Which is Better? Air Link or Virtual Desktop?
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- Air Link VS Virtual Desktop 2022, Air Link Virtual Desktop comparison, Which is better Air Link or Virtual Desktop, What's the difference between Virtual Desktop and Air Link
For as long as I've owned my Oculus (Meta) Quest 2 I've been using Air Link to play PCVR games wirelessly and I think it's great! I've seen a lot of people online though saying their Air Link experience is less than ideal though. Ok, they say Air Link "sucks" and that another application called Virtual Desktop provided a vastly superior experience. I've always thought Air Link is great but at the same time wanted to give Virtual Desktop a try. Having now used both Air Link and Virtual Desktop I currently feel Air Link provides the better game play experience and in this video I detail why that is. Don't get me wrong Virtual Desktop is a great app. It has some really great features I totally prefer over Air Link's implementation and I talk about what those are in this video as well. I hope you enjoy the video.
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Wanna skip to a particular part of the video? Use the Chapters. :)
Chapters
0:00 - "Air Link SUCKS!"
0:27 - Chop, chop, chop! All I do is chop.
1:43 - Am I missing something?
2:49 - I seem to be backwards
3:00 - trust me, I believe you
3:44 - I actually do like Virtual Desktop
5:04 - things could have been different
#quest2, #airlink, #virtualdesktop, #oculus, #meta, #VR, #virtualreality, - Věda a technologie
All the stuttering seems related to the "Guardian" system on Quest 2/Quest. Try disabling the guardian system in (settings, system, developer) and give that a try. Worked for me instantly. Also in my opinion Airlink does look clearer and implements sharpness better than VD, but I tend to use VD as it just seems more reliable, easier to connect, and tweaking the settings is a much better experience. Airlink also tends to interfere with audio input/output settings a lot which is frustrating. VD just works as it should every-time.
Thanks for the tip about the Guardian. I'll have to give it a try. Also, thanks for checking out the video. 🙂
Is there any way to enable another guardian system? Because playing without guardian seems like a surefire way to get hurt to me
have a small rug in the center of play area, so when you step off it you know to be cautios
Another tip is to reduce the sensitivity of the guardian. I think the stutters only show up when you get a warning from the guardian, so reducing those warnings also helps here.
@@MrCamel254 ik this is mad late and prob wont help you now, but i play with guardian off but i have a small circle matt under my feet to know where i am in of playspace
Airlink is better when you have a decent router. if you have a crappy router virtual desktop is better. simple
couldn't have said it any better
how? I have an rt-ax55 and AirLink works better, but why?
@@user-mw4jb7yl3l Airlink was built for AX wifi-6 most likely. Virtual desktop was made with everything in mind
What about how far away the router is? Would I be better off buying virtual desktop where my router is 20+ metres away?
@@iDeker If your having problems with airlink then I suggest you give virtual desktop a go if you can not move the router since it does do better with a lower connection speed. But neither of them are going to make packet drop come back so it depends how good the signal is.
I have tweaked both as much as I can, following all kinds of guides, and aside from changing the saturation and color slightly, of which i am not that interested in, Air link just works better for me, especially as some games still get a bit weird with the controls in virtual desk top for me for some reason. airlink just works, and works great. My pc setup is virtually exactly the same video card, processor and memory.
I would recommend everyone who has problems with their router try connecting directly to your PC via your pc's hotspot. I have my PC connected to my router via WiFi6 and I would connect my quest 2 to my PC through the router. It worked fine but if anyone else was doing anything intensive on the network would get stuttering and hitches which wasn't the best experience. Then realized could just connect directly to my PC via hotspot and it's so much better no more lag, better clarity, less latency almost to the point where it feels as if I'm wired directly to my PC with a link cable. I Would definitely recommend to anyone who has a WiFi6 network card and either can't connect their PC to their router with Ethernet or doesn't have a wifi 6 router give this a try.
I have been trying for weeks to get rid of the lag in airlink and this is the one thing that has actually helped. I can't believe I haven't seen anyone else suggest this.
Big thanks! I just saw your "Say Goodbye to Blurry, Muddy Looking Air Link Graphics FOREVER!!!" and followed your directions and will try AirLink again on my Shadow tomorrow, Virtual Desktop has been messing up driver's in my Shadow since June and soon I pay more for a Fall upgrade 😁
You had mentioned this on my live stream now I can physically see what you mean! I've been using VDT for so long now, that I had completely forgotten about air link. Well looks like it's time to go change that!
Like I said in the video, I think Virtual Desktop is cool too. I like how easy it is to change settings from the Virtual Desktop menu, I like the theater and other environments and I especially like how launching Steam games works. Just click the game thumbnail and Virtual Destop launches Steam VR for you and then the game. It's awesome. It's just the stuttering that puts me off. I really wish I could have fixed it because I like everything else about Virtual Desktop but no matter what settings I used it was always there. My game play with Air Link is super smooth which is the most important element to me.
Heya, quick question. My main use case is to be able to cast/stream my headset (i.e. what i am seeing) onto my PC screen as part of a product demonstration. Can I use Airlink? Or a Cable? or Would both work?
Cable option might be better in-case as the wifi could get tricky. Thank you.
For some reason, when I play on oculus air link, it keeps showing these random patterns every time I try to look around and it also lags a lot. I watched many tutorials on how to fix it but for some reason those didn't help. If any people can help me with this issue, I will be thankful.
I can't even connect to my pc with air link. I can see my pc in the headset, i can press pair.. but then it wont go any further, everything is updated
I'm in the same boat. I have also noticed weird stutters that in lone echo 2 and HL Alyx. I'm running a 5950x and 3090. For months I just lived with it as I could not find anything that would solve those issues, until I switch to Air Link. Now it's butter smooth in both titles and others while seeming pushing higher with seemly more consistent FPS, according to the overlay. For now I have switch over to using Air Link as my go to for Quest 2 PCVR.
disable guardian
@@xalau5270 that is not safety
@@xalau5270 horrible idea.
So I have an old 1080 and I5 4690k and VD is the best for me. 5g wireless on Airlink would lag, warp, eww. VD has yet to freaking so much as stutter. I'm at 80fps, but I am extremely pleased with VD. I'm really impressed with how much of an upgrade VD feels like.
I never noticed the stuttering problem until I played Rumble VR. My hands kept glitching out and when I tried air link, it stopped.
Good video - I upgraded my home router (An Asus gaming router) and find Airlink to be really solid too. (Similar to the gaming router you are using).
For some reason network wise, I run faster and no lag on VD, but when i switch to Airlink it gets super laggy and my connection from my pc wifi drops eventually. I dont know why, but i dont have this issue on VD
Can i still play my quest games with air link? Like will they run better with air link and look better?
Airlink is good ***BUT*** every other update I have problems with Airlink. From it not wanting to connect to PC even after restarting the entire Oculus app and sometimes it just refuses after working 1 or 2 times. So I use Virtual Desktop for the most part because so far I've never had issues with it. I also don't have any stuttering in Virtual Desktop.
Going from 8gig to 16gigs took care of my Air Link blues. Im using a 1660ti for video.
My buddy has a 1050ti, and it worked much better than I expected. Aircar ran nice at an appropriate framerate.
I have a rtx 3070, 16gig ram, ryzen 5800x and I shouldn't be getting stuttering on VD either, but I do. I get a MUCH smoother experience using AirLink so I'm going to stick to using that. I still get some stuttering though, maybe it has to do with my bitrate.
I have a similar setup and VD is not even half as good as the airlink for me, it stutters like mad (with a 3090) and has weird warping issues
Before I switched routers VD was much better than airlink. I was using a Tp- link AX3000 AX50. I took the dive because VD had existing stutters on Tp- links AX3000 AX50 series. Picked up the Asus AX1800 and it made the biggest difference. Fixed about 95% of the stutters I was getting. But the craziest thing was Airlink was actually better than VD afterwards. 99% of stutters was gone on airlink. Now I'm wondering if I needed to upgrade my GPU from a 6700xt to a 3080. Either way everything looks perfect and playing games is now very enjoyable without the stutters and graphics are clean and crisp.
I have the to link ax3000 ax50 :(. So basically I'm going to have to get a different router huh. Damn
I was using Virtual Desktop but for some reason Steam VR had me capped at 72hz even though I changed the settings in VD and the Oculus Quest 2. I got on Air Link and had 90 fps no problem and it was smoother.
I barely got 5ghz internet after 2 years using wired play and airlink has been working fine, things were choppy at first but after just waiting a bit the new internet and my PC played nice lol. Pretty smooth so far no complaints, but I guess I'll try VD just for the sake of something different because those extra feautures do look cool as heck.
I have a different problem. If I play via WD, everything looks beautifully smooth, but when I play Skyrim and ride a horse at high speed, the game gets stuck and resumes after 20 seconds, then nothing for a while and then stuck again for 20 seconds. This only happens to me when I'm riding fast on a horse. With Air Link, this has never happened to me, but with Air Link, I have a problem that gameplay is not that smooth, especially in heavy areas like Riverwood or forests...
My pc has a 1050ti (nvidia recommends 1060 for vr) and only virtual desktop works properly on it, with default settings. Playing on air link has a severe impact on performance with blurry vision and frame drops. When I bought half life alyx I felt like wasted my money until bought VD, finished the game a few days ago
Oi Rafael. Qual o setting que vc usou para o VD? Também tenho uma GTX 1050 ti e um Ryzen 5 2400G mas desisti de tentar configurar o Virtual Desktop porque não tenho ideia do que tou fazendo 😅 Obrigado!
@@-shikajin-4078 Eu só boto os dois aparelhos no mesmo wi-fi e abro o jogo pelo óculos. Nem precisei mexer nas configurações. Só vê se teu roteador suporta rede 5GHz, pra evitar travamentos.
air link uses 2-3gb more vram because of gpu encoder. so users with 8gb vram or less experiencing stutters and stalls. with your gpu link and airlink will be better.
Seems like bitrate on VD is dropping, on ax you should not have max bandwidth at around 500mbs as it shows in your overlay. Also HEVC should give much better visual fidelity. Got nearly same specs as you, 3080TI and 5800X3d with 32GB 3600mhz cl16.
I personally prefer using HEVC encoder on VD which may help your stuttering. I used to get some in VD but ever since a Driver update for my GPU it hasn't happened once and VD > Air link
I have a powerful pc and good running quest 2 and my pc is vr ready but airline just always starts glitching out and I get at least under 20 fps and it’s super laggy you know when you load into a game and then it turns into a 2d screen theirs black outline and you turn around and it’s upside down? That’s like when I’m playing but instead their like little stutters so I hope virtual desktop isn’t like that
I came to this video to understand why you don't use VirtualDesktop. You have a high end system and router but you're still stuttering. I'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE. On the PC streamer app side, do you have 'encrypt local traffic' enabled?
I have upgraded to an 3090 Ti, recently. Before that I was using VD as it has been recommended to me by so many people and on my older 1070 this would hold true.
Now, on the new GPU I discovered that AirLink is pushing higher FPS than VD pretty much consistently, but that comes at a higher overall CPU overhead since you will now also run the oculus runtime and steamVR simultaneously. Anyway, I'm surprised about the results.
Where VD shines however is gameplay of non-VR games in cinematic mode. Input latency and image clarity are superior to whatever steamVR offers with that virtual room while VD also offers a much larger variety of rooms and sceneries.
Both have their place in VR, IMHO. There's also those games that run terrible, no matter what hardware you own (looking at you, VRChat...) And there, VD with its synchronous space warp is a godsend. The asynchronous implementation AirLink is using just can't beat that.
Bottom line: AirLink wins as long as the FPS target is being hit without ASW. In any low FPS situation (be it low spec hardware or hard to drive games) Virtual Desktop is the way to go.
I’ve extensively tested both solutions. Virtual desktop is my go to because if I Max out the resolution on both virtual desktop provides a sharper. virtual desktop has a much better user interface. Airlink can run some games better, but that’s due to the fact you can use oculus, runtime and open composite versus virtual desktop will only run with steam VR.
i always use air link in my quest 2 and i have some problem with it. but now with quest 3 and my wifi 6 pcie card everything is run great.
My main issue with airlink is that I could never get it down below 50 ms latency. In VD I consistently have 30 ms latency or lower and that helps with my motion sickness. Though I'm not sure if this problem is noticeable by everyone considering how small 20 ms can be. I still find that when its higher it makes a nauseating experience worse.
VD does not include frame generation latency in its statistics, whereas airlink does, so you can easily see airlink break hundreds of latency under heavy loads, whereas VD does not anyway.
@@user-yv6yw5ze3y that's literally what the Game latency in Virtual Desktop is. Frame generation time.
@@krazysh01 Sorry, this is my fault, I noticed that the "delay" refresh rate of VD is much lower than that of "Game", "network", "codec", which makes the "delay" statistics always out of sync, leading me to believe that VD does not include frame generation time in the "delay".
@@krazysh01 You can find the same "GPU and cpu render time", "Encode, decode, network" in airlink, VD add them up to get "delay", you can also use the same algorithm in airlink, I just tested them on my computer, they give almost the same results at the same frame rate and bit rate, My VD shows the lowest 33MS, and airlink is also 33ms. I know there is a latency timing for airlink, but its calculation content is different from VD, so the results are also different.
They calculated differently, so it not a direct comparison. You better feel it by you self don’t compare the number
Need to have at least 866 mbps connection for VD and disable automatic bitrate for it to look better. And try hevc because it looks better. Otherwise, airlink with your current connection, you’ll get bad compression from time to time.
It really depends on the games. Saints and Sinners, Contractors and Into the Radius run better on VD for example, Pavlov and Boneworks run better on Airlink. But all games so far look better on VD. Its really strange because for a while i had exactly your experience with Airlink just being superior, but it all went bad with some update and honestly im tired fiddling with the settings.
Contractors capped me at 72hz on VD but I could get 90-120 on Air Link so idk what's up with that. I had all my settings set to 90hz
My experience is EXACTLY like yours. So, I like Air Link much more.
I tried playing ps5 through pc than to quest and it was way too laggy
when air link came out airlink performance was horrible. I did notice the text In red matter however I do not have the stutter. thanks for the video.
dude have you stumbled across a strange issue on Airlink it displays what appears to be an a X type shape which flashes really fast and this happens about every 15 seconds.. Meta support have no idea.. I haven't changed anything so I have no idea .. Any ideas dude ? You experienced anything like this ? Airlink used to be fine for me. I have WIFI 6 run at full speed, PC connected via ethernet etc.. just this annoying crappy X keeps appearing with a truncated what appears to be airlink interface inside of it .. anyway .. if it continues, I'll throw in the trash as it's literally not fit for purpose at this rate.
maybe check to see if computer wifi connection is active in task manager performance window, despite ethernet connection, to find low 576 Mbps cause
Does application dropped frames in airlink over 800 matter? I have that but can’t notice stutter
As far as I can tell, it's a counter that lets you know when the application (i.e the game you're playing) drops frames. This does happen sometimes as you're playing, but most of those dropped frames are during loading screens, so it doesn't negatively affect the experience.
@@Maraksot78 thank u for the input was worried when I saw the high number only in that part :)
With 80Mhz bandwidth you should be seeing 866Mbps or 1200Mbps (AC or AX respectively) for link speed at the top of the performance overlay, the fact that you aren't means you're either too far from your router or there are obstacles giving you a signal quality issues. pretty clearly visible on that overlay that something is wrong with the connection (Airlink has Dynamic Bitrate that drops your bitrate if you have a bad connection, Virtual Desktop's Automatic Bitrate is just a measure at startup measuring max throughput)
My typical playspace is 5 or 6 meters away from my router (because that's the room my PC is in) and through a couple walls, but I've set up in the same room as my router also and while throughput is better when I'm closer the overall experience is the same. Virtual Desktop still stutters every few seconds. I did have someone suggest the stuttering may be a result of my guardian being small, which is the case most of the time because I don't have any large rooms I can regularly play in. They suggested turning the guardian sensitivity down or even turning it off completely to fix the stuttering. I have yet to test this theory though. I plan to eventually but have just been very busy and haven't gotten around to it. I will eventually though. 🙂👍🏼
@@Maraksot78 before turning it off try clearing guardian history, it builds up over time and harms performance in my experience even when always playing in the same space.
And I noticeably get performance issues even in native games when that occurs
it seems to be a AMD/NVIDIA issue. and setups. for me virtual desktop gets rid of my stutters. but i have a ryzen 3600 16gb ram and a 5700 xt and get smooth VD but airlink gets that stutter you were talking about. so if you have a AMD GPU its worth the try. remember to set HEVC instead of H264 for AMD
I dont know whats happening with my VD but it lags sooo hard compared to airlink, now I'm just exclusively using airlink
Air link is great imo
I just got the Quest 3
Coming from the Rift S and I was so confused why everyone kept saying airlink sucked and I should get VD.
Airlink runs great and looks great. I do however have a wifi 6e router and it’s hard wired to my desktop.
I’m just happy I don’t need to spend another $20 😂
I have the issues you're having but the image is so much better that it's worth it.
It's still virtual desktop for me.... Everyone's experience is different especially with VR, but VD takes a lot less work to make look nice and not having to have oculus software running in general is a good day. Virtual desktop over all just feels good and works and has nice control over settings and options, airlink always feels like I'm beta testing a work in progress.
You don't need any of the Oculus softwares/services running on your PC at all with VD?
@Iam AW Correct, virtual desktop eliminates oculus home from having to run at the same time as SteamVR, which is a huge amount of system resources freed up that you can pump into making your VR run better/prettier. Virtual desktop has a lot of really good settings for you to play with to get everything tweaked just right for your system. I run all my VR through my laptop with a rtx3060, and it's consistently a great experience.
@@AstralHobo doesnt the vd still streams the image coming from steamvr? so i think it should be the same as oculus link?
@Emrah Şahin streaming would be the same either way yes, i was just referring to all the software/resources running. If I use airlink, I have to run the occulus home and steamVR simultaneously before im even in a game. With VD I'm only having to run their lightweight streamer app with steamVR. Granted if most your library is occulus then all is good and you don't touch steamVR in the first place.
@@AstralHobo I'd also add steamvr is shit and everyone should use open composite to bypass that
Air link works pretty decently for me. Haven't tried Virtual Desktop yet but I might stick with airlink.
1:46 missed opportunity to make the VD fanboy British. For some reason, everybody that loves VD and hates AirLink is British or Australian.
I am using the 128GB Quest 3 and have tried using both Air Link and, virtual desktop, in most games, Half Life Alyx being one, I have a better gaming experience with Virtual Desktop. Virtual Desktop runs games buttery smooth for me, while Air Link has a tendency to shake, break, and just act weird in general. Again, this is just my experience on my gaming rig. I have a GIGABYTE B550M AORUS PRO, Ryzen 7 AMD 5800X, RTX3090 TI, a Samsung 980 Pro M.2 SSD, and 32GB of RAM.
The only reason I use VD is because sometimes airlink has audio issues.
我认为它可能是编码格式，我不知道为什么你使用H264编码进行虚拟桌面，你应该知道Airlink默认为HEVC编码，除非你使用amdGPU。
Virtual desktop i was have laptop and its was laggy in airlink wheb i get virtual desktop its better
Quest 3 Airlink SteamVR is blurry as hell no matter what video settings I've tried. With a cable I can get it crisp but I want CRISP graphics without a damn cable.... I just hooked up VD, ran SteamVR through it. Night and day difference. CRYSTAL clear image in Fallout 4 VR. There is def something wrong in the Airlink/SteamVR settings. Also the performance "feels" better with VD but I need real numbers to confirm. Questlink and Airlink both have stutter issues if you step away from the play zone and go back. It never recovers. Especially Questlink's home area.
Air Link provides a sharper and clearer image if set up correctly via ODT. Most don't even know it exists
thanks you saved me money
No matter what I do virtual desktop always runs choppy and looks blurry (compression artifacts) on quest 1. But air link immediately runs super smooth and without compression blur.
QUEST 1 ?????
@@VRixxo123 yes those still exist, but I recently switched to quest 3
Yeah. Air Link is miles better than Virtual Desktop. I'm with you 100%. Especially when you use Oculus Mirror for recording and streaming your footage. It's got a powerful image stabilizer plus you can widen your FOV for your footage.
For some reason when I turn around with the stabilizer, the stabilizer just gives up and the mirror starts shaking like it has a sugar rush
Yes it's very weird.
My 3070Ti desktop works better with VD and barely works with Airlink.
But my 3060M Laptop works leagues better with Airlink compared to VD.
Big wall of text here but to summarize great video and air link has developed heavily to be better than VD in some areas!
I mainly sim race and I noticed that the jitter with text you talked about is what I normally notice with VD SSW. Disabling it of course fixes it but if you are running a demanding title and are not prone to motion sickness because of SSW, you lose out on that benefit.
Today I was trying to optimize F1 22: "the best worst VR sim racing game". In short it's not optimized well at all with its outdated OpenVR implementation. I was working to get OpenXR running to remove it's horrible jitter when moving your head in the car and had to "resort" to airlink. Little did I know, air link had improved so much when it came to ASW and ease of use that I might have to consider what I'll use in the future. The experience now is really great with Air Link and I also noticed that text in menus is as sharp as ever with no wobble or jitter from spacewarp interpolation.
As a laptop user, oculus app is a horrible cpu hog and ruins performance. VD worked great right out of the box. All of the issues I had while trying to troubleshoot Oculus Airlink were immediately solved upon using VD once.
Seems to me your wifi signal sucks. It's fluctuating between 500 and 899 Mhz, and even in Airlink you can see HL Alyx is dropping frames - Spacewarp is probably trying to do it's best to fix this. VD can't work if the signal coming in is crap - crap in, crap out. I'm not a VD fanboi, but I think the video is showing the problem clearly - in your case. czcams.com/video/rXTbFZ0vjjY/video.html shows this clearly
My typical playspace is 5 or 6 meters away from my router (because that's the room my PC is in) and through a couple walls and Im pretty sure that's the reason for the wifi signal fluctuation. That being said I've set up in the same room as my router also and while throughput is better when I'm closer the overall experience is the same. Virtual Desktop still stutters every few seconds. I did have someone suggest the stuttering may be a result of my guardian being small, which is the case most of the time because I don't have any large rooms I can regularly play in. They suggested turning the guardian sensitivity down or even turning it off completely to fix the stuttering. I have yet to test this theory though. I plan to eventually but have just been very busy and haven't gotten around to it. I will eventually though. 🙂👍🏼
@@Maraksot78 Curious if that had any impact. Pernicious issues are the worst.
i like air link too
All I know is Virtual Desktop does not stutter on Half Lif Alyx and no matter what I do Air link stutters
i like both Airlink and Virtual Desktop and have no issue runnig either in my Desktop PC my specs are similar to yours
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU, 16 Cores / 32 Threads, 3.4 - 4.9GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB GDDR6X Graphics Card
Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming Motherboard
64GB Corsair Vengeance LPX Black DDR4 3200MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned Memory
also have a RTX 3090Ti which is still sitting in its box 🤣🤣
Virtual Desktop just wins for me on 2 areas , Gamma at least VD has a slider to alter this , omg play slightly darker multiplayer maps like Contractors on Airlink and you can't see make out enemies in doorways , and VD has more options
yes you could argue that one as Airlink has options you can tweak within the ODT
I'm there with you. Virtual Desktop is a really great app. I too like how if lets you change settings while you're in VR that you have to open the Oculus Debug Tool to change when using Air Link (i.e. the performance overlay, sharpening, asynchronous space warp, gamma, etc). Not a big deal but much more cumbersome for sure. If I was able to get rid of the stuttering with Virtual Desktop it would be my go to for sure. Air Link plays nice and smooth and that's the most important thing to me.
@@Maraksot78 if Airlink had similar options to use on the fly like Virtual Desktop everyone would use it all the time , Guy Godin is always updating & improving VD
Airlink though has got better over the past 6 months or so
Funny I don’t see any stuttering in VD and nothing but stuttering with air link. My computer is running a 13000 cpu, 4090, and wifi6e router. Should be no problem for this computer.
You are using CAT 5E cable. For a better experience, you will need a CAT 6.
Virtual desktops menus and navigation is alot better imo, that's the only thing keeping me from using air link
Did your forget to change your encoding on Virtual Desktop Streamer ?? 😭😂
For me airlink wasn’t a good experience because it is laggy and when I try to play no mans sky it keep lagging for me 😊
I have wifi 6e and airlink & virtual desktop work great
You neee to turn off quest link when using virtual desktop
AYO THAT BACKGROUND OUT THE WINDOW IS CHICAGO I KNOW THAT VIEW
Both Virtual Desktop and Air Link open SteamVR to play Half Life Alyx. Once in Half Life Alyx per Air Link using a fixed compression of 30, I went into SteamVR settings and checked the resolution and it was 1708x1724. I then changed the Air Link compression to around 100 and checked the resolution again, it had changed to a lower resolution. So, it seems with Air Link, changing the compression to be less also decreases the resolution. Running Half Life Alyx with Virtual Desktop with compression set to 30 and on the Ultra setting (note this setting alters the resolution of the game being launched) the resolution was 1820x1888. I changed to the compression to around 100 and checked the resolution again and it remained at 1820x1888. Maybe Air link is performing better because the default settings of Air Link run Half Life Alyx at a lower resolution than does Virtual Desktop. For maybe a more accurate comparison, you could try fixing both Air Link and Virtual Desktop to run Half Life Alyx at the same resolution and compression rate, and see how the performance compares. Anyhow, not sure, but I think Air Link is performing better only because of its lower resolution default setting.
Yes air-link is much much batter even you have low bandwidth Wi-Fi then virtual desktop is bad even i have best Wi-Fi and RTX 3070 ti and so many time I have to update the steam vr and won’t even open.
first mention your gear, its not the same play on RTX4000 series than... i dont know, GTX 1660 super (considering meta say for sure is cover as enough for VR. SO talking about horrible experience, for "minimum gear" virtual desktop works better
Air link is shitty I cannot use it unless no one is using the Internet and I have a good Internet you can trust me on that. But every time I use a link there’s always stuttering visual affects or just bad it’s always laggy and in all it just won’t work
I can't use the airlink cause I don't have the USB c port on my 9lder msi gaming laptop.
what are you on about airlink is wireless.. are you confused with the link cable which has nothing to do with airlink?
quest 2 always make me dizzy
Bro that is me but with airlink
Disable 'Encrypt Local Traffic' on the PC's VirtualDesktop Streamer app side or it'll stutter regardless of the settings you try on the Quest 2/3 app side.
I have a 4090 and 7800X3D. I'm a network engineer that specializes in Wi-Fi deployments and I have a fast 6E mesh network as well. That setting causes stutters regardless of anything else you try.
I have better success with Air Link vs. virtual desktop
Air Link is way better for me.
It's not "Throwing shade" It's a bad user experience. portraying those people with the bowl cut and glasses nerd stereotype doesn't help. Calling them virtual desktop "fanboys" doesn't help either. I have a bad time with airlink and also the steam app now. Virtual desktop still runs problem free for me.
Oculus apps though are resource hogs even when not using VR. Poorly optimized apps that I kill with task manager when not doing VR.
we like vr desktop more because you don't need a 10000 dollar pc like air link
Potatoes need VD
Real computers need Airlink
for me air link runs like B U T T E R
also this is what my friend thinks my setup looks like 2:30
Airlink is a buggy shitty mess, if you play anything demanding your AirLink Menu will be a 3FPS slideshow. The Server also uses the GPU when not inside the menu which is a big no no. SteamVR? Forget about it
It looks like his expensive router doesn't play nice with VD judging by this review czcams.com/video/QLiqSfgTlVA/video.html
probably need a better pc tbh
Better than a 5950x and a 3080ti ? From what year are you posting this comment ?
why are you talking like that ?
VR is still in alpha stage
"Throwing shade" ...are you 12 ? 🙄
ive used both and airlink is so much easier and simple and actually loves me unlike my dad who left to get smokes when i was 2. lol