Creative types will love this Virtual Reality app.

The history of computing can be traced through its display milestones: from the low-res Apple IIs, the 14” VGA monitors of the 90s, the 20” monitors of the late 90s to the full HD, 1080p, LED monitors available today. The future of monitors could take an altogether different route.

Guy Godin, has developed an $15 app for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift which brings the Microsoft Windows experience to the Virtual reality world. Imagine your Windows desktop projected on a huge movie theatre screen while being seated in the luxury of your own house. This is essentially what Virtual Desktop offers.

The app has a definite “wow” factor attached to it. Once installed it can not only setup your desktop as if it were 6 feet away from you while you are ogling at a 60” display, or it could also set it up as if it was a towering IMAX screen. Setting it up so that it covers the full field of your vision would make more sense, and the app can also do that.

SteamVR’s “desktop theater mode” can also do this on HTC Vive, but some have reported that reading text in this mode is not very comfortable since its mostly designed keeping for viewing movies and non-VR games.

On the other hand, if you use Virtual Desktop to do the same things, such as reading long articles or browsing the web, it’s less cumbersome and a lot more comfortable, especially if you are using it for hours on end.

Virtual Desktop is particularly impressive, if you plan on watching videos, since it allows you to make the experience very cinematic. Don’t expect the experience of a 1080p video quality, since the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vide offer resolutions of only of 1280 x 1080 pixels per eye. Despite this, videos look very crisp and sharp in full screen mode. Virtual Desktop also provides 360-degree viewing of videos and pictures, which can be a very immersive experience.

For those who use a dual monitor setup, especially audio/video engineers, who have to juggle multiple tracks for editing purposes, Virtual Desktop makes workflow surprisingly easy.

The app gives you a sense of how virtual reality can evolve, it gives you signs of things to come, just like the impressions the first batch of VR hardware when they were released gave.

A possible downside for this app would be its reliance on a keyboard and mouse for the purposes of naviguation in Windows, if you don’t touch type very well.

Hopefully it won’t be long before all you have to do to get an immersive desktop experience is to slip on a pair of VR glasses and your smartphone will provide the rest.