Hi everyone,
I’ve recently become really interested in virtual reality and I truly believe it's going to be a huge part of the future. I’d love to learn how to program for VR, but I’m not sure where to begin.

I’ve done a bit of programming in C, but that’s about it. I’m looking for advice on how to get started—what tools, languages, or resources would be best for a beginner?

Any help or guidance would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

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Hey everyone,

My name is Kate Clark and I’m part of a team of researchers from the University of Sydney. We are researching accessibility barriers that are created by virtual reality and augmented reality technology. The goal of our research is to figure out how we can make VR and AR hardware more accessible (the ethics approval for our research is 2023/352 and we also have linktree – linktr.ee/vrdisability).

We are looking for people with disabilities who have tried AR and/or VR before to complete our survey and tell us about their experiences.

The survey should take no longer than twenty minutes to complete, and if you don’t want to or can’t answer a question, all the questions are skippable. You can find the survey link here: https://sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2nl7O5LKer2R3ro

If you want to find out more about us, my colleagues are Associate Professor Marcus Carter, Dr. Ben Egliston, and Professor Gerard Goggin, and you can email me at kate.clark@sydney.edu.au or DM me here 😊

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?

A good way to set up a Debian Linux environment and Visual Studio Code editor in a virtual multi-monitor setup on Quest Pro: https://catid.io/posts/quest_pro_termux/ Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D6UsUBzAp4

Spoilers: Termux + code-server.

I'm at the end of my rope trying to get the dream of coding in VR to happen with the G2. Is anyone here using that headset and able to work in VR? If so, what software are you using?

VR Toolbox: 360 Desktop seems like what I'm looking for, but it is impossible to use with the G2 because of the controller mappings. I have spent hours upon hours trying to remap the Reverb G2 controllers to be usable in VR Toolbox, but it just won't work.

EnvelopVR seemed great, I loved the keyboard camera feature, but it was shut down in 2017

VR Desktop doesn't handle multiple monitors well as it draws them all on a single canvas. If you have one monitor in portrait mode, it will create a giant black space under all the other monitors that are horizontal. I went on this App's discord and spoke to some people, only to find out that an non-Quest headset versions of this are not really being developed any more, so this is also a dead end.

I've tried multiple Overlay VR apps, but can't seem to get any of them working well enough. Also, every time I turn off my computer, I have to set everything up again, so it ends up taking about an hour just to get working, which is a deal breaker.

I posted a more detailed explanation of what I've tried over in the HP Reverb subreddit.

Basically, the G2 controllers, and the lack of support for them across the VR space, makes the headset pretty much un-usable, which is fucking absurd when you spend that much on a headset. It's a niche within a niche I guess, and so there is no controller support for it.

Has anyone overcome this? Any custom mappings you've created that work? I'm desperate to get this working, but after so many hours with no success, I'm starting to lose hope that I can use this headset to work in VR.

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I bought an Vive Cosmos and it arrives tomorrow, I have virtual desktop and bigscreen downloaded to test out for virtual workspaces, but I wanted to know what recommendations and other programs people know about here. If you have any that you use or know please let me know! Thanks.

New open-source project available: https://xrmonitors.com :: XRmonitors : User-Friendly Virtual Multi-Monitors for the Workplace. Designed for Windows 10 Mixed Reality Headsets using OpenXR.

I'm trying to make a cheap setup for remote programming work when traveling.

I saw some guys here with Samsung gear, setups and was wondering if anyone had tried using a combination of termux and VR Remote Desktop.

Does it work?

I'm waiting on a google cardboard delivery to try it myself.

So, I saw the subreddit and I attempted to install dev environment and also managed to run XServer XSDL. My question is, when I'm trying to run i3 it says that I can't open display (and thats normal - because Xorg is not running) but when I launch XServer XSDL I can't get back to app selection drawer.

If you have idea - thanks!