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).
Could that be used to allow the Screen to show up in Windows Control Panels for changing of output format? (ie Color, brightness, possibly other items?)
I dont see options to change Hz, but there are other options for lower color depth, etc etc.
But I'd Like to Run Windows Color Calibration on the display to balance the contrast and brightness levels.
No, because none of the games or apps can run in that mode. But you could use it if you are writing custom software and can't/won't code it the correct way.
I wont do much to it, just brightness adjustments, on remote desktop right now so cant try til later tonight.
Dont have anything better to do, since the tracking camera wont update...
I'd be bored enough to try running a game in non-rift mode, just plain ole stereoscopic mode and use trackIR tracking and tape my hat clip to the top of the HMD.. lol.
Rule #1 Dont Change the Resolution (i accidently changed to 640x480 by accident), gets the unit stuck in a reboot loop, and you have to wipe drivers and control sets to fix.
Edit: as you said color/contrast changes from non direct mode didn't translate to directmode.
For my application I want the user to see the image of two cameras (one for each eye) with my previous 3d glasses st1080 from siliconmicrodisplay that was easy it detected as a monitor and took data in side by side mode, i.e. I just needed to display the two camera images side by side on the desktop using a simple app and it worked.
Apparently with the rift it wont be so easy so how do I proceed if I want to write a proper rift application that would do the same job?
Also I want to run it of a raspberry pi or similar how to use a Linux based SOC with a HDMI output to serve image data to the rift?
Ok, that's different to what it sounded like you wanted at the beginning. 🙂 It would be fairly simple to make a program that put the two camera feeds onto two textures and passed them to the rift sdk.
Using it on linux however is harder. I haven't tested, but would the rift even turn on without windows? The cv1 has the head sensor, does the sdk handle turning the screen on/off or is that purely local to the rift itself?
The easiest way to do this kind of thing would be to get an OSVR. The HDK2 is cheaper than the CV1, same res, open source and supports linux. Not as good of course and I've heard the sdk isn't great, but it sounds like it's better suited to projects like this.
