A developer has submitted a draft to the KDE team for KWin to hook up a full Plasma VR mode and it looks pretty awesome. As it’s currently a draft, it needs plenty more work before being accepted but the idea behind it and how it looks has me quite interested.

Could be something fun for the Steam Frame too.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      That’s pretty slick.

      It looks like they’re ‘just’ creating 2d planes and attaching Wayland Surface or TopLevel (Desktop, App, respectively).

      I use XSOverlay and you can attach individual windows to the overlay (VR Smartwatch, kinda). This seems like a much more in-depth extension of that.

      Attaching individual applications is way better than the whole desktop in my experience. The desktop experience works well with a high resolution monitor… but in VR headsets you’re still resolution limited, so having JUST the application window can make it much easier to read/navigate.

      The only feature that I would like is the ability to pin windows to specific locations. I’d like to be able to pin a HomeAssistant application window over my thermostat, or have a monitor displaying the feed from my security camera next to my front door, etc.

      There are already virtual desktop applications that can do the desktop/windows trick, but they all seem to be anchored on you instead of being aware of the space that you’re in.

  • Krafting@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Seems like a valve money backed project, would be surprise if this is not on the steam frame (maybe not at launch but later on)

    • Björn@swg-empire.de
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      2 days ago

      With the way they were talking I thought it already WAS working and that this PR just published the code.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Maybe working but not published into the public releases. Probably will continue to be worked on until Steam Frame is about to go on sale.

  • Bosht@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    This is part of the reason I want to get a Bigscreen Beyond 2. I’d love to have a VR headset light enough to try and do VR desktop just to see how functional it is for work. Currently I have the Vive Pro 2 and that shit is heavy. Also does anyone have a recommended VR desktop app? The one in the article isn’t released yet right?