Interesting, I don't know how I feel about replacing desktops/laptops with VR but it's been around 5 years since I've been in VR. Recently, I finished reading "

Interesting, I don't know how I feel about replacing desktops/laptops with VR but it's been around 5 years since I've been in VR. Recently, I finished reading "Dawn of a New Everything" by Jaron Lanier, one of the pioneers of VR that brought the first commercial headset to market in the early 80s at VPL. In that era, the hardware wasn't nearly powerful to maintain any kind of fidelity (I think this was before even graphics cards were a thing) and the VR sets themselves cost ~$70000, but some of the things he mentions doing are still absent today. Phenotropic software, as I first encountered in [0], could be conceived of as maximum encapsulation in VR, where instead of writing code one interfaces with virtual objects, or builds objects to do so, etc. In the book he claims they were developing their software this way in the 80s, but there aren't any surviving examples. In any case I think it's a fascinating research direction. At the very least VR should lead us away from the teletype based interfaces we work in today. Alongside headsets, VPL was known for the Data Glove, a peripheral which I feel is lacking in the modern VR ecosystem. Using a QWERTY keyboard in VR is almost some cruel joke, and the modern "do it all in ML" ethos can't account for haptics. I don't know who, but someone is going to come up with the next great human interface device for VR. Perhaps it will even be tongue oriented, which Lanier points out is one of the most controllable muscles. Anyways, I'm excited for the Simula One, though it's well beyond my price point. We definitely need more open hardware that can be built on, especially if it's an all-in-one product like the Quest. Good luck! [0] https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-why-gordian-software-has-convinced-me-to-believe-in-the-reality-of-cats https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-why-gordian-s...