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I have a question. Why? How it will improve my multi-monitor setup? I see only potential cons here. Wearing headset all day. It doesn't sound good for your neck

I have a question. Why? How it will improve my multi-monitor setup? I see only potential cons here. Wearing headset all day. It doesn't sound good for your neck and eyes, at all.

Stevvo 5y ago
If you don't have the space for a multi monitor setup then virtual monitors could be an alternative.
mentos 5y ago
Yea I don't think its going to improve a multi-monitor setup. Having a real office illuminated by the trillions of ray traces from the free sun in the sky is always going to be better than VR. That's why I really think the future is going to be an AR display that lets you leverage 90% of the real world with 10% of a simulated overlay. But! the road to the AR future is paved with VR work like this so I dare not write it off as useless.
- jermaustin1 5y ago
  My office is an interior room, no windows. VR is definitely better than my office.
fudged71 5y ago
You might have it backwards about neck movement. Sitting at a desk looking at a monitor in one position sounds terrible for your neck. With VR you don't have physical (and cost) limitations of having screens above and below you, they could be all around you. You could even program the screen(s) to slowly rotate around you to induce motion so your neck/body isn't in the same place all day.
xtracto 5y ago
This reminds me a lot of SphereXP [1] A WindowsXP application that converted your desktop into a "spherical" desktop. I agree on the cons: Wearing a headset all day? Also I wonder how looking at a light-bulb at 5cm of your eyes all day long will feel like. OTOH for me one _advantage_ that these type of VR/AR technologies can bring is are "endless desktop space". Right now we have something like that with "multiple desktops" in Linux and OSX. But it will be cool to have just an endless space of screen real-estate to tile all open windows. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeHe-li-cZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeHe-li-cZE

I have a question. Why? How it will improve my multi-monitor setup? I see only potential cons here. Wearing headset all day. It doesn't sound good for your neck and eyes, at all.

Stevvo 5y ago

If you don't have the space for a multi monitor setup then virtual monitors could be an alternative.

mentos 5y ago

Yea I don't think its going to improve a multi-monitor setup. Having a real office illuminated by the trillions of ray traces from the free sun in the sky is always going to be better than VR. That's why I really think the future is going to be an AR display that lets you leverage 90% of the real world with 10% of a simulated overlay. But! the road to the AR future is paved with VR work like this so I dare not write it off as useless.

jermaustin1 5y ago
My office is an interior room, no windows. VR is definitely better than my office.

fudged71 5y ago

You might have it backwards about neck movement. Sitting at a desk looking at a monitor in one position sounds terrible for your neck. With VR you don't have physical (and cost) limitations of having screens above and below you, they could be all around you. You could even program the screen(s) to slowly rotate around you to induce motion so your neck/body isn't in the same place all day.

xtracto 5y ago

This reminds me a lot of SphereXP [1] A WindowsXP application that converted your desktop into a "spherical" desktop. I agree on the cons: Wearing a headset all day? Also I wonder how looking at a light-bulb at 5cm of your eyes all day long will feel like. OTOH for me one _advantage_ that these type of VR/AR technologies can bring is are "endless desktop space". Right now we have something like that with "multiple desktops" in Linux and OSX. But it will be cool to have just an endless space of screen real-estate to tile all open windows. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeHe-li-cZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeHe-li-cZE