I was trying to recreate my desktop, I have 4 2560x1440 monitors and 1 4k core monitor. Even with direct connect on my occulus to my laptop with a 2nd wifi, I was getting 5-30ms latency and lots of hiccups. It wasn't pleasent, definitely not as pleasent as just setting up a travel dell 2560x1440 monitor and nothing on the new 4k 17" I just picked up for $300 on amazon.
The gpu on my laptop was also on fire and the machine was sluggish due to gpu issues, thermal issues, network issues.
It was also a less pleasant and less quality experience than real physical monitors. I also tried it with my index on the beast desktop I have that has those physical monitors turning the monitors off and putting in dummy plugs (same as laptop).
It sucked, my neck hurt, it was laggy, hard to position monitors which I had to do every time I set it up, and the resolution sucked compared to a physical monitor, and don't get me started on fots let alon comparing it to 43" 4k monitor.
I spent a decent amount of time in discord with immersed trying to get it to work. It's just not meant to be currently. And for the same price as a occulus, same weight, smaller footprint (the occulus is huge in a backpack, a tablet monitor is just and extra half inch of laptop), I get a much better experience. Also my neck doesn't hurt, I can see the world, and it's much higher res.
Everyone's experience is different in VR, there are people working in immersed 8+ hours a day without issue. Sounds like you didn't enjoy it and want to blow off a little steam
The original links, if you look, are about their new hardware, which is ultra-lightweight, and higher res, 4k per eye
I'm not trying to travel with external monitors, hence why I'm looking for a virtual solution, and this looks quite promising
I'm not blowing off steam I'm sharing my lives experience with a previous versions on older hardware. I was about 10 seconds from buying the initial prototype kick start. I'm very aware of the proposed specs which they currently are not shipping due to supply and find constraints.
I don't have anything against immersed. I chatted with them several times and gave feedback every time. They're nice folks. I'm not sure they're gonna ship. And after that experience I'm also pessimistic on vr for desktop for several years at minimum.
And travel monitors are just gonna get better. My m2pro is already light, the externals I can see getting half the weight, 4k and possibly wireless. That'd be more compute in a smaller space and lighter weight than that Dell desktop replacement I plugged around in 2003, and smaller but heavier than the simula. I haven't had a chance to try foveated text on 8k but my math says it's lower density than 4k at arms length on a 17 or 27 monitor so but let's call that a win.
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It sounds like a problem with your network.
Your graphics card should be encoding the video.
I was trying to recreate my desktop, I have 4 2560x1440 monitors and 1 4k core monitor. Even with direct connect on my occulus to my laptop with a 2nd wifi, I was getting 5-30ms latency and lots of hiccups. It wasn't pleasent, definitely not as pleasent as just setting up a travel dell 2560x1440 monitor and nothing on the new 4k 17" I just picked up for $300 on amazon.
The gpu on my laptop was also on fire and the machine was sluggish due to gpu issues, thermal issues, network issues.
It was also a less pleasant and less quality experience than real physical monitors. I also tried it with my index on the beast desktop I have that has those physical monitors turning the monitors off and putting in dummy plugs (same as laptop).
It sucked, my neck hurt, it was laggy, hard to position monitors which I had to do every time I set it up, and the resolution sucked compared to a physical monitor, and don't get me started on fots let alon comparing it to 43" 4k monitor.
I spent a decent amount of time in discord with immersed trying to get it to work. It's just not meant to be currently. And for the same price as a occulus, same weight, smaller footprint (the occulus is huge in a backpack, a tablet monitor is just and extra half inch of laptop), I get a much better experience. Also my neck doesn't hurt, I can see the world, and it's much higher res.
Everyone's experience is different in VR, there are people working in immersed 8+ hours a day without issue. Sounds like you didn't enjoy it and want to blow off a little steam
The original links, if you look, are about their new hardware, which is ultra-lightweight, and higher res, 4k per eye
I'm not trying to travel with external monitors, hence why I'm looking for a virtual solution, and this looks quite promising
I'm not blowing off steam I'm sharing my lives experience with a previous versions on older hardware. I was about 10 seconds from buying the initial prototype kick start. I'm very aware of the proposed specs which they currently are not shipping due to supply and find constraints.
I don't have anything against immersed. I chatted with them several times and gave feedback every time. They're nice folks. I'm not sure they're gonna ship. And after that experience I'm also pessimistic on vr for desktop for several years at minimum.
And travel monitors are just gonna get better. My m2pro is already light, the externals I can see getting half the weight, 4k and possibly wireless. That'd be more compute in a smaller space and lighter weight than that Dell desktop replacement I plugged around in 2003, and smaller but heavier than the simula. I haven't had a chance to try foveated text on 8k but my math says it's lower density than 4k at arms length on a 17 or 27 monitor so but let's call that a win.
So equivalent experience.