Re:Moving the Linux desktop to another reality
by travbrack on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @11:13PM
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Have you done a lot of VR gaming? My eyes are killing me after an hour. I can't imagine doing 8 hours a day. Not saying this everyone's experience, and I'm curious if others are more tolerant of spending long periods of time in VR.
Re:Moving the Linux desktop to another reality
by shultays on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @09:55AM
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VR resolution drops very quick when you look at something virtual from half meter away. If your virtual screen takes up to 1/4th of your screen for example it will be reduced to ~720p in a vr with 4k resolutipn per eye. Virtual desktops are not really useful as you think.
Plus VR strains your eye really quick and that comfortable to wear for long periods of time
I use four monitors at work and two 4K monitors at home. A high-resolution VR setup gives you infinite workspace. Couple that with intelligent auto window management and you can forget moving windows around EVER again -- this is the ultimate mouseless experience that a tiling window manager can't even get close to.
This is a huge productivity gain. The micro context switches that stem from moving between windows and tabs (or worse, virtual desktops each with windows and tabs) goes away. Workspaces become spatial, and you can leverage your brain's innate spatial reasoning to find and organize things.
Physical project workspaces are laid out logically. We've been constrained to screens and haven't had the freedom of doing this for our virtual ones.