To watch a movie inside your cabin? Yes, you can!

M. Volgrand · Nov 18, 2016

So, my dear commanders: Have you ever taken a long, long journey into the void? Have you ever removed your VR sets to be able to watch a movie during the countless jumps heading towards your final destination? Have you ever wished you could do that... from your ship?

Dream no more! Your answer is "Open Vr Desktop Display Portal"!

https://github.com/Hotrian/OpenVRDesktopDisplayPortal

This simple open source app will pop an screen inside your virtual world! You can either make it fixed to your headset (so it will always be in the same position in front of you) or fix it to the VR world... And Boy! Oh boy that is a joy!

I can't post an image at present (have to figure out how to do an screen cap that shows also the added screen) but I have it fixed on the top left of my cabin. Changing some config settings, it is 80% transparent when I am not staring at it, and becomes fully opaque when I stare at it.

It has made my travel to Colonia a lot more amusing!

Hope you enjoy

X-Terminator · Nov 18, 2016

Oh boy I can now watch music vids whilst trading

[video=youtube;2-nAIR0k3Q8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-nAIR0k3Q8[/video]

(Buddy Holly's song does have worrying connotations after the likes of Gary Glitter)

Sanderson · Nov 18, 2016

[video=youtube;087aSzrf-kw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=087aSzrf-kw[/video]

AdioKIP · Nov 18, 2016

I've been using this for about a month and LOVE it. Makes long trips so much better. Nothing like watching football in my ASP on sundays.

[HJ]-RedRaven · Nov 18, 2016

Cool - Is something like Inara etc readable in this app?

M. Volgrand · Nov 18, 2016

[HJ]-RedRaven said:
Cool - Is something like Inara etc readable in this app?

I have not tried it, but I guess you will need to play a lot with the settings and the zoom to be able to read it. I would invite you to download the APP, try it yourself and then post feedback to de dev

AstroCreep · Nov 18, 2016

Aside from seeing Gwen Stefani 6 feet away from me on stage at Brixton Academy with No Doubt back in 2002, this is single handedly the 2nd greatest thing I've ever seen!

777Driver · Nov 18, 2016

Any frame hit or restrictions like Win10 only?

CylonSurfer · Nov 18, 2016

Does this work on the Rift? Or is it the app that requires Rift users to use SteamVR? If its the later then that ain't gonna happen! I'd continue to use the V Beta.

EDIT: Yeah it is the app that requires Rift users to launch via SteamVR. I'll give it a miss but thanks OP.

For anyone interested V is now in open Beta: http://www.hellov.io/

dape · Nov 18, 2016

This is probably a dumb question... but anyway...

what exactly is SteamVR? Haven't been in the PC gaming business for 15 years and just came back because of ED

I bought ED on the frontier shop, play it via the ED Launcher, found out after getting a Rift that i could get a key to open ED via Oculus home (but i don't).

CylonSurfer · Nov 18, 2016

dape said:
This is probably a dumb question... but anyway...

what exactly is SteamVR? Haven't been in the PC gaming business for 15 years and just came back because of ED
I bought ED on the frontier shop, play it via the ED Launcher, found out after getting a Rift that i could get a key to open ED via Oculus home (but i don't).

SteamVR is the runtime the Vive uses. Rift users can also run Elite from Steam, which gives them the option to run via the Oculus runtime or SteamVR runtime. If you use a Rift you would not want to use SteamVR as it is inferior in its current state.

-VR- Max Factor · Nov 18, 2016

dape said:
This is probably a dumb question... but anyway...

what exactly is SteamVR? Haven't been in the PC gaming business for 15 years and just came back because of ED
I bought ED on the frontier shop, play it via the ED Launcher, found out after getting a Rift that i could get a key to open ED via Oculus home (but i don't).

You don't need an oculus key to run ED with the Rift. Look up the many posts here to see how.

dape · Nov 18, 2016

CylonSurfer said:
SteamVR is the runtime the Vive uses. Rift users can also run Elite from Steam, which gives them the option to run via the Oculus runtime or SteamVR runtime. If you use a Rift you would not want to use SteamVR as it is inferior in its current state.

I am using a Rift. Thanks for for explaining!

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Max Factor said:
You don't need an oculus key to run ED with the Rift. Look up the many posts here to see how.

I did get a "free" key form frontier to be able to play ED via Oculus Home, but when it started downloading the complete 8G again I just quit the process.
Works just fine using the standard Frontier ED Launcher.

M. Volgrand · Nov 19, 2016

777Driver said:
Any frame hit or restrictions like Win10 only?

It is still in beta and the video capture has FPS problems. In my case I fix it by reducing the screen size via the app menu to 1000 width and maintaining the relation to the height. With that I have a reasonable sized screen inside my cabin and FPS are about 20 to 25; slightly sluggish at times, but not a big deal.

CATPAIN KIRK · Nov 19, 2016

M. Volgrand said:
I can't post an image at present (have to figure out how to do an screen cap that shows also the added screen) but I have it fixed on the top left of my cabin. Changing some config settings, it is 80% transparent when I am not staring at it, and becomes fully opaque when I stare at it.

Just enable the display mirror in steamVR and capture from there using OBS - no frame hit for me. I've been using it for about six weeks and finally get to do all the stuff I mostly considered too boring as a sole activity - really learnt to appreciate mining and easily watched >100 hours of video using it. From within the Vive, the screen easily appears bigger than the 55" TV roughly in the same positon in RL:

[video=youtube;GV_SuVlfvi4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV_SuVlfvi4&feature=youtu.be[/video]