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This maybe the killer app of VR/AR. Another one might be true immersive development and or debugging. I think the visceral sense of scale and spatial relation

This maybe the killer app of VR/AR. Another one might be true immersive development and or debugging. I think the visceral sense of scale and spatial relationship might be a great leap forward in productivity. I think I'd you could navigate a code base in 3D, we could use that part of brain that's subconsciously really good at directions to increase familiarity more rapidly. The database schemas are up the stairs to the left, second door. (Or in the cave passed the willow tree, lol) I've noticed after a few hours in a new games my brain has the map and I have to think less about where I'm going and more about my surroundings. If we can tie into these "coprocessor" parts of our brain, how easier could hard things like math and engineering become for more people? Random thiughts but the 1000th note taking app won't bring us closer but VR just might.

kjellsbells 4y ago
Yes, at least to start with. That is, a mapping from familiar physical objects to virtual ones will help a lot of people get started, and in some cases may make them more productive, in the same way that the desktop with manila files became how we thought about GUIs. The challenge is what is the lowest friction metaphor. A house ? A tree? A neighborhood of streets? Secondly, all metaphors must eventually give way to a new conception of operation to realize the power of the thing. Manila folders don't cut it when you think about symlinks, loopback mounts, serialization, and all the gazillion other ways we use files now. in the metaverse we might start with houses, or plazas, but it can't be where we stop.