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by steakfest » Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:53 pm
I know I shouldn't resurrect an old thread, but wanted to add something to this discussion.
I was also thinking about this capability and I even had an idea on how one might make it really useful. I think instead of rendering a virtual display that you pan around, we should consider just taking the head tracking data and feeding that into a system that supports multiple desktops. For instance, old school window managers that I used to use on Xwindows like FVWM, let you create a grid of multiple desktops. It would be cool to have that grid and be able to switch from one desktop to the other by just turning your head to the side.
It's not the typical, gradual approach that you get with flight sims and other sorts of games, but I think that it just might actually be even more useful, since you're not going to be doing things like trying to render your screen in some virutal 3d space.
Then you could do other cool things like.. if you're grab the titlebar of a window and turn your head, the window "comes with" to the new desktop, etc.
I could see myself using something like this for sure.
Other benefit.. I find that when I'm using the trackir, my posture is better, since it kinda has to be, or the image is all over the place. This would force me to have better posture while I'm using the computer.