Virtual Desktop Offline?

[Max Wind Rider]

I wonder if is possibile one day to use virtual desktop without server connection.
I mean, I paid for the software and now I can't play VR games because the server is down. But the game and the software is local. I think it must works offline.

[Katz]

@ggodin any chances of making VD work offline?

[dexusno]

Same problem here.. server down, and can't use VD.. annoying.

[Igor_Al88]

You can switch to ALVR, it works

[ggodin]

Servers are back up

[Max Wind Rider]

Originally posted by ggodin:

Servers are back up

can you release a offline version so we are not sc----ed up without internet?

[Katz]

Originally posted by Anon_4300:

You can switch to ALVR, it works

Thanks Anon_4300, AVLR really does work and has 3 perks over VD:
- free of charge;
- does not need network connection requirement as VD;
- open source (so you can know what is it exactly doing);

The only caveat is that there are multiple places where you can get it, but the only working ALVR with Oculus Quest as of 26.03.2020 I've got is here https://github.com/JackD83/ALVR
I've just played Half-Life: Alyx for an hour with it, it's awesome and it does not need any internet connection.

[Igor_Al88]

Originally posted by ggodin:

Servers are back up

well, not for me..

[ggodin]

Originally posted by Anon_4300:

Originally posted by ggodin:

Servers are back up

well, not for me..

What’s the message you see in VR, Virtual Desktop Servers unreachable? They are working fine from here and I haven’t had other reports from users since Wednesday so it could be a DNS issue with your ISP

[Negativeman]

Originally posted by sarkonovich:

Never had this issue, but this morning (11:19 am PDT) I'm unable to reach virtual desktop servers.

Same as of like 20 minutes. Looks like the servers are down.

[GreyAlien]

great product but i really think this should be documented on the buy page so people know it is reliant on external servers, i still would have brought it but would have saved me wasted time troubleshooting something that wasnt at my end

[ggodin]

The Quest relies on Oculus servers too and theirs has gone down more often and for much longer preventing users from launching, playing or downloading anything. Server outages happen

[GreyAlien]

thanks ggodin I was not aware of that

[Katz]

Originally posted by ggodin:

The Quest relies on Oculus servers too and theirs has gone down more often and for much longer preventing users from launching, playing or downloading anything. Server outages happen

If both things (Quest & VD) are on the same local network, then they should just see each other.
Otherwise, we could just start creating single-player games so that they will be depending on their other own 3rd party servers. That will become just a mess where users will have to rely on 3 different servers to be up & running in order to play a single player game on their own local network.

Nobody should follow a bad example.