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What's a pancake monitor?
by mattl 5y ago
What's a pancake monitor?
- moron4hire 5y agoSlang for playing a 2D mode versus VR mode on PC.
- jhgb 5y agoIt's not 2D mode, though. That's just bog-standard 3D (unless there's some software that can do 2D-in-VR and has only 2D and VR modes -- is there any? Something like Age of Empires VR Edition?)
- fknorangesite 5y ago> It's not 2D mode, though. That's just bog-standard 3D But without the depth perception that VR gives you. That's why it's "flat."
- jhgb 5y agoYes, it's always been that way.
- moron4hire 5y agoWell, not really, because there are 3D displays with shutter glasses and lenticular displays that can show graphics with depth without the use of goggles or glasses. The graphics may be rendered in 3D, but the monitor itself, the thing I spoke of, only shows 2D images.
- fknorangesite 5y agoJust a regular monitor. It's an idiom in the VR community, especially since a lot of games support both VR and non-VR. But always saying "non-VR-mode" or "normal mode" (which mode is 'normal'? VR or not?) is kind of awkward. It started as "flat", people started joking about it being "pancake" and it just stuck.
- billfruit 5y agoIs the usage "pancake lens" for some type of lenses in photography a similar usage or does it imply something different.
- schoen 5y agoSo, a retronym kind of like "snail mail"?
- fknorangesite 5y agoYeah that's a good comparison.
- ethbr0 5y agoOr "dead tree"
- jhgb 5y agoI googled it because I was confused as well, and it led me to https://www.sironacc.com/product/alarm-ratemeter-with-pancake-gm-probe-and-foot-monitor/ https://www.sironacc.com/product/alarm-ratemeter-with-pancak... , which didn't make a lot of sense.
- ModernMech 5y agoPancake X has always meant to me the first version of X that turns out not well done before you do it right the second time. Like how your first pancake is always a little off because the griddle isn't heated right.
- fknorangesite 5y agoHuh I've never heard "pancake" used that way before - though yeah the analogy is common enough. In this context though it's certainly as I described.
- moron4hire 5y agoSure, if you still need to git gud at cooking.