The problem with image quality is that you either need to use the built-in desktop view, or an app that captures and pipes your desktop view to your VR headset. Both of these approaches don't do any upscaling of your monitor's resolution, so if your monitor itself isn't 4k you have to do one of two things:
- use a vr video viewer to view downloaded 4k content
- use Mirage desktop to create a virtual desktop[0], then start oculus/steamvr, and use that to stream the 4k desktop view. this isn't actually made for regular vr, though, so i don't consider it a great solution
As a side note, you can't view DRM-protected content with any current solution (maybe other than with webvr, but I haven't seen Netflix add a VR button yet), so the only way to actually watch content is via piracy - not something trivial to get into for people without the time to maintain a torrent client+VPN+Plex setup.
- use a vr video viewer to view downloaded 4k content
- use Mirage desktop to create a virtual desktop[0], then start oculus/steamvr, and use that to stream the 4k desktop view. this isn't actually made for regular vr, though, so i don't consider it a great solution
As a side note, you can't view DRM-protected content with any current solution (maybe other than with webvr, but I haven't seen Netflix add a VR button yet), so the only way to actually watch content is via piracy - not something trivial to get into for people without the time to maintain a torrent client+VPN+Plex setup.
0: https://www.mirage-app.com/