VRFocus will continue its coverage of Virtual Desktop, reporting back with the latest updates. And some decent WiFi without too many obstructions to ensure a smooth gameplay experience. Obviously, it should go without saying that you’ll need a VR-capable PC to run any of the awesome videogames you own (or want to buy) without the worry of a cable. Virtual Desktop is available through the Oculus Quest store for £14.99 GBP. With the Vudu app, users of the Oculus VR devices can rent or buy more than 200,000 titles on the service and watch them in a dynamic, theater-like audio and video experience, according to. Changed Sliced Encoding and Microphone Passthrough to be enabled by default.Added Wi-Fi speed information, runtime used by game and GPU name to the Performance Overlay.Screenshots taken on your Quest while using Virtual Desktop are now automatically transferred to your desktop (Windows only for now).Added multi-account support in the Streamer app (Windows only for now).So that means you can wirelessly stream your favourite PC VR titles like Half-Life: Alyx or Phasmophobia for example.Īs for the other update additions in Virtual Desktop v1.20: Thankfully, even App Lab wasn’t needed as Godin announced the rollout today of Virtual Desktop 1.20, finally adding PC streaming as an official feature. He then submitted the app to Oculus’ new App Lab once that launched which would’ve made the process easier.

Thus making the process more complicated than it needed to be.

With the community up in arms, the developer offered a workaround via a patch that needed to be sideloaded from SideQuest. That 2019 launch happened in May, it was in June that Facebook caused an uproar by requesting the feature be removed. Now it’s back, officially through the Oculus Quest store with no sideloading required. In 2019 the app came to Oculus Quest allowing wireless PC streaming but the feature was subsequently removed. Guy Godin’s Virtual Desktophas been around since 2016, originally allowing PC users to use their computers in VR.

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