💡 Big idea time: We're already seeing the grand success of Compose for Android and Desktop, at making UI development a pleasurable (and portable) experience again. Soon, we're likely to see :compose-multiplatform: Compose Multiplatform impact iOS and Web development more fully too. It's also been demonstrated that Compose runtime can be applied to other diverse use cases e.g. terminal applications. So; thinking about near-future trends and wondering how the Kotlin/Compose Ecosystem can establish itself even further, how about emitting 3D scenes for ✨ m*etaverse*✨applications? I would love to be able to build 3D VR/AR clients to my full-stack applications, as 'yet another KMP target', using familiar Compose-style code to declare and manipulate 3D world objects. I think in a few years this is going to be an important space for tooling; with requirements outside of what Unity etc. serve today: The needs of VR/AR productivity Apps aren't going to be quite the same as for games. In early practical terms; could we take the 3D scenegraph API of, say, the Godot engine, which has both Kotlin bindings and VR/AR capabilities, and use the Compose runtime to continually (re)compose a scene graph for display. For a metaverse UI toolkit you'd probably want to support 2D interface panels floating in space as well; so to be able to in-line regular 'material Compose' elements with this graph would be ideal too. I can't be the first to have thought of this - does anyone know if such efforts are in the works? Or anyone keen to have a dabble at a PoC?

I always wanted to work on a compose version of LibGui (a popular UI library for minecraft modding over fabricmc) Though, don’t know enough of how compose toolchain work to pull this off myself 😞

Are you talking about things like this: https://twitter.com/JPeredaDnr/status/1017843778697269250 I’d find that super interesting and probably more relevant in the near future.

Yes @Michael Paus, that video is close to the 'state of the art' for AR today, but it's also baby steps compared to what's coming. Once hardware catches up with concepts - and it's doing so fast - 5 years? I think we'll see lightweight headsets that are easy to pop on/off throughout our day. For example, showing a complete 'Banking App' as virtual table-top objects, perhaps even while you eat breakfast(!), with grabble sliders, 'physical' dragging of money between accounts etc. - just don't knock over the real coffee cup(!) I think it's one of those things that seems of uncertain value given how invested we currently are in 2D interfaces, but that once apps really capitalize on a more visceral, high-fidelity 3D experience, the choice will seem obvious.