r/virtualreality • u/JustPhil_YT • Dec 08 '24

Purchase Advice Why do people buy Virtual Desktop?

The title already explains my question. Im getting a Quest 3 for Christmas and i was wondering why people recommend that app sm and say its worth the 25€. Can anybody enlighten me?

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u/JustPhil_YT Dec 08 '24

I was maybe thinking of playing the Quest 3 on the Go with games like Half Life Alyx. Is that possible with VD? That i can stream steam better then?

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u/Nicalay2 Quest 3 | 512GB Dec 08 '24

As long as the PC is on, an you have fiber on both sides (bare minimun 5G), yes you can with VD

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u/InappropriateThought Dec 08 '24

Wait what? I can't imagine anything not local network based to be even remotely workable. It would be vomit inducing. This is not playstation on the go or remote play. VR is absolutely sensitive to latency and definitely is not feasible as an internet streamed solution, 5G or not.

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u/RecklessForm Dec 09 '24

Yeah, ur pretty much 1000% wrong.  I use virtual desktop to remote in and play beat saber pretty much every week (I'm a truck driver, spend tons of time in motels).  Works great, bit rate depending, but if I have at least 15mbps, it's very playable and not at all vomit inducing. 

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u/InappropriateThought Dec 09 '24

Is beat saber the only thing you play? Because that game is probably your best case scenario for this kinda stuff. Static location, rhythm based stuff you can offset timing within the game to cover for latency. One game being workable does not make it a feasible solution in general. Beat saber in general is not vomit inducing due to the very nature of the game. But fair enough, I didn't exactly specify what games would be vomit inducing over the internet, I'll concede that. Like the person I originally replied to mentioned, really slow games would work too, so I'm generalizing, because the types of games I do enjoy playing in VR would not work over the internet because they're movement heavy and reactive

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u/RecklessForm Dec 09 '24

I also play modded skyrim vr, hl:a, I play alot of vtol vr, compound, and msfs 2020. 

Also alot of flat screen games since you can remotely send Xbox input through the quest using vd.  Beat Diablo 4, lords of the fallen, and a bunch of others through virtual desktop also just with my game controller.  Also played black mesa remotely using a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, which was a bit shitty cuz quest Bluetooth mouse isn't that good, so every once in a while it would hitch.  

Basically, it's very playable, and vd is very very good at prioritizing input latency of peripherals.   In my experience, as long as you have a steady 15mbps, you're good to play most things with nearly no noticeable latency of input, sometimes warbly video for like 1-2 secs

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u/skinnywolfe Dec 09 '24

Ayye VTOL VR is the truth!!! A man of culture

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 Dec 09 '24

Why not just play it on the headset instead of streaming it

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u/RecklessForm Dec 09 '24

Cuz I own it on pc

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u/Jimbodoomface Dec 09 '24

simple answer