#vr posts — Ben Crowder

Links #30

Ben Crowder — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 12:00:00 GMT

An Open Plan — I love the idea of a plan page, so there’ll probably be one on here soon
John Carmack’s .plan files — an early incarnation of a plan page
ozziegooen on working in virtual reality — I seriously can’t wait to be able to do most of my day job in VR, honestly (it seems more flexible, and I think it would also open up some interesting options to relieve neck and back pain)
Scorpion-style gaming chair — if someone makes a (much) cheaper version of this, I’d be all over that
Matt Webb on innovation in office furniture — where I got the above two links, also has other good stuff

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Links #13

Ben Crowder — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Hundred Rabbits on their tools ecosystem — several of their philosophies here appeal a lot to me, and I love how constraints (electricity, etc. in their case) lead to interesting ways to solve problems
Brandur on small, sharp software tools — how to avoid getting cut on all the extra complexity (from using many small tools together)
Carolyn Barber in Scientific American on how Covid can wreck your heart even if you haven’t had any symptoms — a bit terrifying if I’m honest, but obviously still important to be aware of
Doug Belshaw with a quote from Joseph Tainter on the Ik of Uganda — the societal differences are striking (it’s basically everyone for themselves, starting at the ripe old age of three years old)
Ratko Jagodic on his VR research using the forearm for both input and display — promising and exciting

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I’m going to try batching links into groups of five from now on, since solitary links often feel a l...

Ben Crowder — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 12:00:00 GMT

I’m going to try batching links into groups of five from now on, since solitary links often feel a little too insubstantial for a post. Links often won’t be related.

Links #1:

Nadia Eghbal’s notes — rough, chronological, posted monthly, I’m intrigued by the format
Tom Critchlow’s wiki — digital garden, topic-based, also intriguing
Jared Pereira’s personal website chats — people talking about how they made their sites
Katherine Ye’s notation repo — interesting thoughts on notation of various kinds
Mozilla Hubs — small-scale social VR, pretty cool

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By way of the Glue chat comic (interesting ideas, by the way), I came across John Palmer’s excellent...

Ben Crowder — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT

By way of the Glue chat comic (interesting ideas, by the way), I came across John Palmer’s excellent posts on spatial interfaces and spatial software. Mmm. As a productivity nerd and a hobbyist toolmaker (there are probably ten or so personal tools I’ve been using over the past several years that I’ve never blogged about, but that’ll change soon), I’m very, very interested in these kinds of ideas. Particularly in using 3D interfaces for productivity. I’ve thought a bit about doing that in VR, but I hadn’t really considered building tools in 3D even outside of VR.

No concrete ideas yet, just little threads leading off to various areas that I’m interested in exploring (todo lists, website/blog engines, writing/outlining tools, etc.).

At this point the plan is to use Three.js for prototyping some ideas to see if it’s viable. My initial sense is that for the kinds of tools I’m interested in, I’ll probably need a good way to render/edit text from within Three.js, and it looks like rendering to a canvas and then using the canvas as a texture will work. Anyway, more to come.

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