Simula

We need to get Vim³ running in SimulaVR: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

We are building a Linux platform for this in VR/AR: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula The goal is to get things working suitably well for vanilla 2D apps on standalone headsets, and then start building the actual 3D OS apps geared towards office work/tools for thought (things like: 3D programming code graphs, 3D spreadsheets, and other things that VR uniquely can facilitate). Sample video of what it looks like right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm72Qmi8Bik

You might be interested in this project: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula Not affiliated

Somewhat related: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula. This is the same concept but with VR.

> Most workflows can benefit from multiple monitors. it's a silly thing to be bottlenecked by screen area on a fancy computer when used 1080p monitors are nearly free in 2020. If this is your cup of tea, I recommend checking out VR Desktop style workflows (arguably a good way to experience "working in The Future™", with infinite screens, customizable environments, etc). Here is one for Linux that we've been working on for a few years: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

Nice post. I look forward also to a future where Godot helps facilitate VR (office) applications as well. We have developed SimulaVR (https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula -- a Linux VR Desktop) on top of Godot, and I think there's a lot of potential for this in Linux.

I had to move from NYC to Oklahoma to save SimulaVR (https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula). This was over a year ago, and I'm still here. Because of this I have saved an enormous amount of money (such that I'm still able to work full time on SimulaVR while I search for VC funding elsewhere). The other co-founder of Simula is also remote (in Germany). Since this was pre-pandemic, it's been very hard to explain to VCs who are still pattern matching on previous waves of startups. With that said, there has also been an enormous cost to this: living somewhere besides a major city. Yes, it's true that SF/NY have horrific governance, regulatory policies, taxes, and so forth (which cause high rents). The groupthink there is also unbearable. Other than these issues, however, these cities are indisputably better in every way than anywhere else in

> There is just something so lacking with VR if you don't want to play games. Yes, it's lacking more apps. Which is rather a Catch-22. There has to be demand for them. Games are just an 'easy' (relatively speaking) medium to get into. There are a few practical concerns of course. In a work environment, your manager can no longer easily interrupt you. They can't easily keep tabs on what you are doing either. This is enough to kill it at a workplace – maybe an exception for some engineering/medical settings. If you want to experiment with something that's not a game, take a look at this: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

Programming in VR Desktop: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula (see the README for a link to a video of it in action). This allows you to (i) distribute your work tasks intuitively across space; (ii) completely zap out all distractions within a VR headset; (iii) completely eliminate the mouse and work 100% on a keyboard (VR Desktop allows you to click and browse with eye gaze). It takes a bit of practice to learn the keyboard shorcuts (spawning terminals, moving windows, etc with keyboard shortcuts), but once you learn it, it can feel very immersive/productive.

RE eyestrain: here are a couple of links showing off Simula's text quality: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/blob/gdwlroots-xwayland/d... https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/blob/gdwlroots-xwayland/d... I haven't used Windows' Virtual Desktop since the early days, but I suspect our text enhancements have improved upon the situation dramatically (when keeping hardware constant).

A tip for finding out the email of a Github user: choose any of their commits, open it on Github and add ".patch" at the end of the URL, like this [1]. There's a good chance they use a real email to sign their commits. [1] https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/commit/19cf46894cae1962e9...

Agreed that VR isn't comparable to 4K screens (yet), but for what it's worth I regularly put in 1hr+ long SimulaVR sessions with the good ol' 2016 HTC Vive. Here are a couple of links showing off Simula's text quality: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/blob/gdwlroots-xwayland/d... https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/blob/gdwlroots-xwayland/d... Many early VR Desktops (and VR games) didn't go to special effort to optimize text quality, and I think this has given people a lower than warranted impression of what is possible in VR today (even on old headsets).

RE eye strain, here are a couple of links showing off Simula's text quality: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/blob/gdwlroots-xwayland/d... https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/blob/gdwlroots-xwayland/d... Many early VR Desktops (and VR games) didn't go to special effort to optimize text quality, and I think this has given people a lower than warranted impression of what is possible in VR today. There's no doubt that VR hardware is going to get exponentially lighter/sharper over time, and that these improvements will be welcome, but things are good enough now to put in 1hr+ long sessions without eye strain (at least in my experience as a daily user).

I am not sure if there is prior art for X11 proper, but there is at least one Wayland compositor built on top of the Godot engine that can run X programs through XWayland: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula And yes, with a bit of hacking you can do silly things like put physics on the windows and shoot holes in them. It won't get you close to what is in that Unity demo though. That would require re-designing all the apps. In my experience it's a massive pain in the ass to get eye-candy like that working correctly for arbitrary UIs and it's not worth the effort for most apps.