The Oculus Rift will be released on March 28th and a must-have tool for that gadget is undoubtedly Guy Godin’s Virtual Desktop. Virtual Desktop is an application developed for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive that let’s you use your computer in VR.
Basically, this means that you can browse the web, watch movies, Netflix or even play games on a giant virtual screen.
Here are some of the features of Virtual Desktop:
- Hardware accelerated 360 video playback
- Ability to play/stream YouTube 360 videos
- Browse and view 360 photos
- MilkDrop support for music visualization
- 3D Side-By-Side video support
- Game launcher with voice commands
- Multi-monitor
- Environment Editor to create custom environments
In order to showcase his application, Guy Godin released a new video for it that can be viewed below. And we can guarantee you that you’ll be sold on VR thanks to this video alone.
It looks phenomenal, so be sure to watch it!
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And that ladies and gentlemen, Is Oculus/Vive’s Killer app.
Game changing.
Yeah, been a while since I was really impressed by such a tech! Nice work!
The Gods has spoken
This is amazing. Who needs a big TV on the wall when u can do this? 😛
ANyways.. i do have a big TV on my wall.. sooo yeah. I already have this kind of thing, but somehow it aint as cool as this.. 🙂
Man this is amazing!
Man watching movies would be amazing in this! In couple of years, maybe AMC will go outta business?! 🙂
I suspect Hollywood is either scared Sh!tl3ss, or rubbing their hands together with glee as they brainstorm ways to monetize it.
The is nothing less than ****ing amazing. This is the future.
It is behind a big paywall now but yeah, it’s kind of close.
Its $14.99, seems reasonable to me.
Above you: AMD user Confirmed. lol
I have an NVIDIA GPU.
I mean headsets are expensive, not this program.
I wouldn’t have thought that a simple space wallpaper around the screen can immerse so much! I even felt it without any headset :).
Play All Games & Watch Videos In VR and get blind
It is too expensive unforutantrly. 800 euror for occulys that too much, I have the pc torun it(2500k 3,3ghz 12 gb ddr 3 1600 mhz gtx 970 g1 gaming 4gb) but currently i can not spend so much moeny for VR. With 800 euros i can buy a high end cpu more than 16 GB DDR 4 RAM and a good motherboard.
Buy some better grammar first.
I know grammar well i was typing too fast and because of that i hit some wrong keys.
I know grammar well. I was typing too fast, and because of that, I hit some wrong keys.
I cleaned it up for you.
Though I have to ask what Kelsey Grammar has anything to do with proper writing/typing skills?????
xD
He spelled “grammar” correctly. And Kelsey Grammer is the name of the actor.
It was a joke lol,
Yes, but your joke would have made sense if he had interchanged “grammar” with “Grammer”. But he didn’t.
I’m wondering… why would someone prefer this over Steam’s built-in Desktop Theater mode? This might be beneficial for Oculus Rift users, but I don’t quite understand the benefits for those who would use the Vive instead.
I remember hearing about this a while back on a VR website, Anyway looks great and definitely going to buy it next month for my Oculus ?
Unfortunately, current VR headset resolution is too low to use desktop feature effectively.
Wow, I didn’t like the OCULUS (narrow field of view, pixel-ated as hell) but this really renewed my expectations on VR again.
So still long ways off then, darn that sucks.
Anyone remember 3dna desktop?
holy fuuuu… this make me shiat on my pants and i wanted an Occulus VR now.
Been using this for over a year. It is really awesome.