Comment by jknoepfler

Having made a serious attempt at a virtual workspace for development myself, I'll just say: it's ok, but there are a lot of challenges.

To develop, I need an actual fully-featured operating system with a terminal, a full suite of tools and libraries, and an application ecosystem.

To date, proxying all of that through a desktop/laptop to a virtual display or virtual remote desktop is clunky at best. Reading in VR is unpleasant. Typing in VR is unpleasant. Juggling controllers in VR is unpleasant. Wearing a headset for more than an hour or two is gross - you will really need to spend time and effort keeping the bits that touch your face clean. Cords are a hassle and the weird constant slight resistance starts to drive me nuts after awhile. For me there wasn't a hard deal-breaking issue, just a death by a thousand cuts.

Don't get me wrong - you can absolutely do it. For myself, it fell far short of the friction-free space for deep productivity I was after.

Also, again speaking personally, there is no way in hell I'm going to show up to work video meeting as a cartoon avatar (or turn my camera off). So meetings sort of break the whole thing.

Maybe this product will solve a lot of those friction points. I think that would be great, personally, but I'm skeptical.