Show HN: Equirect – a Rust VR video player

Category: devtools

Tags: vr, video-player, rust, webgpu, openxr

Score: 5.3/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 7, Documentation: 6, Utility: 4)

Equirect is a VR video player written in Rust using WebGPU for graphics and OpenXR for VR support, notable for being almost entirely generated by Claude AI with human supervision. It's interesting as a case study in AI-assisted development for complex domains like graphics programming and VR integration.

Target audience: vr-developers, graphics-programmers

Repository: https://github.com/greggman/equirect · Rust · MIT

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