Windows Archives - Tech Research Online Knowledge Base for IT Pros Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:36:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.5 https://techresearchonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/full-black-d_favicon-70-70.png Windows Archives - Tech Research Online 32 32 Beta Version of SteamVR Will Allow You to Arrange Windows Inside Virtual World https://techresearchonline.com/news/beta-version-of-steamvr-will-allow-you-to-arrange-windows-inside-virtual-world/ https://techresearchonline.com/news/beta-version-of-steamvr-will-allow-you-to-arrange-windows-inside-virtual-world/#respond Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:10:17 +0000 https://techresearchonline.com/?p=43749 Valve’s SteamVR software might add a feature for floating desktop windows inside VR games in its latest beta release. This will give you more freedom to track your other apps without ever needing to leave VR.    The new feature will also allow players to keep an eye on anything from Discord, to Netflix, to a Twitch chat during a lower-intensity game.    Road to VR suggests will even suggest you watch YouTube videos during longer your flights in Elite Dangerous.   Recently Valve has been making the system more flexible but the ability to interact with the desktop is not a new feature from within SteamVR’s dashboard.    Earlier this year, the company added the option to view individual application windows to be virtually attached. This will control VR users and made apps viewable at a glance in the dashboard in the game. But, till now it could not float windows persistently in the game.   You will be able to still opt to have a window attached to your controller with the latest release or opt to pull it off to have to float it in virtual space.    While you’re playing a game, the windows are view-only but you can interact with it by opening …

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Valve’s SteamVR software might add a feature for floating desktop windows inside VR games in its latest beta release. This will give you more freedom to track your other apps without ever needing to leave VR.   

The new feature will also allow players to keep an eye on anything from Discord, to Netflix, to a Twitch chat during a lower-intensity game.   

Road to VR suggests will even suggest you watch YouTube videos during longer your flights in Elite Dangerous.  

Recently Valve has been making the system more flexible but the ability to interact with the desktop is not a new feature from within SteamVR’s dashboard.   

Earlier this year, the company added the option to view individual application windows to be virtually attached. This will control VR users and made apps viewable at a glance in the dashboard in the game. But, till now it could not float windows persistently in the game.  

You will be able to still opt to have a window attached to your controller with the latest release or opt to pull it off to have to float it in virtual space.   

While you’re playing a game, the windows are view-only but you can interact with it by opening up the SteamVR menu them using a VR controller as a mouse pointer. The new floating windows are available on SteamVR as of version 1.19.6.   

Currently, this software version is available in beta, but you can opt-in via SteamVR’s properties window.   

Despite all the new features, there’s still no sign of version 2.0 being added to the VR platform that was teased early last year of SteamVR that Valve.  

Also Read: Microsoft Will Integrate Spotify In Windows 11

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