Multi-screen cockpit setups are more popular than you might think. Whether it’s a spare monitor repurposed for the G1000, a tablet on a kneeboard stand, or a phone propped up next to the keyboard, simmers have been piecing together secondary displays for years. MSFS’s pop-out system gets you there eventually, but it’s a manual process you redo every single flight. What if there’s a different way?
A new tool called GlassOut, currently in public beta, is trying to improve that whole process.
GlassOut is built by Artur, the independent developer behind FlyingArt, the same studio that previously released tools like Cabby and SimBox for MSFS. The concept is straightforward: GlassOut reads instrument panels directly from the simulator as live DirectX 12 textures and streams them in real time to whatever device you want, whether that’s a phone strapped to your yoke, a tablet on the desk, or an extra monitor mounted below your main display.
The key difference from the traditional approach is that no manual pop-outs are required at all. You just launch GlassOut alongside the sim, and it handles panel capture automatically in the background.
How it works
GlassOut pulls panels as raw DX12 textures, which means no screen captures, no OCR, and no compression artifacts. Artur says this also means zero GPU hit, as encoding is handled entirely on the CPU using JPEG compression. On the display side, you build a profile in the GlassOut app, define crop areas to isolate individual instruments from larger atlas textures, and arrange everything on a template canvas. From there, a single click deploys those layouts as borderless windows at exact pixel positions across your monitors, or streams them over your local network to connected devices.
Importantly, the touch interactivity carries over. If you’re streaming a G3000 GTC or an EFB panel to a tablet, tapping it sends real clicks back into MSFS, so you can adjust your FMS or fiddle with the avionics without ever reaching for the mouse.
Compatibility and pricing
GlassOut supports both MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024. There are companion apps for iOS and Android, and the streaming works to any device on the same local network, including browsers. A developer API is also available for third-party integrations, covering both HTTP and WebSocket protocols.
Pricing is currently set at $16 as a one-time beta purchase, down from the planned $22 full price. That includes all future updates for this major version and a 14-day no-questions-asked refund window. There’s also a demo mode that lets you test every feature without a license, the only difference being a repeating watermark on streamed panels.
Being a one-person project in public beta, it’s worth going in with realistic expectations. Artur says he’s shipping updates frequently and responding to bug reports actively via the project’s Discord, and the feedback so far has reportedly been encouraging, with users already flying with it daily.
Worth a look
For simmers who have been wanting a cleaner multi-screen setup without the pop-out hassle, GlassOut is probably the most direct solution available right now. The demo mode makes it a low-risk try, and at $16 the entry cost isn’t steep for what it offers.
You can find GlassOut, along with the iOS and Android apps, at glassout.flyingart.dev.
