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How to use the Oculus CV1 as a normal monitor?

TraxXavier
Honored Guest
I would like to use the Oculus CV1 as a normal monitor, that is no head tracking just put the desktop onto the two build in displays. As simple as that.
When I bought it i assumed that would be trivial, but apparently it is not, the rift is not detected as a normal screen (unlike all my previous 3d glasses i used).

So how can I achieve my goal with the oculus?

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JohnnyDioxin
Expert Trustee
Virtual Desktop will do it - and I assume Big Screen, too. The view still moves left and right - just like it does when you turn your head in front of your monitor - but you see your desktop there and can do evertything with it that you would on your monitor.

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Roaster
Rising Star
With no head tracking it's easy to get motion sickness, such as with those who can't read a book in a moving car.
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TwoHedWlf
Expert Trustee

Roaster said:

With no head tracking it's easy to get motion sickness, such as with those who can't read a book in a moving car.


Haha ir read the oculus forum on a phone in a moving car like me right now.   Don't get sick in the rift usually.  But definitely get a bit reading on my phone in a car...

cero490
Heroic Explorer
Virtual Desktop for $15, BigScreen and Envelop, both free, all do this. Each is great and offers something the other does not, imo.

TraxXavier
Honored Guest
No, no, I don't want the desktop to be virtually fixed, I really want the rift to ack as a dumb display just always showing the same view no head/motion/whats o ever tracking at all. Can I somehow make it detect as a plain old screen in windows or linux and that?

Anonymous
Not applicable
Short answer no - long answer - use software to VR your desktop. It's not a dumb display/motor.

BigDuke6ixx
Honored Guest
Why would you not want a VR desktop? Anyway, fire up one of the VR desktops, zoom to the max and put a sock over your, cough, sensor. 

kojack
MVP
MVP
The ability to use the rift as a monitor (extended mode) was removed quite a while ago.

What are you intending to view on the rift in extended? If you aren't running software designed for the CV1 the result will appear as near garbage. If you try to view the desktop using a CV1 directly:
- the corners aren't visible (the rift shows a circular region of each panel)
- the screen won't be linear (each lens pinches the image in the centre)
- the left and right halves of the desktop will be overlapped

Unless you are writing your own software to to do the distortion compensation effects of the oculus sdk, viewing a desktop directly through the rift as a monitor (if that was still allowed) is unusable.

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Grobm
Explorer
I totally understand were @TraxXavier is coming and why they are asking if it is possible. Some of us like to have mutliple views from one PC for multiple reasons... instructor views, installatiins that may want to show numerous data points of the simulation/experiencr the user os running.

To do that middlewares, like Unity and Unreal manage that via their display managers API. If they rift becomes a ? On video input it makes getting these APIs very hard to function properly.

Due to how Oculus implemented direct SLI intergration it kind screws that methodology up.

So no, Oculus does not want you to use it as another display. Build all your apps like console games.