Best part of strapping an hmd to my face is being able to lay on my back in bed while I code and follow up on emails and the such
@mauve this is literally my dream, I want to lie down and use the computer, or be able to walk and use the computer
@aynish It's pretty easy with the rokid and a samsung dex + a bt keyboard. I'm hoping a pinephone pro will also work well. Thogh right now I'm mostly using it with my steam deck. Actually that's what I'm doing right now! :P Easier to have the cat cuddle up by my legs this way.
@mauve that's real neat! yeah, I dream of using an mnt pocket, with some hmd. though rn even plugging it in to my laptop would be okay. i don't have dex/pine phone stuff haha
@aynish Rokid also sells a thing called the "Rokid Station" which is a sort of Android TV in a controller form factor which might also be appealing. It's kinda like a phone without a screen and just a controller built in. But yeah anything with usb-c video output should work, or hdmi if you get the adaptor.
@mauve that's neat, I didn't know about that!
I'm too Linux pilled for that to fit my use case. though dropping into termux could work? 🤔
@aynish Yeah... hence why I've been looking at the pinephone. Also why I paid a person to make drivers for #Monado #OpenXR for the rokid so thay I can use @stardustxr as my desktop window manager
@mauve woah I didn't know about @stardustxr that seems really cool 👀
having my notes scattered around my desktop seems delightful
yeah... Im still keeping my eyes out for pinephone, but everyone who's used one says it's not good. building a custom case and making sure eink works on it would be a lot of work and I'm not experienced at that
@aynish @stardustxr Yeah I don't think the pinephone is yet a good enough substitiute for an Android phone, but I'm hoping it'll work well as an ARM Linux compute puck which I can use to drive my VR desktop on the go. Having access to data seems particularly useful since I won't need a hotspot.
@mauve yeah having data is important, whole point is to be mobile
I'm hoping the mobile sim thing on the mnt pocket is viable, I'm really hanging out for this working hahaha
I think I'll get the xreal air next month to trial hmds generally with my laptop
@aynish I think any usbc to hdmi splitter with power input should work but they also sell their own here: https://www.xreal.com/shop/xreal-adapter.html
personally I prefer devices with native usb c video output since I don't like having to pack and unpack more cables :P
@mauve yeah this seems super annoying lol, gonna have to think about options some more hmmm 🤔
@aynish Do let me know if you find a good setup! :O
@mauve wait so stardust works on your rokid? like 3d space and all? :o
@aynish I haven't had a chance to try it yet since I'm having linker errors compiling monado :P But the dev that did the work got it working so 3dof tracking should work. I got 2d rendering working in the past from prebuilt binaries
@mauve oh really? that's good to know! is it like a splitter or something?