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boissieu
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September 9, 2015

OVRMirror (different content on main screen) help needed!

Hi
My goal is to develop an experimental setup where a subject is wearing a rift, performing a task and the operator gets some feedback icons showing on the main laptop screen, not visible through the rift.

I tried different things ending nowhere, and OVRMirror seems to be the best solution, attaching it to a third camera, child of LeftEye. But I get a black window! I'm using UNity 4.6.3 pro, Oculus 0.4.4 and DK1 Rift under Windows 8.
Anybody having the same problem could manage it and make it run properly?

I also read about a solution extending desktop and customizing viewport , but I imagine that it would require to hack OVR native scripts, which I don't feel comfortable with!

Any help will be much aprreciated!!!
Thanks
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    cybereality
    Inspiring
    September 9, 2015
    The best thing is to create two separate applications and network them together.
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    vrdaveb
    Inspiring
    September 9, 2015
    The story has changed for Unity 4. Now you can upgrade to Unity 4.6.8 and Integration 0.6.2. Then you can set OVRManager.display.mirrorMode = false add a Camera to the OVRCameraRig GameObject, and configure it to render whatever you want on the main monitor.
    cybereality
    Inspiring
    September 9, 2015
    Awesome news, vrdaveb!
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    boissieuAuthor
    New Participant
    September 10, 2015
    Thanks for your answers!
    @Cybereality: I can't consider the networking solution as the main constrain is to provide a system as light -and cheap - as possible, so relying only on a laptop and a rift.

    @vrdaveb: Great!!!! Going to try this, thanks!
    MikeF
    Inspiring
    September 11, 2015
    Any chance there could be a way of doing this with unity 5.1+ in the future? wouldn't mind trying a couple ideas out :)
    vrdaveb
    Inspiring
    September 11, 2015
    This is likely to happen, but there isn't an ETA for it yet.
    MikeF
    Inspiring
    September 11, 2015
    awesome, thanks Dave!
    Podden
    Up and Coming
    September 11, 2015
    +1 for this one!
    Just saw this post of the Fantastic Contraption guys, imagined some truly awesome teamplay mechanics and started searching for it. Hopefully we could get such a feature.

    @MikeF: In the meantime you could start experimenting with the SteamVR integration. Disable "SteamVR_GameView" Component on the camera rig, drag in another camera and tadaaa :)
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    MikeF
    Inspiring
    September 11, 2015
    Very cool, thanks for the heads up Podden!
    Anonymous
    October 21, 2015
    You might try out this way I just found using OnGUI method to render the main window however you want. The post includes a demo including source project for a 2-player game (1 player desktop the other player VR) on same computer.

    viewtopic.php?f=37&t=27051

    ccs
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