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Oh hell yeah! I can't afford it, but I would love to be able to read text and just generally program within VR itself ( review units wink wink ). I saw mention

by fire 5y ago

Oh hell yeah! I can't afford it, but I would love to be able to read text and just generally program within VR itself ( review units wink wink ). I saw mention of Nix - what does steam / proton compatibility look like there? Is there more info available on the compute unit's load profile during typical usage? Any idea whether it would be able to handle running a windows VM with hwaccel at the same time? With a Xe gpu it won't be playing games, but if the performance isn't vomit-inducing it could be a really interesting cross platform development... platform! Have y'all seen VR-OS[1] or talked to Matthaeus[2] about bringing some of its user experience over? Your projects look like a match made in heaven to my eyes. I see the founder's edition is listed as using a "LED Matrix Display" - what does the standard edition use? Is this OLED vs MiniLED? Is hand tracking camera based? How intensive is that on the system? Did other solutions like LIDAR or mini radar[3] present issues? I'm so freaking excited to see how this comes along, and I hope y'all last for a very, very long time. 1: https://youtube.com/c/MatthaeusKrenn https://youtube.com/c/MatthaeusKrenn 2: https://twitter.com/matthaeus https://twitter.com/matthaeus 3: https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/sensor/radar-sensors/radar-sensors-for-iot/60ghz-radar/ https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/sensor/radar-sensors...

kanetw 5y ago
The hand tracking is Ultraleap's assuming they actually deliver the Linux software at some point in the next few months. We're considering backups like using mmWave RADAR. It shouldn't be too intensive (at least not noticeable so far), but I'll double check. The LED matrix display is for the outside. In both the founders' and regular, the internal display are Sharp 2448x2448 LCDs. The regular edition will have a LED matrix display only if we sell enough units, basically. I think I heard about VR-OS but haven't looked deeper; focused on the HW right now. Steam works on Nix afaik (although George is the main Nix user); a Windows VM... should work?
- fire 5y ago
  Ahhh, nice! What's the purpose/utility of the matrix display? Can it be used as a light source? Or maybe a point grid display for pixel art style faces / messages? > I think I heard about VR-OS but haven't looked deeper; focused on the HW right now. That's actually precisely why I brought it up :D > a Windows VM... should work? Ah sorry, I edited my message above to be clearer as far as what I was actually asking ( load profiles and such ). I got so excited that I started brain dumping without a lot of context.
  - kanetw 5y ago
    Communicating with the outside world, basically. DND signs, pixel-y eyes, etc.
    - fire 5y ago
      That's hilarious and I love it. Is the front modular as well? I could see a cool alternative to hack together being an e-ink display
gdown 5y ago
I'm not affiliated at all with simula, but I personally haven't had issues with steam on nixos.

by fire 5y ago

kanetw 5y ago

The hand tracking is Ultraleap's assuming they actually deliver the Linux software at some point in the next few months. We're considering backups like using mmWave RADAR. It shouldn't be too intensive (at least not noticeable so far), but I'll double check. The LED matrix display is for the outside. In both the founders' and regular, the internal display are Sharp 2448x2448 LCDs. The regular edition will have a LED matrix display only if we sell enough units, basically. I think I heard about VR-OS but haven't looked deeper; focused on the HW right now. Steam works on Nix afaik (although George is the main Nix user); a Windows VM... should work?

fire 5y ago
Ahhh, nice! What's the purpose/utility of the matrix display? Can it be used as a light source? Or maybe a point grid display for pixel art style faces / messages? > I think I heard about VR-OS but haven't looked deeper; focused on the HW right now. That's actually precisely why I brought it up :D > a Windows VM... should work? Ah sorry, I edited my message above to be clearer as far as what I was actually asking ( load profiles and such ). I got so excited that I started brain dumping without a lot of context.
- kanetw 5y ago
  Communicating with the outside world, basically. DND signs, pixel-y eyes, etc.
  - fire 5y ago
    That's hilarious and I love it. Is the front modular as well? I could see a cool alternative to hack together being an e-ink display

gdown 5y ago

I'm not affiliated at all with simula, but I personally haven't had issues with steam on nixos.