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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

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Post by chungus »

Fun note, almost all of it is written in Haskell. If I remember correctly they've also done a bunch of stuff that helps Godot, or at least something to do with the Haskell bindings. Very accessible guys, I once asked a question on the gitter, and got helpful replies almost immediately.

Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux

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Post by isatty »

kleinsch wrote: post #39

From the wiki on their Github [1] and looking at Github contributors, this is a 3 person project (and no Github commits since June 2021). They're clearly not making their own VR headset, they're using something off the shelf (from other comments seems like an HTC Vive). Making the website ambiguous about this is just confusing. I saw a couple YC apps in there, so I'm sure they had to be ambitious, but thinking realis…

I suppose it’s a difficult field to enter? Idk if it’s needed but my naive assumption is that I won’t be able to contribute without having a VR headset.

Speaking of, what’s a good VR headset that I can purchase in ‘21 that does not have anything to do with FB? I enjoyed playing Alyx on the Index so that’s my prime candidate for now, for both gaming and productivity.

Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux

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Post by amelius »

onion2k wrote: post #28

It'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…

> It'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?

It doesn't need to be a finished product. Just give FOSS developers something to work with, and the finished product will automatically emerge ;)

Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux

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Post by VortexDream »

dgellow wrote: post #27
KaiserPro wrote: post #20

I'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.

Maintain context. I might have several terminals up, each ssh'd to a different server. At least one terminal per software project. It helps that I use a tiling manager, so I can keep them all visible at the same time.

Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux

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Post by marco_craveiro »

dgellow wrote: post #27
KaiserPro wrote: post #20

I'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.

In Emacs I have tens of eshells open, not to mention SSH sessions, etc! I use one shell per task and then context switch using Emacs buffer switching machinery.

Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux

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Post by maaaaattttt »

butterisgood wrote: post #46

I would definitely try AR glasses as a monitor replacement but I find most VR headsets to make me feel pretty ill after less than one hour.

I feel the same. I'd be ready to pay good money for an AR headset focused on replacing external monitors (no gaming but very good text readability). AR and not VR because I don't want to be completely isolated from my surroundings.

And, if luminosity would allow, working outside with it would be a dream come true to me!

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