Oculus Rift + second screen

Hi,
My first post…hope I did it right… In the past I created a few little Google VR games for me and my son of 5 years old using Unity. He just loves VR…just like me:)

Today someone asked me to create a maze game for the Oculus. That wouldn’t be a big problem, I would have to change the maze I created for Google VR to the Oculus SDK I guess, I’ll figure it out. The guy will send me his Oculus so I can run tests.
But my client specifically asked if it is possible to attach another screen (Monitor/TV). Imagine: a player walks through the maze using the Rift. His friends are watchting a 2D floorplan of the maze on a monitor where they can see their friend walking through the maze, like he is a kind of radar-ping. They can give him hints by telling him to turn left or right. See uploaded picture.

Is it possible to attach another screen to the Rift where a different view (in this case a 2D topview) with different use of gameobjects (texture player or maincamera as radar-ping) is displayed (read-only, no input to the game itself)?

If anyone has a good example, some hints where to go or even some finished code: I would be very glad. Please notice: I’m new to the use of Oculus, so enlighten me!

Hello…again…

I found this in the Unity manual:
“Multi-display allows you to display up to 8 different camera views of your application on up to 8 different monitors at the same time…Multi-display only runs in standalone mode, and is supported on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.”

Since the Oculus will be connected to a Windows-PC, I believe it’s save to assume the above is going to work. Or am I missing something? Please, anyone?

Yes this works, just create a second camera and set the target eye to None and the target Display to Display 2.
Also make sure you activate the second display with a script as stated on the manual:

@cyberluigi2k

Thanks for the reply! Due to delayed delivery I couldn’t test it right-a-way. But I managed to get it working, following the steps you supplied: actuallly it was pretty easy this way and all my worries are gone!