turn off monitor while in VR

[Kate Hanami]

pretend is a laptop or something, or maybe the monitor is just always on for some reason, or you just don't want someone peeping in
it would be a good think to blank out the monitor while in the desktop and still be able to see the desktop on VR Dashboard

[cate]

+1
I've no use for this but turning monitors I somehow turned off when in vr. Also, being able to use the windows 10 lock screen and access pc from vr would be super ideal - and even better if this lock screen functionality still worked in vr, even if your computer was locked and steamvr has "disable vr when pc is locked" enabled.
Also, fixing it so that we can use task manager without the mouse freezing would be great, and also it'd be great if there was a cursor stabiliser, like with how payday 2 vr stabilises the players hands.

[100の人 / esperecyan]

Currently, wearing the HMD forces the monitor to turn on.
This was not the case before.
I would like to see a return to the previous behavior.

[cate]

Damn. What headsets are you using? I've done it before, and am pretty sure I could still have locked screens on win11 yet be playing vr normally.
Wireless cosmos elite, Steamvr main branch, Vive console + Vive Wireless, Windows 11

[100の人 / esperecyan]

I am using VIVE CE on Windows 10. I have screen lock disabled.

[Afroking]

I know this is a very old threat but its more relevant now:

I have a 4K120 HDR Display and a 2K Ultrawide next to it. So Even my RTX4080 has 50% of its memory allocated to utilize the displays.

When In VR, I get noticeable performance improvements when i deactivate the 4k Display. It would be nice to have a feature to deactivate the display while in VR.

There are also usecases where I want to have both, so it should be an option.