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It'd be fantastic to have an Oculus-based desktop environment! Imagine not having to drag giant monitors around. Combine it with xmonad and you're golden. I hope this becomes reality soon, at least for development purposes.

Shut up and someone take my money already.

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Xmonad is a way to optimize on 2D spatial scarcity. I don't think Xmonad will exist in any similar implementation in 3D viewing space. It might end up being similar, but I think that depth, being what humans with camera vision are used to, will become a much more dominating organizational pattern.

Drop xmonad, what you want is no-longer the virtual desktops, but the virtual rooms! (As a bonus it has been proved humans memory interact with entering and leaving rooms.) We will be hanging applications on the walls like pictures.

I always thought what you need is instead a kind of body model.

So you have things which are attached to your head, things which follow position relative to your body, and things which follow your absolute position in the world.

Most people would work in body-space, and maybe have several different overlays they switch between for that.

On top of that, you probably need the concept of the private, shared and public objects in all these spaces - you can interact or allow people into a limited view of your 3D environment.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Especially when graphic programming using flow-charts will be implemented.

Everything old is new again! ;)

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