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Floating windows are cool but VR operating systems will be much more interesting when they start integrating 3d tactile widgets and mixed reality. For example,
by ilaksh 3y ago
Floating windows are cool but VR operating systems will be much more interesting when they start integrating 3d tactile widgets and mixed reality. For example, to access your disk it could look like a shelf you pull down from above or something which renders each directory as nested boxes.
Or a collection of retro games could display in mixed reality as if it were real boxed games on a shelf along your real wall.
Or it could be integrated with a smart home control system so you could just point at a light to turn it on.
- RajT88 3y agoI could see Microsoft making this. ...And then mothballing it, because they couldn't figure out how to make mountains of money off it.
- jsmith45 3y ago>> Or a collection of retro games could display in mixed reality as if it were real boxed games on a shelf along your real wall. > I could see Microsoft making this. The first quoted part is actually similar to part of the old Microsoft BOB concept. Indeed some Later version of Packard Bell Navigator (which was basically a Bob clone) literally had general programs presented as box software sitting on a shelf.
- YurgenJurgensen 3y agoI'm honestly surprised there isn't already a VR frontend for Steam that works just like your second example. Valve love upselling on virtual items like profile pictures, backgrounds, trading cards, emotes, so a virtual bedroom full of virtual consoles and virtual doodads that you can show off to other users seems like it'd pay for itself. And they already have a VR team.