Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure if I should feel more safe about this than the usual Kickstarter scam or not. Those have at least some product images.
EDIT: nvm
Think you meant *wary, though yeah sometimes weary fits.
Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
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Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#22Has anybody hacked regular consumer VR headsets for working with regular apps?
For oculus quest 2 there is already a focus on office work. From the start we've had Virtual Desktop and from v28 software update Oculus itself has had several office focused moves.
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#23It's a page about a VR headset, but neither this page nor the 'shop' page that lets you waitlist it has any pictures of the thing even by itself, let alone someone wearing it. What an absolutely bizarre choice.
The video at the top eventually shows somebody in the bottom right corner wearing it.
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#24So is this the future? Hundreds of office workers wearing for 8 hours a VR Headset in an open plan office?
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#25I'm not sure the fullscreen video in the page background helps to promote working with a VR headset. It's lagging, tearing and blurry. If I get dizzy by just looking at the page, how on earth would I last more than 5 minutes in a VR office without throwing up?
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#26The killer "corporate" app for VR in my opinion would be some kind of teleconference app. I absolutely HATE trying to have interactive brainstorming/collaborative design meeting remotely. There are various pancake tools, but none really compare to the experience of 2 people standing in front of a white board, and making wild motions with their arms that seemingly both people understand while drawing on a board.
Some of the experiences I've had in VR are unrivaled by any pancake game i've ever played for that very reason.
I'm not 100% sure I want to be in VR all day all the time. But VR should have a place in at the very least a remote workforce.
Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#27I'm very keen for this market to open up, but we need to talk about the quality of the desktop before moving on. On the website, the demo has the person drinking coffee, the youtube window is the wrong ratio, the text is too tall. For me, I really want picture perfect rendering before jumping. I don't want to look at badly rendered stuff, its part of the reason linux was so hard back in the day, getting your text to…
What do you do with 8 terminal open at the same time? I can never focus on more than one or two at a time.
Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#28It's important to remember that this is on the way to being an MVP. It's not a finished, polished product. This is HN. Don't we like people hacking on startups any more?
I think it looks like a really positive first step. Yeah, the resolution is too low but that's solvable with a better headset. It's a bit laggy, but that's probably due to recording video of VR being hard. The windows are weird sizes, but that might be user choice. Heck, I personally don't want to code things floating in space, but that's just a matter of choosing a different background. All those problems are solvable.
There are loads more problems that are also likely solvable too. And maybe some that aren't. We don't know yet. I'm glad someone is working on the problem to find out. That's far better than not having, maybe, one day in the distant future, a VR option to use for work.
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#29I'm very keen for this market to open up, but we need to talk about the quality of the desktop before moving on. On the website, the demo has the person drinking coffee, the youtube window is the wrong ratio, the text is too tall. For me, I really want picture perfect rendering before jumping. I don't want to look at badly rendered stuff, its part of the reason linux was so hard back in the day, getting your text to…
What do you do with 8 terminal open at the same time? I can never focus on more than one or two at a time.
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Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#30The video in the website is really bad quality.
this one is better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWLuwG91HnI