Oculus did pick the right display device for DK2

"kojack" wrote:
There's a good post on the Pyra forums (Pyra is a handheld linux gaming mini laptop by the creators of the Open Pandora) that goes over the issues that Oculus would also be facing:
http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/16040-beautiful-landscapes-are-prettier-than-portraits/

Thankyou Kojack, good stuff!

"mrcrisp" wrote:

"WG1" wrote:

Thanks, hopefully future firmware and runtime releases will make the phone display work like a plug and play monitor so that we can simply use clone display mode instead of 4 steps.

The DK2 is not designed to work in `clone` monitor mode- its direct-to-rift or extended monitor.

Under extended monitor, the DK2 comes up as a normal monitor in windows, extended and rotated to landscape- I have only had to do this once and every time the Rift is turned on, its all set up ready to go- so it is `plug and play`.

I can't even get direct-to-rift to work and that is also plug and play without any of the rotating, extending or anything else.

Forget clone mode, that is old hat now.

(Thanks for everyone's advice.)

Same here, but do you have to switch Primary Display back and forth between between desktop and DK2 extended?

To get to control panels, I have to make the monitor primary, then to run a demo, I have to go back and switch DK2 to primary, then after the demo, switch primary to the monitor, try to open a control panel, and it's moved to the DK2 side, then try to grab and drag off the DK2 side which wastes time and makes things aggravating.

Please share your method of dealing with switching primary displays, would help me and maybe some other folks.