Simula

Linux VR Desktop (by SimulaVR)

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Simula reviews and mentions

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  • Mark Zuckerberg says Quest 3 'is the better product, period'
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024
    He's _probably_ right that for the majority of people, the Quest would be better.

    Towards the end, when he starts talking about the open vs closed model, I find it pretty depressing that meta is the "open" model in this case. I'm pretty sure you still require a Meta account to use the headset. Not sure I consider that "open".

    I would love to have a headset that was running Simula (or something similar). I tried Simula with a Valve Index and the resolution was just too low for me. But I could definitely feel like it was "the future".

    I travel a lot now and work on one laptop screen. Having a small(ish) headset that I could travel with and then have a VR workspace instead of a single laptop monitor has the potential to be game changing (maybe).

    [0] https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

  • SimulaVR $1.2M short of the project's total cost
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Sep 2023
    >before anyone else did

    Not disputing your claim per se, but Google had a project called Daydream back at least as early as 2017 (though seems earlier) and rolled that into Area 120 projects. They canned it at some point in 2021 I believe.

    Whereas SimulaVR seems to have started working on this in 2018 per their YC app (but perhaps earlier?) https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/wiki/YCW19-Application

  • Simula – Linux VR Desktop
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jun 2023
  • 3D operating system
    1 project | /r/osdev | 4 Jun 2023
    That's not rly an os, it's just a different gui, you could probably reuse linux and build it on top of that For example, there's a VR window manager for linux called Simula
  • Seeking info about nreal air usb interfaces
    3 projects | /r/nreal | 25 Apr 2023
    That's the dream! I really want to see if I can get it working with a VR compatible desktop env like https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula; but failing that, just getting the second display surface to be floating instead of fixed would be a huge boon!
  • VR for office work - a viable strategy?
    2 projects | /r/archlinux | 20 Dec 2022
    That's a clever way of doing it. =) I have considered xrdesktop, Immersed and Simula (SimulaVR's window manager without their headset) as well. Seemingly, Immersed can only create virtual monitors and not separate windows for each application, which leaves xrdesktop and Simula the better options.
  • Godot Desktop Environment
    2 projects | /r/godot | 14 Dec 2022
    You might be interested in looking at SimulaVR - it's a VR desktop built with godot (and haskell), but it uses, iirc, wlroots to handle windows and grab their surfaces to display as textures in godot.
  • Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2022
    So, you might be interested in https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula . There have been a few examples of VR windows managers on Linux which don’t require an entire OS rewrite.

    Is that the solution Meta will go w/ almost certainly not. But replacing a WM for a different “view” of your OS is a pretty common thing on Linux. (For some distros like Arch, replace isn’t the right word. You have to install whichever one you’d like from the beginning)

  • Mentor-ship
    2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 2 Oct 2022
  • XR2 Processor for purchase
    2 projects | /r/virtualreality | 25 Sep 2022
    The Simula One is a Linux-based, standalone VR headset with compute specs that are comparable to premium laptops (x86 architecture) as well as very high pixel density (35.5 PPD). The software its built over is open-source (https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula), and its hardware is being built in the open (though not entirely open-source since it would violate many of our NDAs, etc).
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SimulaVR/Simula is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of Simula is Haskell.

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