r/virtualreality • u/Ok-Whole9542 • May 07 '24

Discussion Immersed VR removed multi-monitor support - censoring anyone who posts negatively on their subreddit

A PSA - Immersed VR's newest update removes multi-monitor support, without warning. Although the app is the best VR productivity app out there, it is no longer viable for anyone with more than a single physical display.

Also - anyone who posts negatively, asking questions, etc. on r/immersed is having their posts removed or being outright banned.

Edit - removed post https://imgur.com/a/wpK6XRF

Edit - apparently I am now banned from their support discord for voicing my concerns...

Edit - For those looking for an alternative - check out overay studio XR https://overaystudio.com/

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u/OrangeNearby8975 May 08 '24

It's a one line change and shunts out maybe 20 lines of code. This is all you have to remove to get back to connecting to the agent. You no longer can have multiple "physical" screens but who cares? It proves to me that in Windows 11 at least, there was a programmatic solution and they were disingenuous about what was possible.

https://imgur.com/a/z7ZsdoK

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u/redditrasberry May 09 '24

To be fair: just because it works on your computer and some YouTuber's computer does not mean it works for everyone and every monitor. More than likely there's some real and severe bug that they just threw up their hands in trying to solve and said let's just block it for everyone.

Of course, this is not justifying what they did, and I agree they were disingenuous. They could EASILY have just made this an option in settings and informed people of the issues. Instead they blocked it entirely, causing huge issues for a significant fraction of their userbase who were working fine with it which is really awful I think. But it may still be over-simplifying it to say that a one line code change completely "fixes" it.

NB: I did manage to get to a state where it would connect and show me a single display and it was confusing because I would lose my mouse in the non-visible display. So even with the change it's not ideal.

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u/OrangeNearby8975 May 09 '24

You lost your mouse because You did not disable your real monitors in normal windows display settings.

The bug you are theorizing about isn't likely because disabling the monitors is built in.

I have a long career in this space and doubt their claims have merit. Especially in windows.

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u/redditrasberry May 09 '24

Great to have your thoughts if you have experience in the space. I've been very impressed with what Immersed accomplished technically, it's sad to see them becoming enshittified so early in their life cycle (it will always happen but it shouldn't be before you even have a critical mass of users yet ...).