Desktop Portal Reviews

used this since june of 2020. i haven't used much of the pining windows in the world feature but it's been nice when i have. I use it mostly for the watch which shows both controllers battery life, time, date, current FPS, and music controls. highly reccomended if you wanted this also is more reliable for me than OVR toolkit.

The absolute best desktop-viewing software on steam, hands down. I’ve tried OVRtoolkit, and it isn’t nearly as good as this due to how simple and easy it is to setup, plus the fact that the UI is super clean. (looks like oculus menus lol) This, along with song playback controls at the wrist on the “virtual watch”, as I call it, make it a must have for me. (Also I’ve noticed little to no performance hit👍)

This softeware is only really good if you stream/ record and have to have chat or obs on your hand, idk thats all of the things i really use it for but its good none the less seeing that just by looking at your wrist you can see you battery, framerate, if you have some sort of music app running you can control it just from your wrist so no more having to open ur steam menu and click anything and you stay in game so you can keep moving, turning etc.

I had an issue with the menu not responding the first time I tried the app, but all is good after a system reboot. So far everything looks cool... a little too cool if you ask me. Hmmm.

The system seems good at first, probably because I was excited to use it, but it is super clunky. Getting the page you want is awkward as well as managing its placement. I will select my popped out twitch chat window and if any other screen covers over it the portal will recognize this and cover over the chat so I will have to make sure the chat window is on top of all the layers on my screen. even though you select the portal to show your chat page. The cropping feature works about 10% of the time. I can crop top to 100% and nothing will change. If you have placed a window and pinned it down "so it doesn't move" and you want to reselect it to make some changes it will unpin itself and go right back to the starting position of selecting it in the first place. It remembers nothing so you must reset everything back up every time you want to use it. There is no way of deleting a selected window once you have created a "portal" to it unless you restart the program. Very poorly made product but I like the idea of it. TLDR: Clunky, Modifying Window settings Rarely work, Can't delete added pages unless you restart program, Doesn't remember anything even if you just set it up.

Still has a couple of bugs when displaying windows with weird border properties, but is far and above other virtual desktop programs out there. If you are a person who has used any sort of Oculus hardware and have switched to a steamVR based system, this is the software for you. The interface very closely resembles Oculus's touch bar and window system.

Great software for having your desktop in vr. Easy to use and no noticeable performance impact.

Good application had very little issues setting it up and I can have tabs open when playing my vr games and see my twitch chat.

Works fine with HP Reverb G2 & WMR controllers. Desktop Portable is very stable and I had no issues navigating my desktop, pulling up various media types and watching online videos. With that said, the way the app is design mirrors what you are watching on to your desktop & as far as I can tell there is no way to disable mirroring. The issue with this is that it utilizes more system resources than necessary when watching videos so playback from a website like Youtube is a bit sluggish from my experience. I have an Alienware Aurora R9 that can pretty much handle all VR titles with few exceptions. I have no video playback issues with other VR players so it's most likely the mirror that needs to be disabled but I don't see any such options within Desktop Portal. It's a pretty stable and solid application otherwise that simply needs a few more tweaks to make it just right.

I initially had issues with this not working with windows on my portrait monitor. But to the devs credit, they got in touch pretty quick and pushed out a fixed version that solved this issue. No hacky workarounds required or excuses made, it just got fixed. Imo the UX in this is better than XSOverlay and now that it's working with all my windows perfectly i'll be setting this up as my go-to overlay app.