5 VR devices 1 PC?

[JuztBe]

Hello,

VR devices are basically a monitor. So can you hook 5 of them from the same PC and just duplicate some sort of content so everyone could see it? Or software is limiting it somehow?

And how to find educational software more efficiently? Steam has educational tag, but what about android platform and oculus games/soft?

[Armakar]

Calling a VR headset a "monitor" is quite underwhelming..

 

It would really depend on which headset. A vive? I highly doubt it.

 

All depends which VR device and what your running on it. If it's some off-brand basic VR headset with no tracking and your watching 360 videos? Sure, you'll be able to run 5. 

If it's a Vive and all will be playing games? Not a chance

[samcool55]

You can't duplicate 5 VR screens because the head tracking would be wrong.

If 1 person would look to the left, everyone's vision would follow. Not ideal when you (person 2 for example) looked to the right...

 

Baiscally 5 VR headsets = 5 renders = 5 pc's.

[JuztBe]

Just now, Armakar said:

Calling a VR headset a "monitor" is quite underwhelming..

 

It would really depend on which headset. A vive? I highly doubt it.

 

All depends which VR device and what your running on it. If it's some off-brand basic VR headset with no tracking and your watching 360 videos? Sure, you'll be able to run 5. 

If it's a Vive and all will be playing games? Not a chance

Vive, oculus, random branded ones. Watching a movie  is as far as I thought.

[JuztBe]

7 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

You can't duplicate 5 VR screens because the head tracking would be wrong.

If 1 person would look to the left, everyone's vision would follow. Not ideal when you (person 2 for example) looked to the right...

 

Baiscally 5 VR headsets = 5 renders = 5 pc's.

Yeah, good point. Completely forgot about it.

@samcool55 what about - 5 VIRTUAL MACHINES.. 

[Armakar]

I mean, it is possible but it would be highly expensive. The only thing I could think of would be some threadripper or X299 CPU heavily OC'd that would run 5 virtual machines, all somehow given a seperate graphics card.

 

You could get it to work, but it wouldn't exactly be very cost-efficient.

[Cyberspirit]

10 minutes ago, JuztBe said:

Watching a movie  is as far as I thought.

I mean i'd rather go to a cinema than get 5 VR Headsets and 5 powerful PCs.

[JuztBe]

3 minutes ago, Armakar said:

I mean, it is possible but it would be highly expensive. The only thing I could think of would be some threadripper or X299 CPU heavily OC'd that would run 5 virtual machines, all somehow given a seperate graphics card.

 

You could get it to work, but it wouldn't exactly be very cost-efficient.

Yeah.. I actually would need 10. 5 was just an example.
And if we use some random Chinese ones with no head tracking it's just a monitor strapped on head, not VR experience.

 

Just now, Cyberspirit said:

I mean i'd rather go to a cinema than get 5 VR Headsets and 5 powerful PCs.

Someone thought of a project, just thinking about the most reasonable and cost efficient way to do it.

 

[TechMan2175]

try a bunch of pc with like a 1050 ti in them that might work but 5 virtual machines would be too expensive

[Technomancer__]

11 minutes ago, JuztBe said:

Yeah, good point. Completely forgot about it.

@samcool55 what about - 5 VIRTUAL MACHINES.. 

Well if you have a threadripper pc...

[Cyberspirit]

10 minutes ago, JuztBe said:

Someone thought of a project, just thinking about the most reasonable and cost efficient way to do it.

Well in that case maybe some cheap-o headsets and a couple Virtual machines could do the trick as mentioned before.