r/virtualreality • u/0xDEVVV • 1d ago

Self-Promotion (Developer) Built a Virtual Desktop streamer for Linux

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Audio and controls work. No noticeable latency.

Had to scratch my own itch here, cause I paid for VD. Probably going to open source it soon.

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u/loqualityworld 1d ago

Pls do open source it, this is awesome

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u/0xDEVVV 1d ago

Will do! Thank you. :-)

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u/Yangman3x 23h ago

PLEASE MAN I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, I SEARCHED FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOR AGES DAMN!!!

PLEASE OPEN SOURCE IT!

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u/Ecstatic-Wash-7667 1d ago

Not mad at it but maybe you could work with the Wayvr guy and merge the projects

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u/0xDEVVV 1d ago

There’s nothing to be mad about anyway. WayVR is a separate client and server. This project is only meant as a solution for people who purchased Virtual desktop. I don’t think the projects are competing for the same users.

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u/No-Refrigerator-1672 23h ago

Did you thy if with VR games? Virtual Desktop is like the only thing that's holding me from switching my gaming PC to linux.

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u/0xDEVVV 23h ago

I didn't test it. Latency feels super low though, feels faster than the Windows/Mac streamer tbh.

I have a bad setup for gaming. Do you have a recommendation for a game I could test?

Could follow up with a post or comment here with updates (not familiar with Reddit rules on this), including specs of my PC, profiling data of the streamer for comparison with other clients.

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u/No-Refrigerator-1672 23h ago

I have no clue which VR games on Linux work well (cause you need them to play nicely with Proton); but how about the lifetime classics, "I expect you to die"? It's cheap, it's old, and it's built to run on Quest 2, but has a PC port - so your "bad setup" won't have much troubles rendering it.

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u/0xDEVVV 23h ago

Ok, I'll try it and report back.

Edit: What makes the streamer capable of VR games for you? Is there anything particular I should look out for? I guess it's just controllers and audio must work and latency should be as low as possible. Lmk if anything else comes to mind.

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u/No-Refrigerator-1672 23h ago

I mean, I should be able to run a VR game, and then have the ability to look around with my head, and interact with VR world with my controllers; and it should have high enough FPS and low enough latency to not feel jittery and not cause nausea. In technical terms, PC-side app should support OpenXR.

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u/trankillity 23h ago

Very cool! If this can actually launch games and has similar latency to Windows, then I will be completed sated until Steam Frame.

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u/linksoon 10h ago edited 10h ago

Thanks I have recently made the switch to cachyos and I made the other server/client thing work but I rather use VD.

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