If it is really real-time this will be interesting. In combination with SideCar you could have a nice mobile dual-screen setup.
http://www.cultofmac.com/247700/sidecar-hangs-your-ipad-from...
Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac
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#12It is called AirDisplay and available since years: https://avatron.com/applications/air-display/ I think there was/is also another App available doing it.
There are plenty of apps which have done this before - but only over Wifi. This is wired, so you don't get the same issues with lag.
Re: Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac
#13It is called AirDisplay and available since years: https://avatron.com/applications/air-display/ I think there was/is also another App available doing it.
...and then yosemite came out, the the fps dropped from 25 to 2, and everyone stopped using it.
The same goes for DisplayPad.
The key here is that this is not a wifi streamcast.
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#14I've occasionally used AirDisplay when doing minor HTML/CSS stuff (browser on iPad, emacs with impatient-mode on Mac) and it's useful, nice, but when doing heavier lifting lag kills it. I'll definitely be getting it tomorrow, and look forward seeing if I get to use it more or "as often as I did."
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#15Wonder how much bandwidth is required to drive this... My USB3.0 port is taken by an SSD hosting virtual machines, the other is hooked to a powered hub.
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#16This looks cool - I'd definitely use it for emails. Has it not been done already though? I have a question about the image - whats the stand used for the iPad?
https://www.twelvesouth.com/product/compass2 12 south are pretty nice, but my wife had a bad experience with their SurfacePad iPhone case (really awesome case, but the leather wears heavily after 1-2 months)
Isn't the point of leather that it wears?
Re: Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac
#17> the first app that allows you to use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac
I stumbled upon iDisplay.com the other day. Can't recommend anything though, I'm not an apple user, I was looking for ways to replicate my android phone display in my desktop Linux.
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#18I wonder how they achieve "Zero lag". I've been using similar software ( AirDisplay [1] ) and the lagging is awful. You have to be certified hardware manufacturer if you want to use the USB connection to transmit any data between the iPad and your Mac [2]. So my bet is they either use WiFi ( which can roughly get 60fps on retina resolution ) or Bluetooth 4. In both cases I think the refresh rate would not satisfy in…
My guess would be they're just using the shared documents area .
There's a number of libraries on the desktop that let you access an API to write to the shared documents area. I'd guess they'd just be piping a mp4 feed to this and the iOS would just be reading from there.
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#19The iAccessories pictured looks really beautiful. Anyone know what brand it is?
Re: Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac
#20I wonder how they achieve "Zero lag". I've been using similar software ( AirDisplay [1] ) and the lagging is awful. You have to be certified hardware manufacturer if you want to use the USB connection to transmit any data between the iPad and your Mac [2]. So my bet is they either use WiFi ( which can roughly get 60fps on retina resolution ) or Bluetooth 4. In both cases I think the refresh rate would not satisfy in…
My guess would be they're just using the shared documents area . There's a number of libraries on the desktop that let you access an API to write to the shared documents area. I'd guess they'd just be piping a mp4 feed to this and the iOS would just be reading from there.
Is there any chance this approach could eventually be used on a Linux distro or Windows?