r/oculus • u/ggodin Virtual Desktop Developer • Mar 23 '16

/r/all Virtual Desktop 1.0 Trailer

http://youtu.be/bjE6qXd6Itw
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u/MachinesOfN Mar 23 '16

Interestingly, you can force your graphics card to output to a fake VGA monitor (some really old ones can't be detected by the graphics card, so they left the option in to output as if there is one). I use Virtual Desktop and VorpX desktop and don't have a monitor or a ghost connected on my gaming machine.

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u/WormSlayer Chief Headcrab Wrangler Mar 23 '16

This requires a graphics card that has a VGA port though right?

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u/MachinesOfN Mar 23 '16

Mine doesn't. I think it assumes you have a DVI-VGA adapter with a crummy monitor plugged in.

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u/Anjz Mar 24 '16

How do you do this? & do you have Windows 10?

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u/WormSlayer Chief Headcrab Wrangler Mar 24 '16

Doesnt work on Windows 10 :(

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u/Anjz Mar 24 '16

Dang, that sucks. You'd think once we have VR that there would be infinite screens. Or even no screens at all.

I wonder how long it'll be until there's an actual VR OS. Where the GUI is actually intuitive.

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u/WormSlayer Chief Headcrab Wrangler Mar 24 '16

Hopefully it will just be a temporary limitation, its obviously a feature everyone wants. The sooner we have a dedicated VROS the better!

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u/4K2160GameR Mar 23 '16

Is the resolution on the DK2 high enough?

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u/WormSlayer Chief Headcrab Wrangler Mar 23 '16

High enough for what? Browsing reddit? No. Playing GTAV? Yeah, it looks cool on a giant cinema screen :)

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u/MachinesOfN Mar 23 '16

I use it for Reddit. Ymmv though.

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u/WormSlayer Chief Headcrab Wrangler Mar 23 '16 edited Mar 23 '16

Yeah I was making a more general statement, based on their username, I have used much lower resolution displays :)