kanetw

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by kanetw 7y ago
Yes, a tiling functionality is something we're considering as a future feature. In fact, the shortcut system is inspired by it. I'll put curved windows onto our todo list. Not sure if they're a good idea for all applications
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by kanetw 7y ago
Major hurdle would be porting Wayland/wlroots to MacOS I think.
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by kanetw 7y ago
Yeah, this should be a separate tool. There's some issues with multiple access I bet that's solvable.
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by kanetw 7y ago
The core issue with surface (text) quality is essentially that classic texture filtering fails for surfaces here. So we set a higher DPI than usual, and then use a supersampling algorithm with a suitable kernel as a lowpass filter. This all
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by kanetw 7y ago
We implement a Wayland compositor interface via `wlroots`. Windows can launch like usual in our environment (i.e. via DISPLAY or WAYLAND_DISPLAY). X11 apps are supported via Xwayland.
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by kanetw 7y ago
1) I think that'll be super disorienting, but we might add a quicksnap feature like in HL Alyx to rotate your head quickly. 2) I believe we already have that (via Super-') 3) Good idea. Being able to instantly fullsize and "p
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by kanetw 7y ago
Packaging this was an absolute nightmare due to various distributions shipping incompatible library versions and so on. Nix, despite issues with everything OpenGL related, was the only thing that actually worked. And Cachix made installatio
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by kanetw 7y ago
We do actually plan to design standalone portable devices as a longer-term business plan. The AR idea is really interesting. We'll try replacing the background with "reality" as seen from the HMD cameras.
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by kanetw 7y ago
Or in cramped environments where you don't always have space for a multi-monitor setup.
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by kanetw 7y ago
Great ideas. I've started a Github project to keep track of usability improvements and added them there.
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by kanetw 7y ago
Pancake is the 2D view observers see when they're looking at the monitor (i.e. that what gets recorded). Yeah, both rotation and translation would be filtered in the idea I had, so that small wiggling motions aren't as visible.
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by kanetw 7y ago
SimulaVR (unrelated to Simula) is written mostly in Haskell, with Godot as the engine.
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by kanetw 7y ago
No idea actually. I haven't noticed any strain or discomfort though so whatever it is is fairly compatible with how your brain works.
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by kanetw 7y ago
I wear glasses and VR is fine for me. I know some people who can't use it with glasses, but I think that's for clearance reasons. There's prescription lenses for headsets, but they're fairly expensive and IMO only worth
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by kanetw 7y ago
Since Oculus Quest doesn't support SteamVR on Linux (AFAIK; they might have added support), not directly. We'd have to implement a Godot VR interface for the Quest. If they have Linux support at all, this should be doable.
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by kanetw 7y ago
I wonder if a separate camera for pancake with a larger FOV would help, with the translation (e: and rotation) matrix lowpass-filtered from user orientation.
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by kanetw 7y ago
Unfortunate name collision, and we never got around to renaming ourselves. I'll bring it up with George.
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by kanetw 7y ago
Navigation is one of the things we definitely need to improve upon. I think the wiggling is actually kind of natural -- you don't notice your head or eye movements when you do them automatically, but it might be exacerbated in VR. The
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by kanetw 7y ago
> Is it possible to have a giant curved "screen"? SteamVR does this, but I've found it less useful than movable/resizable windows. > I feel we are just scratching the surface of what's possible. Definitely. Th
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by kanetw 7y ago
It's based on wlroots, but Wayland is less supported than the X compatibility layer via Xwayland. That's fixable though.
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by kanetw 7y ago
Yeah, Haskell was an interesting choice. I started working on it _because_ it was a Haskell project. Overall it was a pretty rough road, but someone has to go first and I'd really like for Haskell graphics to take off. I ended up writi
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by kanetw 10y ago
Shame you're not hiring from EU proper :(
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by kanetw 11y ago
It was broken much, much earlier. At first you required an external device (special cartridge) or hardware mods, but there was a software exploit via the web browser for over a year now.