GoKawiilNerdLens
Put your computer screen in a headset you already own.
A wired, open-source VR desktop experiment for iPhone and Google Cardboard.
NerdLens captures your desktop, compresses it into JPEG frames, sends those frames over USB, and renders them on a virtual screen inside a stereoscopic Cardboard view. No expensive headset. No cloud streaming. Just a phone, a cardboard viewer, and an arguably unreasonable amount of curiosity.
Important NerdLens is an early proof of concept, not a polished consumer app. The current mobile project targets iOS, requires a source build, and is best suited to hacking and experimentation.
What it can do
Stream a selected display or window into VR at a configurable target of 10–60 FPS
Keep traffic on a wired USB tunnel through iproxy
Show a live preview, connection state, frame count, resolution, and target FPS
Move the virtual display closer or farther away without leaving the headset
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