Again, it does happen on the headset, but that's only necessary in situations where there's not enough bandwidth to send an uncompressed video stream. See Ocul

Again, it does happen on the headset, but that's only necessary in situations where there's not enough bandwidth to send an uncompressed video stream. See Oculus Link over USB, for example: https://developer.oculus.com/blog/how-does-oculus-link-work-the-architecture-pipeline-and-aadt-explained/ https://developer.oculus.com/blog/how-does-oculus-link-work-... The diagram there shows Timewarp running on both the PC and the headset side. In headsets like the Rift or Valve Index that send video streams over HDMI or DisplayPort that extra step isn't necessary; everything happens on the PC's GPU.