Virtual Desktop 1.0 - Now available on Steam

[guygodin]

Virtual Desktop is a little utility that improves your VR experience on the desktop. By efficiently replicating your desktop into the Rift, the application allows you to see your desktop on a giant virtual screen. You can browse the web, watch movies or even play non-VR games. It also allows you to launch VR games and resume from them without having to take your headset off.




After you launch Virtual Desktop, a tray icon will appear in your taskbar. From there you can manage your list of games, change your settings.




You can also drag & drop executables or shortcuts to add more games to your list.

Requirements
- Windows 8 or 10
- Oculus 1.3 Runtime

Latest Changes
- Added ability to browse 360 photos
- Added mirror to monitor feature

Follow the link below to access the store page
Official website

[rowanunderwood]

Just updated to Windows 8.1 specifically to try out some of the windows 8 only features 🙂 Unfortunately. Fullscreen no longer works, when I check it it just turns right back off. Is this due to SDK .6 incompatibilities? Thanks!

[Chrysophrase]

"peeppalts" wrote:


Is it right, when I want to have 9 virtual monitors, I need the GPU with 9 outputs?

Rgrds,
PP.

You can make virtual monitors by doing the following.

1. On your screen resolution dialog click 'detect'
2. Click on the "Another display not detected" box that appears by your other actual monitors.
3. In the multiple displays dropdown select the '"Try to connect anyway on VGA"
4. click apply
5. click on the new monitor, and then select "Extend desktop to this display"
6. click Apply

You can now change the resolution of that new monitor.
After adding new monitors this way, you will need to restart virtual desktop in order for it to be used in the multi-monitor mode.

[Funkballs]

Is it possible to have an environment that is just transparent and shows whatever else is on the Oculus monitor in the background?

Use case for this would be to have a game running in a borderless window on the Oculus in extended mode and have Virtual Desktop running in windowed mode on top of it with a transparent environment. The effect being that you have a virtual desktop visible inside the game world.

Are there any other plans for achieving a similar effect?

Something else I would really like to see is a similar thing using window capture so you can choose an individual window to overlay with head tracking onto a VR world. That is probably outside the scope of Virtual Desktop though.

[Sharkku]

"Funkballs" wrote:
Is it possible to have an environment that is just transparent and shows whatever else is on the Oculus monitor in the background?

Use case for this would be to have a game running in a borderless window on the Oculus in extended mode and have Virtual Desktop running in windowed mode on top of it with a transparent environment. The effect being that you have a virtual desktop visible inside the game world.

Are there any other plans for achieving a similar effect?

That is an awesome idea!

"Funkballs" wrote:
Something else I would really like to see is a similar thing using window capture so you can choose an individual window to overlay with head tracking onto a VR world. That is probably outside the scope of Virtual Desktop though.

Dan Church is working on this for his plugin "FlyInside" for FSX. http://flyinside-fsx.com/

[guygodin]

"Funkballs" wrote:
Is it possible to have an environment that is just transparent and shows whatever else is on the Oculus monitor in the background?

Use case for this would be to have a game running in a borderless window on the Oculus in extended mode and have Virtual Desktop running in windowed mode on top of it with a transparent environment. The effect being that you have a virtual desktop visible inside the game world.

Are there any other plans for achieving a similar effect?

Something else I would really like to see is a similar thing using window capture so you can choose an individual window to overlay with head tracking onto a VR world. That is probably outside the scope of Virtual Desktop though.

It will be possible to do this at some point with the Oculus compositor (composing layers from different processes). It isn't possible at the moment.

"rowanunderwood" wrote:
Just updated to Windows 8.1 specifically to try out some of the windows 8 only features 🙂 Unfortunately. Fullscreen no longer works, when I check it it just turns right back off. Is this due to SDK .6 incompatibilities? Thanks!

Use the 0.5 runtime for the time being.

[IamHD]

Virtual desktop won't let me turn on fullscreen. It just goes black and blinks a few times then nothing changes. Newest version

[Apolloofamenti2]

Hey dev much respect to everything you have done and created!
So currently on Alienware m11x r2 with 6gb ram and Nividia GT 335 ( Guessing where this will go as the issue ) and windows 7 64 -bit service pack 1 with all necessary updates. I`ve taken the advice from others in the community of changing all nividia settings to high performance processor rather then auto- detect. I start the program and the initial screen shows perfectly, after about a few minutes of activity the program eventually crashes. It apparently has a compatibility issue which is never exactly specified in the windows troubleshooter. I would immediately think its the graphics card despite the fact in earlier versions the software worked exceptionally and never had incompatibility issues. I`ve reinstalled several times, disabled all programs that might zap ram, made sure every update was downloaded, and currently on OVR runtime 0.5.0.0. I`m really not sure what it could be besides what I suggest. Which even so in the beginning displays perfectly has next to zero latency and so on. I really do respect and enjoy VR Desktop and utilize it for nearly everything you truly have made a exceptional program kudos. If you can provide suggestions of any kind I would be so grateful

[guygodin]

You'll have to send me detIls of the crash. Go to control panel -> administrative tools -> event viewer -> application logs and find the error with Virtual Desktop (or Oculus) and pm me the text. Thanks!

[diogofigueiredo]

I'm having the full screen issue with 0.6 as well, but some days ago, immediately after updating my nvidia drivers, VD went fullscreen perfectly and I used it a couple of times that day. The next day it wouldn't go fullscreen anymore.
Just FYI.

[VizionVR]

Guy,
Did I see your home theater design being used for the Xbox play demo during the Rift Event? Is it official? Will Virtual Desktop come with Windows 10?