The integration of Home and Windows desktop is simply incredible.
But it’s an overkill for the current Oculus with its dated resolution.
Now will it be usable for Pimax?
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Probably not, there might be a hack like revive for it eventually but even then it looks like Dash utilises touch gestures which might be tricky with other controllers.
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The real hope is that oculus dash isn’t merely capturing desktop windows, but actually deriving it direct from windows at low level. Also dang I wish oculus would just open up their ecosystem.
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Too bad oculus are the type to not create open standards. It will just create a proprietary wall where they will attempt to mine you for every cent you have in the ecosystem and you will have to pay again for stuff you already have in steam.
Now , now lets not pile on oculus . last I heard windows MR hasn’t opened up its Home interface either.
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Yeah, Dash is actually working on a low level and not just capturing the screen.
In fact you can create more desktops/tabs than the count of monitors that you pysically have.
This is really exciting for lots of different work scenarios! I hope that Pimax will support this in the future, too.
Too bad there trying to market it as a desktop replacement with such low rea.
I read awhile back oculus opened up their tracking system kinda like steam… But i presume only to make accessories? They did this a little while after steam did.
Did anyone read up on it?
Okay looks like for peripherals only. Lol
They make these preview videos with terribly understated true visuals.
We know damn well that desktop usage looks horrible but there she is looking at an Facebook page, acting like it’s not fuzzed out.
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I’ve spent the last couple of nights playing with it and it’s cool and all, but I just keep thinking about how amazing this would look on my 4K … and on the 8k!
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Have you tried it? I have, the desktop isn’t fuzzed out at all, it is perfectly readable, useable, and sharp, especially in the curved view. If you’ve tried Virtual Desktop, note that this is an order of magnitude better. Oculus is using something they call a “Cylindrical Timewarp Layer”, which first of all they supersample the heck out of (Oculus layers allow them to set different resolutions per layer), but more importantly it’s a rendering method that lets them have an almost constant pixel density across the window at all angles. It’s something John Carmack came up with.
The Dash Desktop view does not surpass the Pimax 4K’s Desktop visuals on my side nor is Zoom needed as much to get a clearer image.
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I didn’t say it does or would, what I said was the new Dash Desktop on an Oculus Rift does not look fuzzy, blurry, or hard to read, not for Facebook, web browsing, even reading these forums. With no “zoom” needed (not sure what “zoom” would be, considering it’s a virtual screen, that you can set to emulate anything from a 24” monitor at normal sitting distance to a movie screen a few meters away). The video is not misleading in the slightest, at the distance/size from the viewer in the video, Facebook would be perfectly useable, and it’s quite presumptuous for someone who has not tried it to accuse Oculus of faking it in such a negative tone.
Owner of Rift CV1 and it’s just my opinion on what Dash Desktop looked like to me while wagering it against the Pimax 4K.
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Then maybe you should have said that, rather than calling Oculus liars and making incorrect statements about what the person in the video would have seen (I mean, Pimax 4k hadn’t been mentioned at all in this thread, so to everyone you just sounded like someone dumping on Oculus).