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Re:Travelling with 24” Monitors by polote on Sunday March 01, 2020 @05:16PM (#22459747)
Author here, definitely interested as it would make traveling much easier for me.

With a setup like that is there any fatigue after a few hours of usage ?

Re:Travelling with 24” Monitors by theptip on Sunday March 01, 2020 @05:49PM (#22459951)
I've found that the Oculus Quest is not perfectly comfortable for multiple hours of uninterrupted use while gaming, but I've not tried it for sitting at a desk coding. YMMV, I would wager that moving around while playing requires it to be tighter, and therefore makes it less comfortable.

The Quest might be the best one to test for travel though; it's relatively cheap, has fairly good resolution, and though it normally works as a standalone system, you can also tether it over USB3 to your main machine's graphics card:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15135/oculus-link-software-av...

Re:Travelling with 24” Monitors by georgewsinger on Monday March 02, 2020 @05:48PM (#22469920)
@polote

The first time I used Simula, I did experience fatigue. After that, it seemed to go away. I tend to use it for a few hours at a time, so cannot comment beyond that, but it seems to work pretty well.

If you're interested in giving Simula a try, contact me at george.w.singer [at] gmail [dot] com. Right now, it's only compatible with the HTC Vive, HTC Vive Pro, or Valve Index. It should otherwise be buildable/runnable on all Linux distros.

Re:Travelling with 24” Monitors by Zenbit_UX on Monday March 02, 2020 @12:43AM (#22461952)
Surprised you never mentioned this as part of your solution but I have a friend with a similar problem and he solved it by traveling with a single ultra wide monitor instead of 3.
Re:Travelling with 24” Monitors by Polylactic_acid on Monday March 02, 2020 @01:38AM (#22462195)
>With a setup like that is there any fatigue after a few hours of usage ?

In games, no. With desktop usage, yes.