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m17 R4, VR options?
Trying to determine what VR headset would work with this laptop. By looking at the Physx section on the NVIDIA control panel I can see HDMI and a few other ports (USB?) listed for the GPU. Many of the recent VR headset use Displayport which I'm not sure connects to the GPU or not. I recently tried hooking up an HTC Vive Cosmos Elite using the Displayport to Mini-display port but couldn't get it to work right. Here's a picture of the Physx screen and the listed ports.
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jphughan
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April 11th, 2021 07:00
@Alentech It's hard to tell from the resolution of the screenshot as it appears on the forum, even after clicking on it, but the diagram appears to show two DisplayPort outputs, an HDMI output, and a USB-C output all wired to the NVIDIA GPU. The best way to test a given physical output of interest is to connect a regular display to the output in question and check PhysX, in which case that specific display will be listed as being connected to one GPU or the other. If the display shows as connected to the NVIDIA GPU, then the output should be usable for VR. For VR headsets that require DisplayPort, you'd have to use Mini-DisplayPort or USB-C since USB-C uses DisplayPort for video. USB-C to DP dongles are easy to find, assuming of course that the USB-C port is in fact driven by the NVIDIA GPU.
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April 11th, 2021 08:00
Here's a larger one, the USB-C in the back seems to be directed to the Intel UHD internal graphics. Will probably need to test a couple different adapters to see what ends up working.
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June 24th, 2021 12:00
Did you ever find a solution to this? I got a vive cosmos recently and I've been having issues connecting it as well.