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View your computer desktop in VR
View your computer's desktop in VR, using your mobile phone (and a viewer like Google cardboard).
Use
You will need to start a server on your desktop, and VR VNC Viewer on your mobile. Both computer and mobile must be on the same network (e.g. connected to the same WiFi station), and be on the same class C subnet. e.g. if your computer is 192.168.1.20, your mobile must also have an ip address that starts with 192.168.1.
vrvncviewer will scan this part of the network for vnc servers (on port 5900), and mjpeg servers (mjpeg on port 8080).
VNC server
You will need to install a VNC server, and set the password option to no authentication, or if that is not possible set the password to 'aaaaaaaa'. There are many vnc servers, a small selection are listed here:
Windows
Linux
- xvncserver
- vncserver
- ...
MacOSX
MacOSX has a VNC server built in. To enable it, follow these instructions:
Setup VNC for MacOSX.
MJPEG servers
VLC and some other media players can serve videos over mjpeg.
You can also use this simple MJPEG server to view your desktop. I recommend this - it is usually faster than VNC, although the picture quality is a bit worse.
Android app
Download and install vrvncviewer from the play store. After you have started your VNC server, start the vrvncviewer app. vrvncviewer will scan the local network for your computer, and display it in VR. Tap your screen (or click with your controller) to move the VR screen to be in front of you.
Finding your computer should take a few seconds. If vrvncviwer loses the connection, it will start scanning the network again until it finds a server.
vrvncviewer currently runs at around 3 frames per second, regardless of settings. With a fast phone and fast network, it might be a bit higher.
Know issues/work to do
- Improve frame rate
- Add cursor to head tracking
- Add more status messages
- Needs error messages for e.g. wrong password
Documentation
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Overview ¶
An app that draws a green triangle on a red background.
Note: This demo is an early preview of Go 1.5. In order to build this program as an Android APK using the gomobile tool.
See http://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile/cmd/gomobile to install gomobile.
Get the basic example and use gomobile to build or install it on your device.
$ go get -d golang.org/x/mobile/example/basic $ gomobile build golang.org/x/mobile/example/basic # will build an APK # plug your Android device to your computer or start an Android emulator. # if you have adb installed on your machine, use gomobile install to # build and deploy the APK to an Android target. $ gomobile install golang.org/x/mobile/example/basic
Switch to your device or emulator to start the Basic application from the launcher. You can also run the application on your desktop by running the command below. (Note: It currently doesn't work on Windows.)
$ go install golang.org/x/mobile/example/basic && basic
Source Files