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Mirroring the game output.
Anyone come up yet with a creative solution as how to output a regular rectilinear game render to the monitor while mirroring the same (distortion corrected) output to the Rift? For now everyone seems...
KuraIthys has basically covered it. But I'll add a note: a higher-resolution backbuffer will probably be desirable for quality anyway (if the framerate can be sustained) -- a low-res distorted resampling of a low-res source is part of why we see such bad pixelation and unreadable text. A higher res source, and sharper sampling than bilinear helps.
Anyway, my point is that we might have a higher resolution backbuffer to present, and not need to render a third view for a monitor.
However there are some advantages to a third render: using a lower FOV suitable for monitors, and possibly different perspective -- depending on whether you're imagining the use being demoing Rift to outside observers or making a game pleasant to watch for an audience (a 3rd person perspective might be useful for this -- Alone In the Dark style or even chase-cam).
Anyway, my point is that we might have a higher resolution backbuffer to present, and not need to render a third view for a monitor.
However there are some advantages to a third render: using a lower FOV suitable for monitors, and possibly different perspective -- depending on whether you're imagining the use being demoing Rift to outside observers or making a game pleasant to watch for an audience (a 3rd person perspective might be useful for this -- Alone In the Dark style or even chase-cam).