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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
#62For a work VR headset to work I think you need a couple of things. One is that it needs to be comfortable enough to wear for long periods of time. I usually get quite warm when wearing one. You also often end up with impressions on your face. This is fine for gaming or shorter sessions but would be a distraction if trying to focus for longer periods of time. It would also need to have a higher resolution than most (a…
The issues you're presenting seem real for some, but enthusiasts seem to be making it work[1: post from yesterday].
I like the call in your last point, but personally I think an innovation like 360 degree resizable and movable windows is a reasonable step up from where we're currently at. It would be nice to integrate the work we do into physical space a bit more though. I've wondered about doing practical programming work in an infinifactory-type[2] interface. I don't think it's necessarily a good idea, but it'd be fun to see attempts at no-code tooling embedded in the space.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678041 [2] https://www.zachtronics.com/infinifactory/
Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#63They should probably talk to someone who knows something about ergonomics–the way his neck was craning to look at those vertical "screens" looked painful
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#64I have a question. Why? How it will improve my multi-monitor setup? I see only potential cons here. Wearing headset all day. It doesn't sound good for your neck and eyes, at all.
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#65Excited for this! I know it's early, but everything was early once - VR will definitely be one of the next big computing interfaces, and we need alternatives from the current options being put out by Big Tech.
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#66My neck hurts already just watching that teaser video...
Looks cool though!
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#67I'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.
I'm debugging a embedded system, and have three different minicom sessions going on, looking at the simultaneous output of the various consoles.
In general, I often have up to 10 tabs open on Gnome terminal, and a GNU screen session in each with up to 10 screens. Maintaining lots of context.
Within a single GNU screen session, I'll often have a build window, some editing windows for code, editing windows for config files, etc.
Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#68This is nice and all, but since the dropping in price of larger monitors / TVs, it doesn't seem that practical.
Right now I'm using a 42in LG 4K TV as my monitor, and I've mostly gotten used to it. One thing is that since I'm older, it is nice to push the monitor further away from me than I had in the past, so the monitor itself is on a file cabinet (with an adjustable stand) not sitting on my desk itself.
TVs are not monitors, and it took a bit of fiddling with the TV settings (game console mode, turn off overscan) and drivers on the desktop side, but I'm fairly pleased with the setup these days. I really like having additional vertical space for editing windows.
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#69There's a bunch of old guys from Norway here for you, complaining that your name was already taken.
Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#70For me personally, my main concern would be text readability. It was probably an older model, but on a Vive I played games on for a good while I was struggling to read text on the game's HUD (Elite Dangerous). Pixelation in the center was also an issue, but manageable.
I get by my workday nowadays with minimal head movement, enough to avoid it getting stuck but I don't have to crane around too much. That's probably not an issue in a VR environment either though, since your primary thing will be in front of you as well.
Comfort is another one, I think I'd like to be more reclined if I didn't have to look at a screen. But then I'm worried about muscle atrophy, I don't do enough sports and exercise as it is.