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VR Toolbox: 360 Desktop - Your Immersive VR Workspace

Unlock the full potential of your VR headset with VR Toolbox: 360 Desktop, the ultimate VR productivity tool. Transform your virtual reality experience into a powerful and customizable workspace. Create a personalized VR desktop environment where you can seamlessly manage multiple applications, browse the web, watch videos, and even play your favorite desktop games, all without ever leaving your headset.

Key Features

VR Toolbox: 360 Desktop boasts an array of features designed to boost your VR multitasking capabilities:

• Create massive, customizable screens tailored to your exact needs.
• Desktop mirroring: Access your existing monitors (including your laptop screen) within VR.
• Web screens: Quickly access your favorite websites like YouTube, Facebook, and Skype.
• Multimedia support: Display images (including stereo .jps and .mpo), videos, PDFs, and text files directly within your VR environment. Simply drag and drop!
• Individual Windows app screens: Detach and manage individual applications independently within VR.
• One-click YouTube 360 in 4K: Immerse yourself in stunning 360° videos with ease.
• Comprehensive video support: Enjoy 2D, 3D (SBS/TB), 180°, and 360° video content.
• Focus Mode (CTRL+SHIFT+F): Enhance multi-tasking and readability for improved VR productivity.
• Blended Reality (Vive only): See your hands, keyboard, and drink while remaining immersed in VR.
• Built-in VR keyboard: Seamlessly type and interact within your virtual space.
• Extensive customization: Decorate your VR space with built-in props, rooms, and personal images. Expand your collection with additional props from the Steam Workshop.
• Vive tracker support: Enhance your tracking capabilities for a more immersive experience.
• Direct3D 11 injector: Play your favorite desktop games at 90 FPS within VR Toolbox with minimal performance impact.
• First-person shooter mode: Dive into your games with unparalleled immersive experience.

Once detached, an app doesn't need to be kept visible on the desktop anymore. If an app detaches as black (i.e., Chrome / MS Word), turn off hardware acceleration in the app

Configuration

Please follow the guide to set up Steam / SteamVR.

Watching YouTube 360 in 4k and Twitch requires opening them on a web screen and 64-bit 2.2.8 VLC to be installed on the system (not compatible with 3.x VLC). Get it here.

Controller Buttons

Menu button (joystick click on Oculus):

• Single click: Per-prop menu
• Double click: Global menu (to add screens / props, etc.)
• Click and hold: Detach the app under the pointer onto its own VR screen (available on Desktop PCs with Win 8.1 / Win 10 only)

Trigger - grab a prop

Grip button - reorient a prop

Left click on touchpad (B on Oculus) - left mouse click

Right click on touchpad (A on Oculus) - right mouse click

Hotkeys

Hold CTRL+SHIFT and:

C - Wrap a screen on a cylinder around the camera (can reach very high curvature)

F - Focus a screen

L - Lock the camera translation (could be useful for backgrounds with nearby objects)

P - Detach an app into its own screen

R - Crop a desktop screen to the currently focused app

S - Resize a screen

W - Use a webcam as a beer cam

3 - Toggle the stereo / 3D mode of a screen

F1 - Turn on/off mouse cursor

F2 - Recenter view

F3 - Change stereo mode

F4 - Toggle camera pass-through

F5 - Turn controllers on/off

F8 - Take screenshot

F9 - Debug textures / lighting

F10 - Wireframe

F11 - Camera stabilization for video recordings

F12 - Toggle the mirror view window

Arrow keys - move around the scene

Space - Toggle first-person mode

Guides

VR Toolbox is user-extensible. Check out the guides section:

Issues

We try to thoroughly test, but an issue might go undetected. If you have a problem with VR Toolbox, please post in the discussion forums and I'll help / address it. You can subscribe to the beta branch to get the latest and greatest features and give your feedback in the forum as well.

Chrome on some systems detaches from the desktop as a black screen. If it happens for you, please try Firefox.