Samsung Prototype Lets You Use Your Desktop in VR

Sure, a pair of augmented reality glasses can transport y'all to a Martian desert, but Samsung is experimenting with tech that tin besides ship you to something far more familiar and likely more useful: your desktop PC.

MWC Bug Art Samsung'south Monitorless prototype, which the company plans to show off next week at Mobile World Congress, evokes services like GoToMyPC or LogMeIn. Information technology lets you remotely admission your complete home or office desktop but instead of connecting via another desktop, laptop, or iPad, you'll utilize AR spectacles and a smartphone to interact with the display, keyboard, and mouse.

Unlike the Microsoft HoloLens or pretty much whatever other AR glasses we've seen, the Monitorless glasses take electrochromic lenses, which let you adapt their opacity. That ways y'all can view your desktop in consummate virtual reality, equally an opaque layer on peak of the real world, or pretty much any combination in betwixt.

Monitorless uses a combination of Wi-Fi and 4G LTE to transport data from your PC to a smartphone, and Wi-Fi Direct for the link between the phone and the glasses. And don't think information technology's all about productivity: Samsung says information technology will as well enable users to play PC games. Check information technology out in the video demo below.

In improver to Monitorless, Samsung has a few more VR and AR projects to bear witness off at MWC. They include an app for the Samsung Gear VR that boosts the quality of text to go far easier for visually dumb people to read, and apps that harness 360-degree video and audio to let you visualize a habitation renovation project or your adjacent vacation destination in VR.