I want to be working in VR. Once the resolution gets decent enough I can just get 20 screens wherever I look. Plus I can sit, stand, whatever. Sounds fantastic. Coffee might get a bit cumbersome though.

A straw, maybe?

> Once the resolution gets decent enough I can just get 20 screens wherever I look.

Isn't that stressful on your neck? In the current environment you can also have 20 screens and switch via key-combinations or using the mouse.

I think this problem is solved already, see this video about TrackIR from 1:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AO0F5sLdVM (it is called motion scaling). Of course people may still get injuries from this if they do it for 40 hours a week...

In VR that would likely make you violently ill

I think my ideal VR workspace would be one screen directly in front of me, and then as many screens as I want off in the distance.

You'd be able to easily see the screens in the distance and look for updates/etc and just click on it or whatever to pull that screen closer to you if you want to actually read on that screen.

This is my ideal for VR. I'm really hanging out for the day I can create infinite amount of virtual screens, and reconfigure screen layouts on the fly.

Throw in a camera so you can toggle AR mode when needed (coffee), and you have my dream workstation.

Put trackers on your hands and coffee mug and you should be able to drink coffee normally with a bit of practice.

I'm mostly worried about the goggles being in the way

Yeah me too, but I guess it will take a long time before we have headsets that can reproduce the same experience as high resolution screens.

We just need one 8k screen per eye, which will be doable as soon as 8k smartphones are on the market.

Sadly having an 8k screen on a smartphone seems mostly pointless, and achieving the necessary economies of scale is hard with VR headsets alone.

My biggest hope is a paradigm shift in UI design. Everything we have is designed to accommodate low resolution screens. With ubiquitous high resolution screens UI patterns from print like "lean in to read this detail" become viable, and if popular would justify much higher display resolutions, directly benefiting VR.

Maybe vector-based CRTs like in oscilloscopes can be made small enough to use in headsets (if they haven't already). Either project floating text on transparent AR glasses or project a text layer on the lower resolution graphics display. I'd prefer the AR approach if it means I won't need a $500 GPU to generate floating text.

Maybe it could improve ergonomics? A lot of people suffer injury from the posture required to sit at a desk looking at a monitor all day. A sufficiently high resolution VR display could be combined with a reclined posture that supports the head, neck, and back. Of course there's the whole input method problem to solve too. :)

Searching for VR porn?

For the same reason I alt-tab out of a game to check something.

Privacy.

Or simply use a Laptop Sock:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bekathwia/2462986853

This was a genuinely interesting rabbit hole. Never seen this before. Thanks.