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.
Virtual Desktop is a little pricey but I’d buy it again in a heartbeat. Would love if they supported Linux though
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.
I’d never looked into this much, but I could use this to connect to my Mac while sitting in a recliner and play Civilization or something?
In theory yes. The Mac version is just a remote desktop solution, no VR so a game like Civ where you can do everything with the mouse should be doable. Not sure if using a gamepad connected to the headset would work as that’s a few extra layers of complexity… but not a real concern for Civ, am I right? XD
