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Why can't that OS be one of the standard ones? Sure, it might require special hardware and software (even your screen has it's own software and processing that
by Klathmon 8y ago
Why can't that OS be one of the standard ones?
Sure, it might require special hardware and software (even your screen has it's own software and processing that it is doing on the signals coming from your desktop), and at the end of the day the OS would need to change and evolve to handle this new paradigm, but it's not impossible to imagine a system where the "PC" does what it does now, and just tells the "VR" sub-processor/sub-machine where to put the rendered "window".
Already there are some VR apps that basically wrap your normal "windows" desktop in almost a cylinder around you and you can move screens around on it as much as you want with current VR headsets.
- Stanleyc23 8y agoImo it's not that the traditional OSs can't be the OS of the future. It's that the future OS needs to be developed from scratch without carrying over the assumptions and obligations to older design principles. Historically, this has been very difficult. E. G. Cocoatouch (ios) has significant differences to its cocoa (osx). Bottom line is you have to go all to do it right, but its risky for those big companies that have a financial interest in squeezing out as much value as possible from their cashcow OSs
- kthejoker2 8y agoOne of Andromeda's target platforms is AR (and not just HL2.) And Linux of course gets it. Android, too. Plenty of experimental builds out there, I'm not worried about pivoting.
- azinman2 8y agoAnd those are terrible experiences.