![]() We plan on providing keyboard aprons to help with this freedom of movement. They promote better posture & freedom of movement: with a VRC you can change positions, sit up, lean back, stand, lie down, or even walk while you compute.They’re more compact/take up less desk space.They give you more privacy (no one can snoop on your screen).They’re usable outdoors (no laptop glare).They make multi-screen computing fully portable.They provide more work focus & immersion (like “noise-cancelling headphones for your eyes”).This is because VRCs offer incredible benefits over traditional PCs/Laptops: The truth is that most knowledge workers will be computing in VR/AR instead of PCs/Laptops by the end of this decade. When Simula was founded, most people thought that the future of VR/AR was in gaming and entertainment. How was the idea born? And why do you think that a “VR Computer” is a good idea? (Image by Simula VR) We are selling a Tethered-only version for people who just want this functionality. Though our headset is meant primarily for office work/programming, it can also be used in Tethered Mode for gaming (e.g., you can hook it up to a Windows/Linux PC and run SteamVR games). ![]() It offers compute specs comparable to a premium office laptop. This is extremely important for maximum text clarity. It has a higher pixel density (PPD) than any other portable VR headset on the market. It runs a VR distro called “SimulaOS” (or “SOS”), which runs Linux Desktop applications in VR. ![]() We call it a “VR Computer” (VRC) to distinguish it from other gaming headsets on the market, and it will be (AFAIK) the first portable VR headset intended primarily to replace PCs/Laptops for office work (Linux or otherwise). As Microsoft controls the Windows operating system - it is possible the company may never make this functionality directly available to Facebook or Valve.SimulaVR is selling a portable VR headset (the “Simula One”) which is primarily designed to help you work more productively. Microsoft’s own Windows MR software allows for individual apps, but this software only supports Windows-based headsets, which make up just 11% of the PC VR market. This is still relatively clunky, however, and the instability of this workaround means that Facebook classifies the feature as “experimental” in the Rift’s settings. On Microsoft Windows, apps such as Virtual Desktop are limited to displaying physical monitors in VR, and windows are contained within these monitors.įacebook’s Oculus Rift software tries to work around this limitation of the operating system by using a hidden virtual 4K monitor, enabled via collaboration with NVIDIA and AMD. The open Linux model allows xrdesktop to individually manipulate windows without needing a “monitor” model. This new open source VR runtime for Linux uses OpenXR. ![]() The controls can be rebinded using the SteamVR Input Tool.Ĭollabora also offers its own open source implementation of the OpenXR standard - called Monado - which may eventually function as a bridge for Linux to content available from storefronts such as Valve’s Steam. Using the HTC wands or Valve Index controllers the user should be able to grab, push, pull, scale, and pin windows. Xrdesktop supports both the HTC Vive and Valve Index, headsets which have Linux drivers. It works with the two most popular Linux desktop environments, GNOME and KDE. Introducing xrdesktopĬollabora’s xrdesktop is a 3D window management system which allows the user to view and control windows in VR. A similar extension is being developed for Wayland, X11’s main alternative. ![]() It simply prevented the windowing system from handling VR headsets.Ī Vulkan extension was then created to allow VR runtimes such as SteamVR (which was released on Linux in 2017) to render directly to the headset via “direct mode”. This did not, in itself, add VR support to the Linux desktop. In May 2018, X11 added support for the non-desktop property. In January 2018 Linux added a non-desktop property, enabled on the HTC Vive. This means that each eye would be presented half of a monitor screen with no distortion correction or tracking. Before early 2018, the default behavior when a VR headset was connected was to treat it like a regular extra monitor. The most popular Linux windowing system is called X11. It also allows people to modify and extend these components. This allows users to pick and choose which windowing system and desktop environment to use. Unlike Microsoft Windows, Linux is highly modular. Linux is an open source operating system initially developed in the 90’s. Collabora’s xrdesktop, sponsored by Valve, adds full VR support to Linux desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE. ![]()
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