Can I replace my development PC displays with a VR headset (part-time) yet? [closed] - ide

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I'm looking for a VR solution (presumably software for an Oculus or Vive device) that presents 2 to 4 high-resolution development displays. The main requirement is that it provides all the functionality a software developer needs for part-time use.
Although I welcome you to include your favorite solution and note its benefits, as StackOverflow is not for product comparison any solution will answer my question.
It's OK if this isn't suitable for full work-week use, such as concerns about eyestrain from 8 hours of straight use (although severe eyestrain after short use would make it unusable), but it's not OK if I lose key currently-standard functionality commonly used by most developers, such as ability to run multiple displays and snap an IDE to fill one and a browser to fill another, ability to have a high resolution or high virtual resolution, poor text quality, or ability to use a debugger.
I'd prefer one that I can use with a laptop as a mobile solution outside (yes, I know, the headset ruins the beach), but it isn't required.
Does something like that exist?

Check out Virtual Desktop. The resolution of the Rift & Vive is still a bit low to use this for coding & development but it's got a lot of potential!

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API for a real life like 3D avatar that could read given text. Ulta HAL for Mac/Linux? [closed]

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I am looking to build a voice based interactive automation system. To make the experience more realistic I am looking for 3D avatars that could read a given text(response) in real time.
The closest I found something on the net is Ultra HAL for windows (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEtgfXbpCqI). I need something similar, expressive, programmable through an API and preferable for a MAC or Linux. TTS is not that mandatory.
Thanks for the help.
Sadly there is nothing comparable to the (15 year old) Haptek avatar technology (the underlying tech Ultra HAL uses). Even on the Windows platform. We use Haptek for Cassandra for all the reasons you want such a package. To my knowledge nothing else supports such high quality, 3D, emotively & verbally autonomous characters. Note: In-game 3D avatars are all carefully scripted and acted scenes and not actually interactive.
I would like to extend the question/request to the Android platform. Many developers could make great use of that. Cassandra certainly would.

Creating a ZigBee network [closed]

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For a school project our client wants us to create a ZigBee network either using the Texas instruments cc2531 or a XBee. We've got a CC2531 with some sensors from Cleode. In their program, named cleobee, everything works fine. The connection is automatically made, and we don't have to do anything else than turn on the sensors for the connection to be made.
Now we want to use the CC2531 to connect with the sensors without using the Cleode program. Is there a simple way to set up a network? Is there an API we can use? We've found zTool in which we can monitor the usage of the cc2531, but we don't really know what else we can do with it.
Also, we would like to connect an Olimex mod-zigbee-pir sensor with it. Can we do this in the same manner as with the other sensors?
Is there any software available that let's us do this?
If you donot want to use the Cleode program than you can implement the same thing yourself by making changes in the API provided by TI.
Ti has provided all the APIs and you can refer it in the Documents that comes along with Z-stack.
Also sample and Generic programs for zigbee networks are provided which you can modify it according to your requirement.

Free UML Drawing Tools [closed]

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What are the best free uml drawing tools?
All the ones I have found require membership payments and only offer limited functionality based to public users on a trial basis...rubbish!
For my (very simple) needs I used ArgoUML. I'm not an expert about, but I found it enough easy to use. It's open source and, on the web page, you can find a good user guide.
Have a look at StarUML ( http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/ )
It's free, open source, and incredibly fully featured.
For a full list, check out the ones marked as Open Source here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unified_Modeling_Language_tools
But I'd really recommend StarUML!
For my first two software engineering courses, I used the stand alone version of UMLet, but it is just for diagrams. It exports to standard graphics, or pdf. They also have an eclipse plugin version, but I never used it.
For a no frill drawing tool, I find Google Docs (drawings) pretty good. Note that printing works better under Mozilla than Chrome, strangely enough. In Chrome, I cannot get dashed lines to print.
Try UMLet. Supports Eclipse IDE.

What open source software can I use to develop interior design software? [closed]

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I need to develop an interior designing software :)
Much like a virtual room designing software.
There will be pre-designed 3D objects and they can dragged on to the room. You can change the room size etc... Much like a conventional home designing software :) After the room is designed i should be able to to make the user walk through it...
I know that is a lot of requirements...
But are there any open source IDE's/API's/Engines that can i use to achieve similar results?
What you need to use depends on the level of realism you want to achieve.
For a simple(ish) start, try Google Sketchup - there is a vast array of samples online: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/
For something more powerful (and complicated to use), try Blender
You'll then need to use an API to render and allow user movement - for this, take a look at JMonkeyEngine
FYI - There is a more complete list of modeling apps on the jMonkeyEngine site.
It's not really programming related, but look at Google SketchUp. It also has a powerful SDK which you can use.
For SDK search for '3d scenegraph' in google. Some good ones are Ogre3d, Irrlicht and OpenSceneGraph. If you are planning on a web based solution you can look at several WebGL based scenegraphs, SceneJS and Google O3D are easy to get started with.

Dynamic Collapsable Flow Chart Online [closed]

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Been looking through a number of other related posts relating to flowchart software.
I have been asked to put together a document outlining some of the typical problems our users encounter with our software product.
What I would like to do, is create an interactive/online flowchart that lets users choose from 4-5 overall headings on whats wrong. Then for this to dynamically expand more choices on pinpointing the problem, and so on and so on, until they can get a resolution to their problem.
The key thing that I have not been able to find in some of the flowchart software out there, is having the click + expand element.
- I dont want all options to appear to the end-user in a huge flow chart as it will distract away from their specific issue.
- I want them to be able to click away and go down a specific avenue that will end up giving them some good things to try, based on their decisions/clicks.
I was originally thinking of perhaps putting something in Flex or Silverlight (ideally someone would have a template out there) but am now thinking of taking advantage of 3rd party (ideally free) software.
This will need to be hosted in a browser.
Any ideas?
Check out FreeMind. It's mind mapping software, so not necessarily a flowcharting tool, but you can use it for what you describe.