Simula

The VR computing revolution presents the opportunity for us to get back to the "bicycle of the mind" frame of mind: where computing gives us tools to augment human intellect. For example, there are a set of office applications out there that (i) can make an office worker 10x more productive at his/her job than otherwise and (ii) are only possible to build in VR/AR. The goal for us/people in this ecosystem should be to find them and build them. https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

One of the authors of Simula[1] here (mentioned in this article). xrdesktop looks very impressive. We've been working on our compositor (in particular: XWayland support) for quite a while. Getting a prototype up and running was relatively easy. But it has been incredibly difficult to get everything actually stable/usable. Congrats to your team. [1] https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

You would think that, but as someone who has been in the Natural User Interface R&D field for a decade, I’ll tell you that this is what walking looks like. Our tools as of this year are just on the edge of being able to deliver what a consumer expects. Adding a 3rd dimension makes everything harder and none of the existing assets, let alone functional principals from the 2D world translate. To get what you just called a baby step is an act of barn raising. By thousands of dedicated professionals, tinkerers, artists, scientists, and large corporations. If we could have willed the “baby step” into being before now we would have. Actually many people have, but then quickly notice what’s lacking and get back to raising the barn. Here are a couple projects I pulled with a quick google. I have a bitbucket wiki with dozens of similar projects, s

SimulaVR/Simula is about to release a working prototype for VR Linux Desktop with the HTC Vive. See https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula. Check it out at the end of next month.

Truth be told Linux should become the de-facto desktop. I like that you specifically mention i3. I think there is a strong use case for a Arch-like Linux distro that has an open architecture for building the entire distro from source into container images automatically. It would also allow desktops to be managed from a cluster manager like K8S. At first I thought packages should go with static binaries for packaging, but then quickly realized that they can use dependency containers and what not to dynamically include libraries with multiple version requirements if necessary, but still allowing for dynamic updates too. Using container permissions also give you much of the permission structure you'd be looking for in your OS, much like a mobile device. I'm honestly surprised someone hasn't put in the development efforts to create a truly mo