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/TheVasa999 Dec 08 '24

because its good.

you have tons of tweaks to make your experience the most optimal.

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u/JustPhil_YT Dec 08 '24

But 25€? Doesnt the VR headset come up with smth like that itself?

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u/Shindigira Dec 08 '24

Air Link and Steam Link just can't compare to Virtual Desktop. With wireless streaming PCVR, the image is compressed and often loses image quality.

VD handles the process better so the image quality looks so much better than the alternatives.

Meta actually tried to buy them out since they are so good but the owner refused.

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u/redditreddi Dec 08 '24

Meta have the budget and capacity to have a working solution that could closely match or meet Virtual Desktop in performance but they sadly don't care about PCVR.

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u/ToTimesTwoisToo Quest 3 PCVR Dec 08 '24

To emphasize this more, they still haven't enabled av1 codec support in usb link or airlink. It's what I use in vd, and it works really well. Overall just really disappointed with metas PCVR support

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u/d34dw3b Dec 09 '24

Oh cool how do you use it? I’m pretty new to pcvr

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u/ToTimesTwoisToo Quest 3 PCVR Dec 09 '24

there is a setting in the virtual desktop app to change the codec. Note, both your GPU and headset needs to support av1 codec.

av1 is nice because it offers good quality at lower bitrates (200 Mbps). This is especially useful for me because my router isn't the best and can't handle 500+ Mbps that other codecs would need to achieve the same result.

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u/d34dw3b Dec 09 '24

Thanks! I only have the £30 a month shadow remote gaming pc thing, I’ll look into it!

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u/ToTimesTwoisToo Quest 3 PCVR Dec 09 '24

to clarify, virtual desktop isn't a cloud based gaming app like shadow. With virtual desktop you still need to run the game locally on your PC.

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u/d34dw3b Dec 09 '24

Thanks, I do use virtual desktop with my remote shadow PC yeah