Cable Management A work in Progress

Tethered VR Has So Many Cables and It's Not Just About Hiding Them!

With any tethered virtual reality headsets, be it PC VR or PSVR there is a lot of wires involved! So many in fact that it can be a overwhelming prospect to think of how they could ever be organised, so in most cases they are simply hidden behind some convenient bit of furniture or tucked into a box and that is before considering any headset cable management .

At this stage of the setup

I’ve made no considerations to the headsets longer cable management just yet,

apart from my main driver HMD’s (a Valve Index) shorter connection cable that is attached to the PC (one USB 3 port and one display port), with a separate power cable/brick.

I’ve been most concerned with the desk, the PC and the plethora of other devices that are attached to the PC and the desk, such as monitors, keyboards, mice, USB hubs, HDMI spliters/switches ect and their power supplies, combined with a fancy motorised standing desk where cable and device movement has to be thought of there is far more to managing the cables here in The VR Sauce than just hiding them that has to be considered in addition to my concerns as a VR gamer and content creator.

So here I'm showing you a bit of a work in progress of what I'm doing to not only try to make my space look cool but to be practical to my needs for what I’m going to be doing at any given time, so that I can go from sitting here writing this as I’m now doing to behind the wheel of a GT3 car or Streaming my adventures while sat behind my HOTAS in a virtual cockpit of an X-Wing fighter once Star Wars: Squadrons releases, back to strolling along on the treadmill as I get on with my day to day workload.