Devs are missing the point of VR

Re:Devs are missing the point of VR by fspacek on Monday October 10, 2022 @12:48PM (#33153636)

Somebody needs to make a 4D function viewer for regular old 3D VR. And then look at the Riemann Zeta function

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Re:Devs are missing the point of VR by fspacek on Monday October 10, 2022 @12:54PM (#33153721)

Then will truly be able to resurrect Hilbert from Death ;-)

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Re:Devs are missing the point of VR by loa_in_ on Monday October 10, 2022 @02:30PM (#33154852)

Isn't there anything like that already? If so, I was really overestimating our progress in the field of VR (I don't own a VR headset)

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Re:Devs are missing the point of VR by falcolas on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:00PM (#33155804)

Yes, there are tools for looking at running programs as 3d objects in VR, as well for static analysis of programs.

The one I looked at a few years back was focused on JVM programs, so it created a 2d graph of objects, and while running moved those graphs into 3d as the classes were instantiated. An intuitive view that made it easy to identify memory issues and poor relationships. A set of colored lines displayed the execution of code (one color per thread), making it a great tool for identifying bottlenecks.

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Re:Devs are missing the point of VR by adalacelove on Monday October 10, 2022 @03:22PM (#33155413)

I think there is a lot of educational potential in VR

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Re:Devs are missing the point of VR by ahelwer on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:13PM (#33155921)

Not to crack open a very annoying semantic argument again but our vision of the 3D world is just a 2D plane so having "3D" - by which I guess you mean perception of depth through parallax - would do little to ease visualization of 4D surfaces.

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