Two person VR and remote desktop.

[drakulton]

It's about time we had one of those unanswerable drakulton questions.

If you had two people with PCVR setups who have the same single player game, such as a rally sim. If the two PCs were running the same rally sim but one of the PCs steering wheel controls was controlling the other PCs actions via remote desktop. Would one player be able to be the driver and the second player the navigator? Obvs comms would have to be set up so that the nav could give instructions. The nav also wouldn't be able to interact with the car, but just be a passenger if they move their physical position to the navs seat. May also work as plane/heli co-pilots or sightseeing passengers.

 

[melmac]

Don't think this would work. You would be in two different cars in two different game worlds. What you might be seeing on the game in your PC, might not be the same as what's happening on the second PC.

 

[LostCorpse]

i was thinking about this and i cant really see it working. even if the driving was in sync, as soon as the passenger opens a map your game will go out of sync (at least thats how i invision it), plus pcs will render in slightly differant ways or the game engine possibly decied to change the way a "turn" or "slide" might work on one game and not the other.
plus the upstream data requirements might mean it doesnt work so well for fast paste games.

have a look at :
Dakar 18 allows another player to be the co-driver/navigator

reddit

so yes its do-able just need the right game

 

[drakulton]

so yes its do-able just need the right game

Thanks for the thoughts. So if the game engine reacts the same way every time to inputs, and the 'passenger' doesn't interact with the game apart from viewing, and the game isn't too frantic, then it may work. This sounds promising.