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ElectricMucus
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10 years ago

Question: How much in the rendering is wasted & SDK OpenGL support

When I last looked into how the SDK rendering works it was something like this, IIRC: The application two normal views of the scene, according to viewport parameters supplied by the SDK. The resul...
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ElectricMucus
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10 years ago
To be clear the performance issue was not the distortion process itself but the requirement of rendering about ~3 times many pixel that would be necessary for a 2D 1080p screen.

What are the specific advantages of using Vulkan for VR?
Is there a high level wrapper library ala SFML for it out there?
I see that the new version of GLFW supports it, it's not as batteries included as I would hope but unless there are any other alternatives for me (I'm into procedurally generated content) I'll try it out.