SteamVR Beta Lets You Arrange Desktop Windows Inside Your Virtual World (theverge.com) 8
As of its latest beta release, Valve's SteamVR software can add floating desktop windows inside VR games, letting you keep an eye on other apps without leaving VR. The Verge reports: It's a helpful addition, allowing players to keep an eye on anything from Discord, to a Twitch chat, or Netflix during a lower-intensity game. Road to VR suggests you could even watch YouTube during longer flights in Elite Dangerous.
The ability to interact with the rest of your desktop from within SteamVR's dashboard is not a new feature, but recently Valve has been making the system more flexible. Earlier this year it added the option to view individual application windows in the dashboard, and to be virtually attached to VR controllers ingame. This made apps viewable at a glance, but until now it lacked the ability to float windows persistently ingame. With the latest release, you can still opt to have a window attached to your controller, or pull it off to have it float in virtual space. The windows are view-only while you're actually playing a game, but you can open up the SteamVR menu to interact with them using a VR controller as a mouse pointer.
The ability to interact with the rest of your desktop from within SteamVR's dashboard is not a new feature, but recently Valve has been making the system more flexible. Earlier this year it added the option to view individual application windows in the dashboard, and to be virtually attached to VR controllers ingame. This made apps viewable at a glance, but until now it lacked the ability to float windows persistently ingame. With the latest release, you can still opt to have a window attached to your controller, or pull it off to have it float in virtual space. The windows are view-only while you're actually playing a game, but you can open up the SteamVR menu to interact with them using a VR controller as a mouse pointer.
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GitS or SAO?
No. (Score:2)
Can we have different options than God it Sucks and Sucks Ass Online? ;)
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I only watch Sucks Ass Online for the plot, I swear!
Pat (Score:2)
There was some old Battlezone game that let you see a movie on the face of its cubes IIRC, long ago.
I wondered why nobody did this in games, either on an object "in the world", or on a "screen" as part of the HUD. I always assumed some ass had a patent on that idea.
nice suggestion except ... (Score:2)
Road to VR suggests you could even watch YouTube during longer flights in Elite Dangerous.
... people have been doing this for ages (albeit not with steamvr), too bad that the game's vr support is so neglected and on the fence.
Sounds good, but (Score:2)