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Also, as an aside, I would really like to have six monitors, or 12 even.

But as a practical matter, adding more than 3-4 monitor arms to a physical desk becomes difficult.

So if your startup happens to sell a-grav monitors that can just float in space above my desk, and be re-arranged by waving my hands at them, hit me up in my DMs!



Working in VR often, I’ve realize dI don’t want virtual monitors at all. I want virtual app windows.


Yeah. I think the shape of what that looks like is still TBD, but I think you are right.

I don't yet know personally what I want it to look like (and reserve the right to change my mind many times over the next few years) but there is no reason to stick to the conventional paradigm of "monitors" when in theory you could just let every window or widget float in space, independently or in sets.

Lots of stuff yet to be innovated!


I literally wrote a post above saying this.

Allegedly some of the VR desktop environments support app windows although the one which looked most promising is Quest-only.

I find it baffling that MSFT cannot figure out how to give arbitrary apps their own window in WMR and have to be written specifically to do that. Also: How is their virtual desktop app so bad compared to even the free Desktop+ on Steam?




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