Just wait a few years, and AR will let you create as many virtual monitors as you want. Monitor on your wall! Monitor on your ceiling! Monitor in your fridge! Monitors covering your windows!
I don’t understand why it’s not a thing now. Valve Index resolution is already good enough for reading virtual monitors.
Camera passthrough a small rectangular window where your desk is at. (so you can see your hands and keyboard/mouse if you need it,
And you’re done…
It’s not there. Especially not on an index.
Even on my Pimax 8k I wouldn’t want to be working off of virtual monitors.
Also 3 2k monitors is often cheaper then a lot of VR headsets.
Check out the Bigscreen Beyond. Looks very promising with micro OLED screens.
Current VR headsets don’t really produce text you’d want to read for 8 hours a day. We need “retina” level displays (which I believe even Apple hasn’t managed to pull off with their VR headset yet) that completely hide the pixels for that to work.
If you own a VR headset, there are several Linux and Windows window managers that will make this work. I believe HoloLens showcased theoretical floating windows years ago but I haven’t seen anything from HoloLens in a while, I think it went military/industrial operator exclusive.
Current VR headsets don’t really produce text you’d want to read?
Yes they do. I currently have one that is perfectly fine readable.
Yeah, I can have multiple monitors in VR setting.
But what hasn’t happened is
1 - No one has made an app with a camera passthrough window to your desk.
2 - Windows for some reason still has a problem with multi-monitors unless you actually physically have monitors mounted.
There are a whole bunch of AR glasses and even some portable VR headset window managers that have pass through. SimulaVR has a webcam window but I don’t have the hardware to properly try it out, sadly.
The VR screens I’ve used were all perfectly fine for an hour or so of gameplay, but focusing on text wouldn’t be a good experience.
Most of these applications don’t even use “monitors”, they just render Windows in a 3D space. Virtual monitors can work on Windows, but they need a dummy driver for various reasons (many of them having to do with compatibility).
Didn’t the Quest Pro do that? I think AR virtual monitors on Mac was a thing they showcased.
it’ll be a cold day in hell before I strap facebook to my body.
Well, with climate change …
people seem to forget that a 4k monitor is fine if you’re looking at it from 2 feet away, but in a vr headset it’s right in front of your eyeball. you will see the pixels
And we will be monitored too!
In that case I’ll just have my hello world code floating in mid air. No need for monitors
and in a few years + a couple of days, you’ll realize that having to turn your whole head that often gets pretty uncomfortable pretty quick
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I switched from 4x 1080p displays for work (1 over 3) to a 4k, a 1080p, and the laptop screen.
The 1080p is mostly for screenshares in meetings. Since most people don’t have 4k monitors, sharing a 4k display in a meeting is a terrible experience for everyone else.
But I’d much rather have “one big display” than the same real estate on more screens. Much more flexible with layout. A 4k monitor is the same number of pixels as 4 1080p screens, and I’ve got one 43” monitor (TV) instead of four 23”.
Legitimately what is the ultrawide monitor that’s angled on the desk below the main center monitor? I’ve been looking for one of these to use for music production
I think it’s just two monitors are creatively mounted. They are just sandwiched between two desks. Ultrawide monitors are generally curved so I doubt that it’s ultrawide.
Ah, it seems you’re right. Unfortunate. If there was a monitor in this form factor I’d instantly buy
And is it touchscreen?
I think it’s two monitors next to each other.
Wow, what a horrible setup.
I have a guy that does this. He puts so much effort in weird mobility solutions (ie: Dual monitors on a rolling table so he can work outside sometimes) or having a setup like this with TV’s, monitors etc all cobbled together.
Would you be surprised to hear hes not the most organized or efficient.
For real. It’s so much better to think about using the screen space you already have. People can do what they want, but I am happy with one screen, a tiling window manager, and workspaces. I can have a dozen or more things going on, and have it packed on a workspace. Fullscreen a window of I need to, then pop it back.
It’s incredibly efficient. I see stuff like this, and I imagine what it’s like to have text several feet away, screens covered by other screens, lots of neck fatigue, all the monitor borders… like it’s truly bad. It feels like someone watched a lot of TV and “felt” that this was the best way to do it without trying it.
Butt I digress. It’s not my setup. If they’re efficient with it, more power to them.
Yeah im similar. I still use 1080 monitors and just 2 at a regular workspace. Its about the perfect DPI for reading text. Things like 4k just make it harder or you have to bump up the fractional scaling, in which case why the more pixels?
Im fine to keep it to a laptop monitor when im mobile, and 2+laptop monitor for email when at a desk.
bro even got the RGB soundbar ⁉️
Hello Wurld
That monitor setup is making me feel all tingly. Legit question: how much would a setup like that cost?
You just need 3 largish televisions, a small TV or monitor for the top, and stuff to mount each screen in that configuration. Your PC doesn’t need to be that good unless you are doing something like gaming, just enough to run 4 1080p windows. Once you connect them, it’s fairly easy to adjust the configuration in Windows to extend and rotate the monitors to make the setup work. Depending on how you get the televisions (you can buy them used, flat screen 1080p TVs have been popular for a long time and are relatively affordable) and how you decide to mount them, you can build this setup for only a couple hundred
Can you even still buy 1080p televisions?
Can find some great deals at thrift shops if you’re not too picky about resolution!
Trying to buy a smallish TV recently for my bedroom and most were hdready ballshit
Your comment makes me think you’d like this meme I found the other day
Bahaha yes exactly
I felt loneliness when my third monitor broke, can confirm.
