One use I can think of is Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes, I played that on a Vive like ten years ago and it needed one screen to run on the headset (for the bomb-handler) and one to run on the desktop (for the instruction-reader). Having other people see what you’re seeing is probably a much more common use case though!
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tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
I’m wondering why you want to do this? Is it just so other people can see what the user is seeing?
I do not have a frame ($ plus I already have vr) but I can usually just see the game I’m playing on the tv that is already hooked up to the pc. Also, if you have this setup you can usually go into your display settings and duplicate the chosen screen and the vr goggles should count as one?
smeg@feddit.uk 6 days ago
python@lemmy.world 6 days ago
My hope was that I could just plug the frame into my dock and use it as a little standalone desktop with monitor and mouse/keyboard. I’ve been fiddling with a bit of VR game development these past few days and thought that it might be neat to write code right inside the Frames desktop (my usual IDE runs totally fine in there) so that it’s instantly accessible and I don’t need to upload or stream my code to the headset.
It’s not much of a problem to do that of course, but if it did work completely standalone it would be such a cool and simple way to let people try programming. I sometimes supervise student interns at work and making a little VR thing would be a super interesting task for them.
tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Oh, that’s neat.