Riftop prototype 3d desktop for windows and oculus rift.

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Riftop prototype 3d desktop for windows and oculus rift.

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The riftop is a prototype 3D desktop for windows* born out of frustration with the workflow when tweaking things for the Oculus Rift. The current devkit does not provide the resolution for this to really be a solution to my workflow problems but I wanted to get it ready for when the release version arrives. Hooking into the windowing system for windows vista and above you get a high frame rate display of what you have running in windows. Lots of playing around with the messaging system now allows basic interaction with many apps. I have not yet got it working with ribbon bars they seem to require something special.

Support for window placement and multi window display
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The current [~ + tab] display that shows all available windows.
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This currently is just a functional prototype but since it's using Ogre it will be relatively easy to make 3D desktop enviroments. Sitting on a beach in VR reading your email. Uploading pictures of cats from the bridge of a battleship. The resolution and the lack of a standard way to share the rift between apps are the current holdups for this. It isn't much to look at right now but I've covered much of the messy backend stuff so adding the shinny 3D rendering bits to it is something that the Ogre community already knows how to do well.

Due to techniques this is using it will only run on windows vista and above with directx 11. It could run on directx 10 if we had a render system but I'm not interested in doing that. The way this works is bound to the windows API so this cannot be ported sanely to OSX or linux the conecpt could probably be recreated though.

Source code for the main part is here
Source code for the modified ogre
Binaries should just be unzip and run
I have not submitted the Ogre changes as a patch yet as I'm not entirely sure they are stable yet and making sure has been low priority.
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Re: Riftop prototype 3d desktop for windows and oculus rift.

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