Digital Desktop now helps a number of displays.
Digital Desktop is commonly regarded as an app for streaming PC VR to standalone headsets, now thought-about its flagship function, however its different and unique objective is to stream your PC displays as 2D digital surfaces.
However whereas alternate options like Horizon Workrooms and Immersed help streaming a number of displays without delay, as will Microsoft’s personal upcoming Quest app, Digital Desktop solely supported one after the other. The most recent replace modifications that for all supported headsets besides the unique Oculus Quest.
What number of displays are supported will depend on the headset. Meta Quest 3 is the one headset that may help 3 displays without delay. On Quest 2, Quest Professional, Pico 4, Pico Neo 3, Vive Focus 3, and Vive XR Elite solely 2 displays are supported.
Decision-wise, Quest 3 can stream one monitor at 4K or a number of at 1440p, whereas most different headsets are restricted to 1440p for one monitor or 1080p for a number of, and Quest 1 can solely deal with a single 1080p monitor.
The developer Man Godin tells UploadVR these limitations exist as a result of Digital Desktop renders displays “on the highest potential high quality, in a sRGB appropriate method” and makes use of “the supersampling filtering approach developed by Carmack”. Solely the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chipset in Quest 3 has the GPU horsepower to do that for 3 displays concurrently.
| Quest 3 | Quest 2 & Professional Pico, Vive |
Quest 1 | |
| Screens | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Max Decision (Single Monitor) |
3840×2160 | 2560×1440 | 1920×1080 |
| Max Decision (Multi Screens) |
2560×1440 per monitor |
1920×1080 per monitor |
N/A |
For all headsets, the streaming bitrate additionally will depend on the variety of displays used. You’ll be able to stream one monitor at 120mbps, two displays at 60mbps every, or three displays at 40mbps every.
On Home windows the additional displays might be solely digital, as with Horizon Workrooms and Immersed. Meaning you might, for instance, flip a laptop computer right into a digital triple monitor setup.
On Mac digital displays aren’t “but” supported, however Godin tells UploadVR you should use third-party options like BetterDisplay for this.
In addition to including a number of monitor help, the brand new replace brings the next extra minor modifications, together with keyboard passthrough on Quest:
• Added checkbox in Settings tab to auto-arrange displays on recenter (enabled by default)
• Added button in Settings tab to rearrange displays manually
• Added keyboard passthrough help on Quest (with the keyboards Meta helps)
• Improved help for Home windows on Arm
• Thumbstick can now be used to alter dimension/distance when holding display screen with grip
• Now you can transfer the keyboard when holding the grip
• Added portrait mode button within the display screen toolbar for secondary screens (Home windows solely)
• Switched to utilizing relative mouse actions with Bluetooth trackpads/mice
• Mounted microphone delay points that some of us had been experiencing
• Desktop toolbar will not seem when clicking beneath the display screen with hand monitoring. It will likely be proven when utilizing the Quest menu left hand gesture as a substitute
• Mounted sport compatibility with: The Wizards – Darkish Occasions, The seventh Visitor, Roblox, Gravity Sketch, Crossfire: Sierra Squad, Zenith the final metropolis, Resist, Underdog, Walkabout Mini-golf, Breachers, WRC, Ghosts of Tabor, Contractors, Hubris now utilizing VDXR by default
• Mounted index finger bending in VRChat when holding the controller
• Mounted many compatibility points with VDXR
• Digital Vive trackers can now be powered off/on through SteamVR Handle Trackers (use “Held in hand” position to energy off) without having to restart SteamVR
Should you’re a present Horizon Workrooms or Immersed consumer and do this replace, tell us within the feedback beneath how the standard, latency, and stability compares.
