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by aaronwidd 3647 days ago
It sounds like there's more than a few people working on this idea now.

I just feel like it's a little early to be expecting users to go about multitasking like a desktop when we're still at a point in the evolution of VR tech where prolonged sessions of VR HMD use is not common behavior. Even getting users to put the headset back on after stepping away, is still a challenge. Not to mention the difficulties of reading text in VR among other issues.

That's not to say there isn't a use case for a multitask desktop in VR, it's just that this is a problem to be solved in the future. In the present, we simply need software that gives users a good reason to put the headset back on again after the novelty wears off