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@amca@aus.social

Insanely curious, pro-science skeptic.

A fan of (especially esoteric) computing and programming history and art.

he/him. Queer. Neurodivergent. Swears.

Living on the land of the Wiradjuri people.

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June 22, 2022
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So I'm listening to the SGU, and they are saying how VR can be good for exercise, which made me think that maybe I ought to get VR to make exercising inside during the winter easier. (I find it very hard to motivate myself to use my exercise bike, even though I have it for that purpose.) Then I thought about the expense of VR and how I'd probably want to play games that I create on it, and so that made me think of the difficulties of that. I was also concerned that I could only really be moving my arms around, rather than my legs, which I felt was a problem. Eventually it occured to me that what I could do is write a game for Android, and have my walking speed be used to navigate around a virtual world. That way, unlike VR, I could do it outside as well as inside. I was then pondering about the sort of games to write for it, and I hit upon the idea of having a 3d programming language on the Android that uses my walking to navigate around the 3d space to code in the 3d language to program my game in.

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