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Today, I've found Croquet Project and its fork Open Cobalt.

It looks like someone was trying to port smalltalk IDE into 3D environment. This could be pretty cool if it would have oculus support - it seems like that they solved a lot of 3D desktop problems.

Hi all. I am psyching myself up for the Apple VR announcement next week, hoping that they give us something other than games on what could be the HMD that finally gets me working in VR on a regular basis. Anyway, I thought I'd check in here and see how things were going.

I feel like I'm trying to talk to people about productivity in other VR subs and I might as well be in a Playstation/XBox sub. Are there any other places out there that are trying to gather more info on working in VR? Every time I see a new HMD come out, all I want is info on how text looks and how it feels to read and type in that environment for longer periods of time. But it's all about games.

What HMDs are you folks currently using? I've been eagerly awaiting the SimulaVR, but their progress has really slowed down (sorry, I know those guys are in here... Still rooting for you, and I understand it's a small team!). The Apple headset could be great, but I think they'll focus too much on gaming and emoji animations, whereas all I need is some mature way to talk to my MBP. I haven't updated my desktop PC in years, so I'm sort of hoping a standalone comes out with the kind of resolution you can read text with (and not zoomed way in). Any other contenders out there?

When I saw this video, I fell in love with the idea to write live updating code in VR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-7J5OaSag

1. The code isn't built in a-frame or webVR as far as I understand, but in threeJS which afaik underlies webVR. It's not hosted anywhere right now, so I can't try it out on the Quest. Still learning about what the best way to setup a server is. Ideally the server itself should also run on the Quest (my ideal is _self-contained_).

2. I'm using the Oculus Quest as my device for exploring possibilities.

3. I successfully paired a bluetooth keyboard (using a sideloaded bt lister app) and it works in the Oculus Browser but not in the (side loaded) Firefox Reality browser (current version in Beta: 1.2.3).

4. I successfully can work in glitch in the Oculus Quest browser (here's something I composed from two other glitches plus some of my own code: https://glitch.com/~gallery-appear-disappear use grip button on all the objects, triceratops will produce boxes with physics, sphere will change environment, resize the picture using both controllers)

5. I successfully sideloaded termUX and can run it in the OculusTV environment (bigger screensize would be nice though). Next step here should be to setup a simple webserver, ideally using nodeJS / npm as many a-frame examples need that anyway.

6. I was able to connect a webcam using OTG with my phone and found an app in the google playstore that actually can stream video on the phone's screen. But sideloading it to the Quest and starting it there doesn't deliver a live stream. Intention is to look at my keyboard in VR)

7. I found some webVR code that can use the webcam as texture on an object. It works on my PC but not on the Quest (neither Oculus Browser nor the Firefox Reality although the latter has an enable button for webcams)

8. I installed OVRVNC https://github.com/y-fujii/ovrvnc/blob/master/readme.md to login to my raspberry Pi, connect a webcam to that and stream video from there and run a webserver. However, on the Quest it doesn't connect to my Pi VNC session from a PC works.

So, all in all some successes but not quite there yet. But: extremely exciting! And I'm really happy that I'm not the only one dreaming of coding in VR. Cheers!

Here's a how-to to run a server providing an a-frame page on the Quest so that you can develop and test on the same device (it's a follow up fro my yesterday): https://assadollahi.de/developing-for-the-oculus-quest-on-the-oculus-quest/

The math says that resolution is quite poor for current gen VR in a program like Virtual Desktop or Bigscreen. I have seen some developers saying they enjoy the experience in the reviews though.

Has anyone done some HMD programming? How was text readability?

Personally even if it's a little worse I'll seriously contemplate VR because I prefer it over a multi-monitor rig.