This is a post I am writing inside WordPress (Jetpack) mobile app running solely on Oculus Quest 3, while my wife is cooking 1 meter from me and I’m not distracted at all.
This requires no connection to the Internet, no external PC nor any other stuff like that. Just your oculus, Bluetooth keyboard and some setup beforehand.
It is working out quite ok!
Why?
You won’t always can have a space and place to concentrate, and not every environment is perfect for writing. This allows you to drop into a mountain lodge, a forest cabin or a mountaintop on a whim. I started this post deep in the forest, but I am continuing on a mountaintop. I would love to claim I’m on a horse but I haven’t figured that out yet.
It’s like a writing retreat or your own writing lodge you can easily join on a whim.
Setup
Jetpack App
Oculus store does not have the Jetpack App in there (something I would like to change), so you have to sideload apps.
See my other post – sideloading APK and Aurora store on Oculus Quest 3.
Once you have Aurora store, just install WordPress or Jetpack app. It will open in a small window that you can resize to be as big as you want.
Other customizations
I had to install a special app to support the Colemak layout I use on my keybord. You can see how to do that here.
Assorted points
- The circles you see dancing around are the hand tracking gestures. In order for the hand tracking to work to show up on my keyboard, the hand tracking has to be on, but it will also attempt to track my hand gestures.
- Sometimes keyboard refuses to show up to be tracked
- Because the apps are side-loaded they do not minimize properly. The Jetpack app keeps reloading whenever I reopen it, so its better to have a browser to the side and don’t open other apps while you are writing.
Here is a short video of me typing this post. You can probably see that I have initial trouble of finding keyboard alignment because this time, the tracked keyboard refused to show. In any case:
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