I’m by no means a huge VR user but I find the PSVR2 rendering based on your focus point to be a really neat feature for that reason.
Wherever you’re looking gets full resolution. Things in your perifory get downscaled. This helps the headset maintain max FPS at the full Hz.
Note: I don’t own one, I just think the tech for that is near.
If you’re open to sci-fi:
Nathan Lowell - Smuggler Series (3 books, starting with milk run) or Trader Series (first 6 books, starting with quarter share)
Smuggler has more… Intrigue and whatnot. Trader is pretty straightforward and “feel good”, iirc.
I would say read both series to those points before going further with the Seeker Series and later books. I forget where in the series but at some point the characters cross paths so having read both series before then helps it all fit together.