Aardvark

Aardvark is amazing, and has amazing potential. I recommend trying it out if you want to see the future of VR. I'm really hoping for more updates. If the desktop windows could be interacted with, I would already be running Aardvark in every session. Less than a minute after entering SteamVR Home I had an array (theoretically) usable gadgets spread out around my Home environment, like desktop windows, a calculator, a Spotify interface embodied in a 3D boombox, and a whiteboard with colorful markers. Aardvark realizes some of the potential that SteamVR currently wastes on largely static furniture. The wheels came off a bit after a while. In one session, the tiny yellow ball used to tap controls got stuck on the scrollbar of the Spotify login window, and I wasn't able to touch any other gadgets until I had restarted SteamVR. After my first session, my desktop windows now spawn flat on the floor (even after restarting SteamVR), facing down, and the Delete gun can't attach to them. Some apps just seem to disappear when dragged out of the toolbar, and never actually load. I'm still not sure what Pluto is... I think the toolbar needs a snap-back distance. Grabbing apps from it is already a little fussy, and I always wind up spawning a bunch of items I didn't intend to spawn, right on top of the toolbar, which is hard to clean up. Limiting the toolbar to grabs, rather than grabs or laser-grabs might also help stop me from littering apps all over the place. I know it's meant to be a platform for other developers to build on, and not a monolithic gadget in its own right, but I think getting some of the built-in apps to a useful state would help get the attention of other developers.

"Aardvark" is a pointless, abandoned application that lets you share VR "Gadgets" that you're supposed to shove into/over other VR apps... user counts show nobody wanted it, which is probably why the developers abandoned it. This has no value at all for content creators or anyone else, and the developers haven't updated the Steam repo in over 4 years. It's just pollution cluttering the Steam store.