and the ability to use any camera. The only downside for me is I don’t use the steam version of msfs being that open xr toolkit is doing amazing things for visuals

Russ, what about looking at a chart or handwriting a clearance ? Could you make a video on that?

Hi, I’m using this with quest 3, Can’t find how to make the edges clear like yours instead of the border lines, any help appreciated :) Been loving this with my sim

Can it work with a HD webcam attached to HMD? Full HD webcams provide much higher quality image.

I assume some company will come out with stick on cameras for your vr headset so you can use those cams for the pass through image.

Hi Russ! Yesterday I made my first successful connection and decent use of Virtual Desktop Reality Mixer on Quest 3 in DCS. I am ready for the next step which is why I am reaching out. How do you keep reality mixer window boxes centered on the same view as virtual desktop? I find that by the time I launch everything the two apps come slightly off center to each other.

Does this work for a Reverb G2 V1 if I am using the store version of MSFS?

Afternoon Sir - Are you planning on going ot Flight Sim Expo in Houston in June?

Interesting app. However, Quest 2 is not currently supported.

Doesn't work with the most popular headset (quest 2) so it's shit 🤷‍♂️