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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...
Great idea!
Maybe a timed webcam view, something that shows your external environment for 5 seconds once every ten minutes for example.
You could also choose to display notifications for email, calendar reminders, SMS. Needs to be user configurable because it would be annoying / immersion breaking when gaming but totally welcome if using the Rift for work (eg architectural visualisation). Infact, being able to take a call from within the rift may also be very useful.
Maybe a timed webcam view, something that shows your external environment for 5 seconds once every ten minutes for example.
You could also choose to display notifications for email, calendar reminders, SMS. Needs to be user configurable because it would be annoying / immersion breaking when gaming but totally welcome if using the Rift for work (eg architectural visualisation). Infact, being able to take a call from within the rift may also be very useful.