Vessel

Remote desktop, self-hosted, built for actual work.

A remote desktop you host on your own Windows box and use from your iPad, Mac, or Linux machine. The streaming pipeline is inherited from the game-streaming lineage and it is genuinely good. Everything that assumed you were here to play a game got thrown out.

Private Self-hosted GPL-3.0
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Overview

Why fork a game streamer.

Vessel is a fork of Apollo, which forked Sunshine, which forked NVIDIA's GameStream, a thing NVIDIA killed because too many people liked it. That lineage produced a low-latency streaming pipeline that is hard to beat, and it is the part worth keeping.

The part not worth keeping is every assumption underneath it: that the client is a controller, that audio is one-directional, that a stylus is a novelty, and that latency only matters when something is shooting at you. Vessel rebuilds those assumptions around a person trying to get work done on a tablet.

What Changed

The parts that make it a workstation.

iPad as a real workstation
Trackpad cursor, hardware keyboard with Command and Control remapped the way you expect, and Apple Pencil that draws into Photoshop and signs PDFs like a proper tablet. The "Pro" sticker finally earns itself.
Audio that survives a call
Every other setup drops your earbuds to tinny hands-free mono the instant a microphone opens. Vessel keeps full stereo while you talk: the host asks for the mic, your earbuds open a high-quality input without touching the music, and nobody on the call hears a tin can.
Demand-aware bidirectional audio
The capture path negotiates rather than assuming. LE Audio made keeping both directions at full quality possible, and the desktop side was taught to ask for it.
You host it
It runs on your own hardware. No broker service, no per-seat subscription, no third party sitting in the middle of your screen and your keystrokes.
Status

Not publicly available.

Vessel is an internal Locke Werks product and the source is private. It is a GPLv3 fork of Apollo and Sunshine, and it inherits their licensing obligations.

For access, licensing, or a conversation about the setup, write to archon@lockewerks.com.