Ambilight mod for the Rift

"SxKx" wrote:

"blito3" wrote:
wouldn't it be better to insert ambient color into the unused portion of the screen so instead steady black....its used as an ambient light source....

Is this idea feasible? Has anyone tried it out or is it even possible somehow to add an average hue of the scene to the area around the warp?

There are multiple threads discussing this at MTBS3D. People have tried this. Some of those posts are over here:
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=13817&p=64825#p64825
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=14777&p=92637#p92637
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=15090&p=75177#p75177
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=15247&p=91077#p91077
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=16254#p96260
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=17117
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=17299&p=121817#p121817
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=17299&p=121832#p121832
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=17299&p=121973#p121973
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=17299&p=121998#p121998
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=17299&p=122094#p122094
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=17299&p=122102#p122102

The later posts toward the end of that list discuss using optical guides to pipe peripheral pixels from the screen to inside the Rift face mask.

There are also some good related posts here too:
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=375
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=375&p=3571#p3571
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=375&p=3688#p3688
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=375&p=4253#p4228
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=897&p=21420#p21422
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=897&p=21420#p21008
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=897&p=21513#p21513
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=897&p=21533#p21534
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=897&p=21533#p21529
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=1791&p=22368#p22368

Beware that apple computer has patented using ambient peripheral lighting in HMDs, so you need to work around their patents of this obvious technology. Their patents cover far more things than just rounded corners and the color black (which makes me wonder why so many apple products are white instead of black).

Thanks for the links I´ll dig deeper when I get my unit. Well aware of the patent issue but if there´s a will there´s a way...