Dawn of Jets

[MigBuster]

 

 

New but retro looking Flight Sim / Game with Strike Fighters level Terrain / GFX and clicky cockpits for Meta Quest VR.  Has Ten flyable jets including Me262, Meteor F.3, T-33, but you need to earn money to buy planes.

Is Early Access so use at own risk.

 

Take command of history's most iconic fighter jets in this

unprecedented VR flight simulator for the Oculus Quest. 

Intuitive and easy to fly, yet sophisticated enough to support takeoffs, landings, rolls, loops, and even carrier launches and traps. 

You'll be amazed at how powerful the Oculus Quest 2 is!

 

 

Meta EA Page:

https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/dawn-of-jets/3677727965681410/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHO7GZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHbROfsoGUHkNqfD8ZqE0vyn50397xNAMWKFuxPijQdH-uTYpqYYkcISZ9w_aem_-Sr_VGcCNPUSUtNnaym8tA&utm_source=l.facebook.com&utm_medium=oculusredirect#reviews

 

Website:

https://www.evinteractive.com/dawn-of-jets-vr

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[+streakeagle]

This is a decent flight sim for a VR headset game. The graphics are similar to 1999/Falcon 4.0 but with anti-aliasing making it prettier. Make no mistake, it is a game. But the cockpits look decent and the flight models are not totally arcade.

[mono27]

This sim looks very interesting. Is it only for Meta Quest? Any chance to use it through SteamVR?

I am sorry to ask this but I don't know so much about VR. I have an HP Reverb since years and happy with them.

[+streakeagle]

8 hours ago, mono27 said:

This sim looks very interesting. Is it only for Meta Quest? Any chance to use it through SteamVR?

I am sorry to ask this but I don't know so much about VR. I have an HP Reverb since years and happy with them.

It is only available from the Meta Quest store for the Quest 2 and Quest 3 series headsets.
It was made using the "Unity" game engine, so they could port it to other platforms, but I doubt they will do that.

It is similar to the free-to-play Strike Fighters android game (which is also available as a PC game), but it is VR only and flown from the cockpit.
I don't see any way to see external views.

A typical mission involves startup, takeoff, fly through a portal to get to the mission area, fly through some waypoints, accomplish the mission, fly through a portal to get to the turn onto final approach, and finally land.
The clickable cockpits, startup, takeoff, and landing procedures give the game a simulator feel.
But targets have generous hit boxes and 0.50 cal. MGs can kill most targets with ease.
But the differences between attacking with rockets, bombs, and guns are fairly well modeled.
The bombsight is basically CCIP and the bombs usually detonate well after you have flown past the target, so bombing is much easier than it should be.
Dogfights are not that much different than F-86 vs MiG-15 in DCS World: the AI can extend at will in a climb or hit the brakes to make you overshoot.
Because I have already learned how to deal with this type of AI in DCS, I do fairly well.

I finally earned enough money with the T-33 and F-80 to get the F-86.
Now I want to save up enough for either the F9F-2 or the FJ-3.

[DawnOfJets]

Hey, thanks for posting this!  If it is OK with the admins I can drop a 20% off code here.

[DawnOfJets]

On 1/1/2025 at 9:09 AM, mono27 said:

This sim looks very interesting. Is it only for Meta Quest? Any chance to use it through SteamVR?

I am sorry to ask this but I don't know so much about VR. I have an HP Reverb since years and happy with them.

Yes, it's only for Meta Quest.  We certainly can't compete with DCS, etc. so we decided to make the "best possible" air combat game we could using the Quest hardware.

[MigBuster]

10 minutes ago, DawnOfJets said:

Hey, thanks for posting this!  If it is OK with the admins I can drop a 20% off code here.

Hi there - scanning through the policy that should be okay - thanks.

I take it you are related to the development of the Game?

[WitchyWoman]

Should of made it useble for several VR headsets including the much better designed and older Oculus Rift S which I much prefer. The games sales are going to suffer for only focusing one specific model and its policy of forcing a fakebook account as well.

[+streakeagle]

On 1/12/2025 at 5:13 PM, WitchyWoman said:

Should of made it useble for several VR headsets including the much better designed and older Oculus Rift S which I much prefer. The games sales are going to suffer for only focusing one specific model and its policy of forcing a fakebook account as well.

They no longer force Facebook accounts. The VR market is still relatively small. The dominant market share is the Meta Quest app store. So, if you want to make money selling VR games, time spent on supporting anything other than Quest is time and money lost.