mrsylvestre Posted Monday at 11:02 AM Posted Monday at 11:02 AM The latest version of Pico Connect has a trick up its sleeve. It is now possible to stream OpenXR apps such as DCS World directly to the Pico headsets without going through SteamVR, a capability that was up to now exclusive to Virtual Desktop. This is clearly an experimental feature. The trick is to run the Pico-provided batch file add_runtime.bat located in one of the sub-folders of the Pico Connect application (see windows explorer screenshot, attached) with administrator privileges. It modifies the registry to install Pico Connect's own OpenXR runtime PicoStreamingXR instead of the default SteamVR OpenXR runtime (see SteamVR settings screenshot). It works well with DCS. Performance is quite close to that of Virtual Desktop at comparable resolution. Colors with Pico Connect are more vivid / saturated. It works through Wi-Fi but also directly through USB 3 connection without need of gnireteht or any other shenanigans. Credits for this find go to a user in the Virtualnull Desktop Discord. It is not clear at this stage if this runtime is an original effort by Pico or if they borrowed code from another project. Curious about how this will evolve. 1 5800X3D - 64GB DDR4 - Samsung 990 PRO SSD @ PCI 4.0 x 16 - 6950XT - Pico 4 (VDXR)
Mr_sukebe Posted Monday at 12:07 PM Posted Monday at 12:07 PM About time. It's only a couple of years late... 7800x3d, 5080, 64GB, PCIE5 SSD - Oculus Pro - Moza (AB9), Virpil (Alpha, CM3, CM1 and CM2), WW (TOP and CP), TM (MFDs, Pendular Rudder), Tek Creations (F18 panel), Total Controls (Apache MFD), Jetseat
mbucchia Posted Monday at 03:26 PM Posted Monday at 03:26 PM (edited) 5 hours ago, mrsylvestre said: It is not clear at this stage if this runtime is an original effort by Pico or if they borrowed code from another project It is 100% confirmed to be a fork of VDXR. It's very sad that they are not giving attribution to the original code (which is technically a copyright infringement per MIT license of the original code). Edit: I should also add, it is based on a version of VDXR from 2023, so I'm not entirely sure they're even maintaining it? Otherwise why not tell people it is here? Why not pick a newer version that has more features and fixes? Edited Monday at 04:24 PM by mbucchia I wasn't banned, but this account is mostly inactive and not monitored.
mrsylvestre Posted Tuesday at 05:49 PM Author Posted Tuesday at 05:49 PM On 4/21/2025 at 5:26 PM, mbucchia said: It is 100% confirmed to be a fork of VDXR. It's very sad that they are not giving attribution to the original code (which is technically a copyright infringement per MIT license of the original code). I was afraid it would be something like that. Sad indeed. 5800X3D - 64GB DDR4 - Samsung 990 PRO SSD @ PCI 4.0 x 16 - 6950XT - Pico 4 (VDXR)
mbucchia Posted Tuesday at 08:39 PM Posted Tuesday at 08:39 PM 2 hours ago, mrsylvestre said: I was afraid it would be something like that. Sad indeed. It's OK, more OpenXR is good, more adoption is good. My code is open source to allow that, but it would be really nice if companies using open source would take the time to follow the directions of the license 5 I wasn't banned, but this account is mostly inactive and not monitored.
VietGirl Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago Hi can you provide if you have to still use Pico connect or Virtual Desktop after running the add_runtime.bat, would like to try this , thanks VietGirl
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