[vtk-developers] Single eye in OpenVR

[Carlos Lopez]

The display mirror from Steam does show one or both eyes on the monitor,
but has the distortion from the VR projection and this makes it difficult
to read text or even, to simply understand what is being visualized.


On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com> wrote:

> I believe the steam display mirror provides that functionality. Does that
> not do what you are looking for?
>
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Carlos Lopez <rcourant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your response.
>>
>> Are there any plans to enable a secondary window that renders the scene
>> without any distortion on the monitor? Many VR apps have this to show other
>> people what is being visualized on the HMD.
>>
>> best,
>> Carlos
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You can turn on a two eye view using the display mirror in the steam
>>> software. The code in VTK for display mirroring was removed since steam
>>> provides it (although without the circles)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Carlos Lopez <rcourant at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> I tried the OpenVR enabled version of Paraview and discovered that it
>>>> shows an on-screen window with only 1 eye, as opposed to the 2 eyes with
>>>> the dark rings that usually appear.
>>>>
>>>> I looked inside the paraview source code to see how it was configured
>>>> but I did not see any configuration parameter to enable this behavior (at
>>>> least not in vtkPVRenderView.cxx)
>>>>
>>>> could you please say how it is done?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Carlos
>>>>
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