Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [video]

Re:Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [... by mschuetz on Saturday December 14, 2019 @12:11PM (#21790539)

Somewhat similar project I've been working on: Live Coding in JavaScript and VR https://github.com/m-schuetz/Fenek

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhGNhKVAqW0

This allows you to modify the code of the VR render engine directly at runtime while you're in VR.

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Re:Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [... by gfodor on Saturday December 14, 2019 @08:43PM (#21793871)

You might be interested in RiftSketch:

https://github.com/brianpeiris/RiftSketch

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Re:Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [... by mschuetz on Saturday December 14, 2019 @11:12PM (#21794405)

I am! RiftSketch is great. We just rolled our own because we needed OpenGL 4.5 and access to visual studio code within the VR window. So our live coding framework is a native desktop app that uses V8 to bind javascript calls to C++ and OpenGL 4.5, and the windows desktop mirror API to render the desktop, and visual studio code along with it, in VR. Apart from the C++ core, virtually all aspects of the application can be modified at runtime by modifying the JS files and simply saving them. JS files are executed on save, and structured in a way so that they replace previously loaded functions with new ones.

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