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Safespaces: An open source 3D / Virtual Reality Desktop

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A brief demonstration of Safespaces, an open-source 3D and virtual reality desktop environment built on the Arcan display server.

This is a short glimpse into Safespaces, A 3D/VR Desktop as part of the Arcan (arcan-fe.com) project. You can read more about it in the article at arcan-fe.com/2018/03/29/safespaces-an-open-source-vr-desktop… and at the github page at github.com/letoram/safespaces The fittingly melancholic tune is 'den indre kilde' by Kjell Nordbø (R.I.P)

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What people say. Recommended as an interesting example of a 3D virtual reality desktop environment for Linux.

bhattisatishon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Revisiting the Arcan Project”

Very interesting project. The presentation01 (though from 2015) gives an interesting overview of the two projects. The youtube channel2 has some exciting 3 videos. And I really like his argument for Server Side Decorations4 Another project to keep an eye out for is Simula5 0 link 1 link 2 link 3 link to this video 4 link 5 link
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crazylogladon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Looking Glass, a revolutionary window manager revealed in 2006”

I agree that the looking glass style 3D is fun and gimicky and hard to see added benefit. At the same time, speaking from personal experience - 3D in VR can give a much stronger sense of overview of many datasources etc. while at the same time can reduce semantic noise. I get quite a few productive hours out of a successor to this: link to this video
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KronisLVon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip”

…sical ones, nor virtual ones - despite it having worked previously in the other program. For a little bit, it was a really cool mode of working, but sadly I only got glimpses of it and would need more capable hardware like AVP for that in the first place (Quest 2 very much had its limitations). Also, this was a pretty cool idea, even if a novelty: link to this video…
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