Re:Oculus Rift is Shipping
by andreapaiola on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @12:58AM
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I don't understand if your head or your entire body rotates: if it's your head I can tell you that is not e good idea. I have bad neck just with 3 monitors...
Re:Oculus Rift is Shipping
by brianwawok on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @12:38PM
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Sounds like I could do all this with 2 or 3 nice big monitors. Then I can turn my real head and see new things, and not have to wear a giant headset.
I could also imagine a Window Manager where every window is placed in a large (huge) sphere that surrounds you and your chair (you are stationary in the middle). You could turn you head to see and interact with windows that are nearby or you could zoom out and rotate the whole sphere by using some shortcut or other device (maybe an ergonomic mouse with a ball on top of it [1], such that the sphere around you rotates in the same direction as the ball of the mouse). You could still map virtual desktops to a zone on the sphere (or perhaps just create virtual spheres). With some handy keyboard shortcuts I could imagine this to became quite awesome. Especially for programmers that use many windows at the same time.
1: http://www.ergodirect.com/images/Logitech/16728/large/Logite...