Desktop+

Desktop+ is a utility application for SteamVR enabling you advanced access to your desktops and windows from within VR. Pull your screen into the VR world, attach windows to your controllers, view 3D content, and more.

Desktop+ is a powerful, yet lightweight tool for SteamVR bringing your desktops and windows into the VR world. No matter if you just need a more reliable desktop view in your dashboard or a complex context-aware multi-overlay setup with custom shortcuts, Desktop+ offers a wide array of tweakable settings to make the overlays fit your needs.

Features

  • User interface with real-time adjustments accessible in VR or on desktop
  • Smooth, low-latency mirroring of desktops and windows
  • Low memory footprint and performance impact
  • Support for creating as many overlays as SteamVR allows at once
  • Customizable overlay settings (width, position, curvature, opacity, brightness, cropping), with switchable profiles
  • 3D support (SBS, HSBS, OU, HOU)
  • Overlay visibility and origin settings: Display a desktop/window during gameplay or attach it to a different origin (play space, seated position, dashboard, HMD, controllers, tracker, SteamVR Theater Screen)
  • Actions: User-definable functions (input simulation, running applications, overlay control) which can be bound to controller or UI buttons
  • Custom laser pointer implementation, allowing for non-blocking overlay interaction during gameplay
  • Configurable PC-style VR keyboard with various layouts and a keyboard layout editor for deeper customization, appearing automatically when detecting text input widget focus
  • Elevated access toggle, making it possible to deal with UAC prompts and other UIP-restricted UI in VR without using full admin-access at all times
  • Gaze Fade: Fade-out overlay when not looking at it
  • Window management: Change window focus depending on overlay/dashboard state or drag overlays when dragging the title bar of a mirrored window
  • Performance Monitor: View system performance in real-time
  • Application profiles: Automatically switch overlay profiles when a specific VR application is being run