Major Corvus

I have had this same issue for as long as I've been playing DCS. Over time I have found that when not using the hand controllers, I place them in my lap with the handles facing towards my junk. This has the effect of making the in game hand avatars face away from the stick and in this position they rarely seem to automatically grab the controls

Not only has the pointer lasers gone, but the thumbsticks no longer work, so I can't rotate dials or even flick a switch off once I have turned it on. I only ever play DCS in VR and it is now completely unplayable. I hope this is just a bug that's been flagged for fixing, because without hand controllers DCS is finished for me.