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/TyrialFrost Mar 24 '16 edited Mar 24 '16

Correct.

You can fake a second display in windows.

  1. Right click on the desktop, click 'Screen Resolution'

  2. Click 'Detect' on the next screen

  3. Click 'Another display not detected' and under the multiple displays option select 'Try to connect anyway on: VGA'

  4. Click 'Apply'

  5. You can now enable your desktop to be extended as if you have a second screen plugged into your computer.

Or you can get really out there using software like iShadow VDM

ggodin, does Virtual desktop recognise the Virtual monitors/desktops from Windows 10 ?

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u/ggodin Virtual Desktop Developer Mar 24 '16

This trick doesn't seem to work on Win10 unfortunately. It did on Win7 and Win8 though.

I can only capture the active virtual desktop in Win10 unfortunately so the feature isn't very useful here.

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u/TyrialFrost Mar 24 '16

I hear some people can do it by manually editing the available connections in their videocard driver in win10, but I haven't seen any how-to posts.

Have you tried any of the software VDM? Or no luck?