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Global HUD Overlay (released in Oculus Showcase forum)
Hi all. I have been thinking. When you play a game on the Oculus Rift, you enter another world. (That is kind of the whole point!) But this means you are likely to miss important things going on...
Until the rift has dual cameras on the front, how can a UI overlay tell you if someone is at the door? Right now the best solution is just to take off the rift.
Having said that, it would be nice to have a home screen that you could pull up inside a game. It could have the time, email notifications, hell, even communicate with your cell phone via your computer's Bluetooth interface to display incoming calls or text messages. It would have to be something like the fraps overlay, and not a separate window that would cause a window switch, and kick you out of your fullscreen game and burn your eyes with your desktop.
Having said that, it would be nice to have a home screen that you could pull up inside a game. It could have the time, email notifications, hell, even communicate with your cell phone via your computer's Bluetooth interface to display incoming calls or text messages. It would have to be something like the fraps overlay, and not a separate window that would cause a window switch, and kick you out of your fullscreen game and burn your eyes with your desktop.