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Virtual Desktop's New macOS Update Is Smoother Than Apple's Mac Virtual Display (www.uploadvr.com)

submitted 1 day ago by MyOpinion@lemm.ee to c/virtualreality@lemmy.world

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Virtual Desktop rewrote its macOS streamer from scratch, letting you spawn extra monitors and offering higher framerate and lower latency than even Apple's Mac Virtual Display.

While Virtual Desktop doesn't support its now-flagship PC VR streaming feature on macOS, since neither Meta's PC VR runtime nor Valve's SteamVR even support macOS, it does stream your monitors as 2D virtual surfaces, which was actually the app's original feature before VR streaming.

Since June of last year, Virtual Desktop has even been able to spawn extra monitors for Windows PCs, but doing so on macOS required using third-party solutions like BetterDisplay. Now, with the new update, Virtual Desktop, can do this on macOS itself.

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[–] AutoPastry@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Virtual Desktop is a little pricey but I'd buy it again in a heartbeat. Would love if they supported Linux though

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago

Yes! ALVR works, but the entirety of the settings in Virtual Desktop is reachable from the device itself, no need to remove it to change the those that don’t require a restart.