I finally figured out why this was happening on my system. I had not installed Steam and SteamVR. Even though I was getting access to the game through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and the EA App and even though I can play EA's other game, Star Wars Squadrons perfectly fine without Steam VR installed, F1 2022 seems to use Steam VR and won't work without it. It's a huge pain. I have to launch my Meta Quest Oculus software, enable the PC link, open SteamVR, then open F1 2022, which seems to launch the EA app as well, and then figure out how to navigate the Steam VR environment on top of the Meta environment and then figure out how to get my gamepad controller to work instead of the game wanting me to play it with the VR handsets... It's cumbersome to say the least, but I WAS able to get it working and drive in full VR glory. Now I want a proper simulator wheel and pedals because playing with an Xbox Gamepad is terrible compared with what the game can obviously do. The throttle and brake modulation with the gamepad is like light switches and you really need to let it do the shifting for you, but it works. Given the limited field of view from inside the cockpit, I don't know how valuable the VR experience really is. If you had a very wide, curved screen or even a sim-pit with a 3-screen setup, the VR would be irrelevant. It's not like a flight sim where you can look back over your shoulder; your head is pretty well locked in the forward position.
