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I am a coder. Where exactly is the advantage in editing source code or interacting with deployment chains, systems etc. in an animated neon colored fantasy exp

I am a coder. Where exactly is the advantage in editing source code or interacting with deployment chains, systems etc. in an animated neon colored fantasy experienced through a headset compared to doing so on a plain-old laptop? Because I have tried VR & AR solutions before in my line of work, and so far I have experienced them as slower, more cumbersome and harder to interface with existing systems. Every tried to type on a "virtual keyboard"? Ever tried navigating a 20000 LOC codebase using "haptic gestures"? My screenbound IDE and my keyboard let me do that in the blink of an eye.

coldtea 5y ago
>Where exactly is the advantage in editing source code or interacting with deployment chains, systems etc. in an animated neon colored fantasy experienced through a headset compared to doing so on a plain-old laptop? In that it finally validates the "hacking" scenes in tacky 90s movies...
- usrbinbash 5y ago
  Just out of curiosity, we are both thinking about 1995s "Hackers" with Johnny Miller & Angelina Jolie, yes? :-)
  - coldtea 5y ago
    Among other movies, yes. But it was a common trope :-)
selfhoster11 5y ago
Granted, VR may not be a good input method for bursts of high-speed, high-dexterity input (so, coding), but I can see its advantages in Ops contexts and for read-only navigation. Imagine a build pipeline represented as a 3D chain of shapes (one shape per pipeline run). Drag the latest shape in the chain forward, then release it - when it snaps back, you've initiated a new build, with a "ghost" shape left it place to represent that a run is in progress (it will become solid when the run finishes). Pick it up and throw it in the trash to delete a faulty build. Pick it up and place it on a pedestal labelled "release" to deploy it to production. VR will finally leverage Object Oriented Programming in the way it should have been used all along - spatial manipulation of digital objects that use pretty good physical metaphors for what they are.
- usrbinbash 5y ago
  >Pick it up and place it on a pedestal labelled "release" to deploy it to production. Or I could simply `git push` and let the CI/CD pipeline take over. That's 9 keystrokes, including the ENTER. And I don't have to wear an expensive, fragile and usually heavy contraption on my head that has to be recharged every 2-3h for this to work either. >spatial manipulation of digital objects that use pretty good physical metaphors for what they are. What does this have to do with OOP?

coldtea 5y ago

>Where exactly is the advantage in editing source code or interacting with deployment chains, systems etc. in an animated neon colored fantasy experienced through a headset compared to doing so on a plain-old laptop? In that it finally validates the "hacking" scenes in tacky 90s movies...

usrbinbash 5y ago
Just out of curiosity, we are both thinking about 1995s "Hackers" with Johnny Miller & Angelina Jolie, yes? :-)
- coldtea 5y ago
  Among other movies, yes. But it was a common trope :-)

selfhoster11 5y ago

Granted, VR may not be a good input method for bursts of high-speed, high-dexterity input (so, coding), but I can see its advantages in Ops contexts and for read-only navigation. Imagine a build pipeline represented as a 3D chain of shapes (one shape per pipeline run). Drag the latest shape in the chain forward, then release it - when it snaps back, you've initiated a new build, with a "ghost" shape left it place to represent that a run is in progress (it will become solid when the run finishes). Pick it up and throw it in the trash to delete a faulty build. Pick it up and place it on a pedestal labelled "release" to deploy it to production. VR will finally leverage Object Oriented Programming in the way it should have been used all along - spatial manipulation of digital objects that use pretty good physical metaphors for what they are.

usrbinbash 5y ago
>Pick it up and place it on a pedestal labelled "release" to deploy it to production. Or I could simply `git push` and let the CI/CD pipeline take over. That's 9 keystrokes, including the ENTER. And I don't have to wear an expensive, fragile and usually heavy contraption on my head that has to be recharged every 2-3h for this to work either. >spatial manipulation of digital objects that use pretty good physical metaphors for what they are. What does this have to do with OOP?