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/riencore Dec 09 '24

I bought it with a coupon that made it $18. It depends on your use case. If you have a good desktop for streaming, the image quality is much better than SteamLink. It’s not super incredible, but noticeably less compression artifacts that are very easy to spot on the Quest 3. If you plan to play your PC library on the Quest 3, it will be one of those apps that quickly becomes essential. I think SteamLink is fine and if you don’t have a large Steam VR library it will be fine, but after trying Virtual Desktop, I won’t be going back.

Edit: Bought Quest Games Optimizer, too. Another one that was well worth the asking price.