RiftSketch: Live coding in VR with the Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript and Three.js
Why Hacker News recommends it
Repeatedly cited as an inspiring demo of what programming in VR could look like, which led some commenters to buy headsets.
What it is
Brian Peiris demonstrates RiftSketch, a web app where you write JavaScript with Three.js while wearing an Oculus Rift and watch the world around you change live. It runs on Firefox builds with WebVR.
Recommended by 5 HN commenters across 6 different months, 2014 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec mmanfrin · 2018-01 · on “Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100”
I think the less cynical answer is that HTC often has good ideas for physical devices but then often fails to follow through and iterate well. They're also just struggling as a company in general. But damn, so I 1000% agree with being bummed about it not being the hackers headset. I preordered the Vive because of a VR video of a guy programming the environment he was in at the moment: [this video] I would love to use a VR IDE some day.
Strong rec moron4hire · 2020-07 · on “Holographic optics for thin and lightweight virtual reality”
Part 2: That was right about when Google Cardboard hit. That was 2014? I saw it during a Google I/O livestream and just so happened to have a few lenses left over from some still-photography experiments involving lasers and... never mind, another thing that went nowhere, I just had some lenses around. I quit watching the Google I/O stream and immediately hacked together a new cardboard box viewer with the lenses. Saw Versailles, which I have never been to, but I have been to Linderhof Palace in Bavaria, which is modelled after Versailles. Saw the Galapagos, where my wife and I had just spent our honeymoon about a year or so before. I immediately saw the experience was closer on the spectrum
Recommends digi_owl · 2014-12 · on “My Adventures with “4K” 2160p and Linux”
> Basically, I won't be satisfied until I get the holodeck... or a neural jack. How about a Rift work space? [this video]
Recommends corysama · 2015-01 · on “Show HN: Primrose – a text editor that runs in a WebGL texture”
Yep. To glimpse the potential for this, people should check out Peiris's demo vid: [this video] If anyone is interested in working on something like this, there's a very small community germinating in [LINK]
Recommends jfoster · 2015-06 · on “Oculus Rift”
It doesn't (yet) seem particularly comfortable, but this was an impressive demo of someone coding their environment in the Rift. [this video]
Recommends mmanfrin · 2016-11 · on “Wind Waker Graphics Analysis”
Does anyone know of any other threejs talk/walkthrough posts? I love watching the development of things with it, like this video: [this video]
Cites noir_lord · 2015-12 · on “How will you be programming in a decade?”
What I want (and I suspect we'll have due to gaming) is super high resolution Oculus, imagine programming in an environment where your screens can be tiled onto a sphere and moved and re-ordered arbitrarily. Could do something very interesting with that :). [this video] Imagine what we could do in 10 years with ^ if the technology takes off this time.