System: Valve Index & HTC Vive
Price at Time Of Review: £2.89
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Tool
Input: Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
VR Shop Score 1/100: 50
Description: Virtual reality is the new human-computer interactive interface. It brings a new magnitude in our ability to create and experience new environments limited only by our imagination. Now we are no more bound by the two-dimensional rectangular screen but fully immersed in a three-dimensional space. Most of us when we go to work every day we sit in front of the computer screen and use a keyboard to do our job. These are the most important devices to interact with the informational world and yet up to this point of time Virtual Reality fails to offer a good enough alternative. There are no existing practical application of virtual screen and keyboard.
WorkinVR standing for “Work in virtual reality” delivers such a solution. It bridges the gap between the old and the new technology by providing a flexible, easy to use virtual displays mirroring your monitors and augmented keyboard which is a live stream of your real keyboard inside the virtual environment. In addition it provides a utility for VR creators to edit their project inside their virtual world while creating.
Review: As always with these virtual workspace programs ‘WorkinVR’ does the job and throws in a few new things to help us all work in VR. In this program, it is the augmented keyboard that really shines, but as per usual it offers little else that every other app (many of which are free) can offer you. This isn’t a bad program by any means, but just be aware that there are many of these out there and some don’t cost a penny. If you need this sort of program give it a go, otherwise there is nothing really new to see here that makes it worth purchasing other the others.
