3D Windowing System Developed Using Wayland, Oculus Rift 72
An anonymous reader writes Developed as part of a university master thesis is this "truly 3D" windowing system environment. The 3D desktop was developed as a Qt Wayland compositor and output to an Oculus Rift display and then controlled using a high-precision Razer mouse. Overall, it's interesting research for bringing 2D windows into a 3D workspace using Wayland and the Oculus Rift. The code is hosted as the Motorcar Compositor. A video demonstration is on YouTube.
Re:What's old is new again (Score:5, Insightful)
But in theory each time it cycles its less expensive, more advanced, and more available.
Re:Turn your head to switch documents (Score:2, Insightful)
"180 degrees of low-rez, headache-inducing documents might just make that hypothetical trader of yours shoot himself in the face"
So, what you're saying is that this should be implemented immediately then?
Re:Turn your head to switch documents (Score:4, Insightful)
the best way to use a word processor or a spreadsheet is still the good old flat desktop with no bells and whistles
Unless you want to quickly view more documents than your desk has monitors. This could let you have 180 degrees of documents surrounding you. A securities day trader would climax over this.
CTRL+TAB is faster than turning and focusing on a different monitor.
Next challenger, please.
No, God damn it! (Score:5, Insightful)
There's a reason I don't have 13 desks in my office, and a reason I have a three-wide monitor configuration. I want to see everything at once, not have to sift or "wander" through some 3D space to find what I'm looking for.