Tablet as an Extra Monitor. And why.

Why in the world would you need another monitor if you can just use the tablet normally you ask? Well the reason is if you have something running in the backgound of the computer you are on, but can't view it in action because of the game, or movie that's taking up the foreground, its the cheapest, and more spaceist alternative to buying another display.

For example my surround screens take up everything, so when I need to see the settings of my GPU for Tuning the overclock, or the angle settings for my headtracker, I can't see it at the same time. Until now.

This also saves me the risks and hassle of relying on thrid party overlays or UIs. 

You're tablet still works as a tablet, so you can still go browse and do other things by pressing the home button as per our multitasking nature, you just now are also able to see what's going on the Computer.

The $4.99 App is called iDisplay by SHAPE GMbH which is avalible for both Android and IOS

google play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idisplay.virtualscreen

Itunes
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/idisplay/id363500805?mt=8

The lisence you buy can't transfer over from one platform to another obviously, so choose the right one for your tablet.



The Clients either Mac or Windows for either can be downloaded for free here
http://www.getidisplay.com/

Once you've downloaded and installed it will take a bit for the set up to scan you computer then restart.


The instructions are actually pretty straight forward, it was so simple in fact that I was caught of guard so I'll show pictures to avoid confusion.

From the tablet app press the +

Now from your Computer click your new iDisplay icon then go do you tray bar to find you numbers

This uses your local private network, I'm guessing whoever invented this code just figured its easiser to do it this way than to rely on the usb, and I agree. It's kinda complicated to explain, but basically it put the computer and the graphics cards at less stress.

This fourth display is a tool which I'm starting to see the functions for, maybe later on when I begin fiming Picture in Picture or the like it could be more understood. but for now here are some shots of me using it as a set up medium for the headtracking on Guild Wars 2.

The zoom or Z-axis is a bit tricky, but it work better now that I have a live feed to compare my settings to.