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spyro
Expert Protege
11 years ago

Please stop supporting "Extended Mode"!

Hi, IHMO the last weeks showed very clearly that the ongoing support for rendering to the Rift by extending your desktop (and rotating it 90°) was a mistake. Made in good intentions, sure, but none...
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mindabuse
Explorer
11 years ago
"spyro" wrote:
IHMO the last weeks showed very clearly that the ongoing support for rendering to the Rift by extending your desktop (and rotating it 90°) was a mistake. Made in good intentions, sure, but nonetheless a mistake. It just killed the standard. And it's not even marked as deprecated at all.


OS X does not have direct display support whatsoever. Apps can only support extended mode. Linux doesn't even have a current 0.4 SDK release...

Per the current release notes:


Version 0.4.1 Beta 8/11/2014 New Features
Added Mac OS support. Mac does not currently include a display driver, so it always works in Extend Desktop mode.