Assetto Corsa VR related dev notes - Don't get your hopes up

Asseto Corsa VR support is not likely any time soon, the following is from the just released dev notes: http://www.assettocorsa.net/assetto-corsa-v1-5-dev-diary-part-33/

"Let us say a few words about VR, which is an open and quite talked-about issue at the moment. As you know, Kunos Simulazioni has been supporting the Oculus Rift since the release of the very first kit, and the American company also chose Assetto Corsa for its events thanks to the immersion achieved by Assetto Corsa with its products, up to the DevKit 2. The third time around, the SDK provided by the company to support its device was radically changed, and we simply cannot update the code in Assetto Corsa every time this happens; we need to completely rewrite the dedicated rendering structure. That’s not easy or cheap, as you could probably imagine.

Although the retail version of Oculus Rift is finally available, at the moment our core team is focused on the submission and release of Assetto Corsa for consoles, which at the same time brings a huge update for the PC version with the 1.5 build thanks to the fact that part of the code is shared between the platforms. Since working on Oculus support requires us to allocate extra time and resources – because of its complexity it cannot be managed easily or in a few days – we will have to take a moment and consider when our current development schedule will allow us to do so, but realistically not before this summer. Our aim is to support VR – and not necessarily only the Oculus Rift – when we will be able to take the time and resources required.
We fully understand that people who have invested in the purchase of a VR device want to use it as much as possible, and we know that Assetto Corsa guaranteed a ton of fun with the Oculus SDK2 (that could only be better with the retail version), therefore we promise that we will take the time to evaluate the option of creating proper VR support in harmony with other tasks and priorities that we have already scheduled".

It does mean AC is dead in the water as far as VR goes.

For now LFS and Pcars are the best VR options, though the Pcar devs have not yet pushed an update to Steam for the CV1 Rift. I do hope others like Dirt Rally step into the VR race sim vacuum.

The AC devs have a current survey about wanted features and VR is one of the options, cast your vote here: http://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/lets-play-game-designer.31615/

Try the experimental 1.3 Rift support LFS just posted today: http://www.xsimulator.net/community/threads/live-for-speed-plugin.4775/page-2#post-103127

Off topic somewhat but how about FlyInside, it has 1.3 support and the new Leap motion integration to use your hands in the cockpit.

The physics in AC just keeps getting better, like after the latest update, but no VR means it is useless for me, which is a real shame. Pcars is now my go to driving sim but I do miss the AC type physics, the lack of a track editor and not having a strong mod community.

The DK2 only worked with the old Oculus runtime, so you would have to use a runtime switcher.

I gave up on AC VR months ago, it is too clunky and incomplete to be an enjoyable option for me at the moment. I will amuse myself with alternatives until the AC devs get around to proper VR support.

Nice to know VR is getting some love, I miss AC.