After finding some interesting undocumented features in the iPhone SDK, Ars Technica decided to get a hold of Freeverse and see if the company was willing to apply the MPTVOutWindow class to Moto Chaser.
The MPTVOutWindow class allows the iPhone to push its screen to a TV instead of its display. The iPhone accelerometer continues to work normally, the touch screen, in theory, should still be usable, but for this demo it was disabled.
Freeverse did a little coding magic and got Moto Chaser to display on a TV using a AV cable connected to the iPhone. The game plays at 20 FPS on a 2G iPod touch. That rate means the game is "nearly playable" according to Freeverse Producer Bruce Morrison.
You can check out the video below, and check out the full Ars Technica article here.
Jamie
December 05, 2008 at 11:57pm
the portents for the implementation of this are absolutely amazing. Try doing THAT with a Black Berry! I imagine that's how Macs will work someday-everything would get beamed to a display with an input device of some kind. Desktops will be no more. Awesome.
