VR use for future programmers & teams
I mentioned how I think in the future, programmers will meet in VR, and in their piece, build software components out of standardized building blocks --- Bricks, if you will.
They will be selected from a vast store of Bricks; and these Bricks will be hooked together in various ways to produce a "House" --- a completed SW function made from Bricks.
These 'Houses" --- each made by a dev --- would create a 'Village' when the devs get together to define the plumbing, roads, and helipad ports. The 'Village' would do some complex Software function as desired by an end user. With enough Villages, you get Neighborhoods, and, eventually, Cities.
The VR part is only to give a little more concreteness to the Bricks & Houses.
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This is getting there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DzuVl4THY about a minute
https://www.ti.com/tool/MSP-ZERO-CODE-STUDIO?hqs=epd-msp-procbr-mspm0_small-pr-sw-ew25-wwe
Yes, there have been environments like this for decades; it's how LabView and GNU Radio do it. This is the first free tool that does it for small embedded processors, as far as I know.
This is *not* what embedded people are used to; so I wonder how much uptake it'll get. I don't know.
But it's worth a try!
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Scratch, which is a similar coding environment. There's a Scratch extension that lets you control the hardware of a Raspberry Pi.
codeSpark. It's another visual programming environment. uses it to create little movies of animated characters interacting.
Both of those two things lack the interactive element.
Those are missing the VR element. In Minecraft, there's this thing called red stone which simulates simple electronics. So, you have a bunch of people working in a 3D world laying down bricks in order to build little mechanisms. Here's an insane example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n9scPr11sek