Ask HN: Oculus rift the next big shift in GUI's?

1 pointsRalz13y ago4 comments

With the Oculus Rift dev kits shipping soon I was wondering what the HN community thinks about the possibility of having an OS built entirely around the thing?

I am just dreaming here but imagine the amount of screen real-estate you could have, maybe even a HUD that shows email notifications, IM's and current music track. You could essentially be the Architect from the Matrix, sitting in a room circled by screens :).

I know these ideas aren't new but do you see them becoming a possibility in the near future?

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teamonkey13y ago· 3 in thread

There was an Oculus Rift tech demo at my company recently and although the device is undeniably exciting, it's worrying that nearly everyone who tried it experienced some degree of nausea.

RalzOP13y ago

How recent was this? The reason I ask is that in one of the CES demos they said their old prototype demoed at E3 last year had motion lag due to the color switching lag in the LCD panels they used. Also the nausea may have been experienced because the user was walking around in a game where they don't actually move in real life. Do you think you would experience the same nausea if the simulation was of a desk you sit at with multiple monitors?

teamonkey13y ago

It was about 2 months ago.

mikecane13y ago

Reactions like that also happened in the early days of dedicated all-screen word processors, like the green VDT of Wangs. Had it happen to me too, but then it wears off. It could wear off like that with the OR too.

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