love that the email waitlist signup goes to wolframcloud
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
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think writing Haskell ever gets easy, at least it hasn't for me over about ten years. Writing good code in any language is hard, but Haskell makes it harder to write bad code. I have to write object-oriented bullshit all day for my job, if I started a fun new project like this I'd happily choose Haskell. If people who only know JS and won't learn anything new can't contribute then that's a cost worth bearing.
> If people who only know JS and won't learn anything new can't contribute then that's a cost worth bearing. I think this is an unfair and unnecessarily-snarky take. My list of languages is fairly long these days. I’ve written php, ruby, and go in reasonable volume for mostly personal projects. I used to teach embedded C at uni. I write python professionally every day. Recently I’ve even started playing with rust (an…
Yeah, I don't really see functional programming being that great of a fit for VR. I mean, the 3D environment is inherently object-oriented and stateful. And you're working in an extremely performance intensive task, such that pure immutability really starts to get in the way. Also, Haskell's lazy evaluation has a bad reputation for poor and/or unpredictable performance. It's better to have a higher mean execution time with an extremely narrow standard deviation so you can plan your frame budget and not occasionally blow it, dropping frames all over the floor.
What you want is something that puts the movement of memory between processes and threads front-and-center. Half the difficulty of writing a 3D rendering engine is coming up with a good memory model for loading 3D models and textures to push them onto the GPU. That really sounds more like Rust's wheelhouse than Haskell.
Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#183One of the founders of Simula here. We're flattered that someone posted us to HN, but we were honestly not ready for this much publicity at this precise stage of our project. It would have been better had this happened a few weeks from now, when we have more accurate footage of our actual prototype to show. Let me explain: 1. *Video footage.* The video footage on the front page of www.simulavr.com is taken against an…
Any price indication? $500, $1000, $2000?
Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#184One of the founders of Simula here. We're flattered that someone posted us to HN, but we were honestly not ready for this much publicity at this precise stage of our project. It would have been better had this happened a few weeks from now, when we have more accurate footage of our actual prototype to show. Let me explain: 1. *Video footage.* The video footage on the front page of www.simulavr.com is taken against an…
Any price indication? $500, $1000, $2000?
Tentatively 2k.
Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If people who only know JS and won't learn anything new can't contribute then that's a cost worth bearing. I think this is an unfair and unnecessarily-snarky take. My list of languages is fairly long these days. I’ve written php, ruby, and go in reasonable volume for mostly personal projects. I used to teach embedded C at uni. I write python professionally every day. Recently I’ve even started playing with rust (an…
Yeah, I don't really see functional programming being that great of a fit for VR. I mean, the 3D environment is inherently object-oriented and stateful. And you're working in an extremely performance intensive task, such that pure immutability really starts to get in the way. Also, Haskell's lazy evaluation has a bad reputation for poor and/or unpredictable performance. It's better to have a higher mean execution tim…
Today I'd definitely use Rust. Most of the rendering work is gone in Godot, which is C++.
GC hasn't been an noticeable issue as a result.
Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#186love that the email waitlist signup goes to wolframcloud
I've been meaning to use a proper service but it works right now and once we're actually sending I'll import the emails and do an opt-in and such.
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Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#188love that the email waitlist signup goes to wolframcloud
I've been meaning to use a proper service but it works right now and once we're actually sending I'll import the emails and do an opt-in and such.
no I like it -- it feels like I'm interacting with a person who's using powerful tools
Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#189The website states "10x more screens ... 10x more focus ... 10x more productivity" That's a stretch! Or where to improve your pitch. Personally the only 10x productivity I get is by disconnecting from wifi. I'd love to see the windows non-square, more like a POV or fisheye if that's possible. Cool product, I hope to use it soon.
After about 2 or 3 visible windows at a given moment, I start becoming more distracted than productive, but this development still seems like an inevitability that I'm excited to try out.
Re: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. We're building the Simula One because we ourselves wanted to work all day in VR, using the best OS (Linux). Here's a fun video I made working on Simula, in Simula: https://youtu.be/FWLuwG91HnI And I love seeing the progress unfold on our own headset, because I can't wait to start working in it.
I should also say that when you work a lot in VR, you get intimately familiar with its improvement bottlenecks: 1. *Text quality.* Text quality is really important, especially to sustain long work sessions. This is why we're pushing as hard as we can on resolution. It's more important for work than it even is for gaming, because gaming doesn't require you to sustain focus on detailed text for long periods of time. 2.…
"because gaming doesn't require you to sustain focus on detailed text for long periods of time"
Have you never played VR Zork? You haven't lived yet.