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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, 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, dashboard, HMD, controllers, tracker)
- Actions: User-definable functions (input simulation, running applications) which can be bound to controller or UI buttons
- Keyboard Extension, enabling use of modifier, arrow and function keys from the SteamVR keyboard
- 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
Game Discussion
Steam User 14
Honestly, hard to believe something this good is free.
Want to keep Discord on your wrist as you play? Super easy. Tutorial video? Same. Wanna watch a stream while you chill? Go for it.
Or pull in your whole multi-monitor desktop if you want. There's limits to the practicality of a VR keyboard, of course, but that's a VR thing not an app thing.
Steam User 11
Watch out for Desktop+ being accidentally turned on when you boot up VR! I had it opening in the background without my knowledge every time I booted up VR (hence the 8h on record). I found out it was using 50% of my graphics resources, resulting in lagging making the games unplayable. I uninstalled it and it solved the issue instantly.
Keep Desktop+ in mind if your PC is under performing and check that it isn't being run in the background!
Otherwise, its good for its intended purpose but if its getting turned on in the background it is very problematic.
Steam User 5
Desktop+ is my #1 must-have program for VR. It's surprising more people don’t know about it, because it’s free and packed with features that match or beat paid apps.
Performance metrics overlay (including frame drop detection and controller battery levels), snapping windows to your wrist like a watch, docking windows to your headset as an overlay, gaze fade, controller button bindings, an advanced keyboard with shortcut support, and even 3D conversion (SBS, HSBS, Top-to-Bottom).
Honestly, Desktop+ can replace programs like FpsVR (€3.99) and OVR Toolkit (€9.75!) without costing a dime. In my opinion, it’s better in design, has more settings, and in general offer all the same functionality as other programs.
Steam User 3
Can't believe this is free. Crashes sometimes when trying to load up many many windows, but I'm willing to push it to the limit for $Free.99
Steam User 3
desktop overlay that actually works on windows 11 (unlike the built-in one)
sadly my laptop is too new to support windows 10
also free and open-source
Steam User 1
This is a very versatile app that does everything I needed which is mainly displaying 3D SBS content in 3D on a floating screen. I use this to play games in 3D using ReShade. Fantastic companion app for that purpose.
Steam User 0
Detailed control of overlays inside VR. It takes a while to understand what all the settings do, but once understood this works brilliantly.