GazeDesk: A Calm VR Workspace With Gaze-Pinned Panels, a Timer and Task Cards

GazeDesk is a calm workspace you use inside a VR headset. The desk is a set of panels. You look at a panel to pin it, and that panel stays in place while you work.

This post explains what GazeDesk is, how it works and who it suits. It is coming soon on aeternusvita.io. You can get notified from the product page when it is ready.

What GazeDesk is

GazeDesk is a calm workspace for a VR headset. The brief gives the one-line pitch as "A calm VR workspace with gaze-pinned panels, a timer and task cards." The subtitle is "Pin panels with your gaze".

The Play copy describes it in a few lines: "GazeDesk is a calm workspace for a VR headset. The desk is a set of panels. You look at a panel to pin it, and that panel stays in place while you work."

The next lines add the rest: "Task cards sit with the panels. A timer runs for the block you are in. Soft chimes mark the time, and a focus loop of music plays under them. The space around the desk stays calm for the length of the block."

GazeDesk comes from aeternusvita.io. The factory category is apps and the Chrome Web Store category is Workflow & Planning.

In every locale the features are listed the same way:

• Panels you pin with your gaze
• Task cards that sit with the panels
• A timer for the block of work
• Soft chimes that mark the time
• A focus music loop under the chimes
• A calm workspace in a VR headset

That is the scope as described. You set the panels, start the timer and work through the cards.

How the desk works

The loop is described in one paragraph: "You use GazeDesk in a VR headset. Pin the panels where you want them, start the timer, and move through the task cards in front of you. The chimes and the music stay with that block until you end it."

Three steps: pin the panels, start the timer, move through the cards. The closing line says the same thing from the maker: "Set the panels with your gaze, start the timer, and stay with the cards."

Panels you pin with your gaze

The desk is a set of panels. You look at a panel to pin it and that panel stays in place while you work. The instruction in the copy is to "Pin the panels where you want them".

In the headset you place panels by looking at them. The listing names gaze as the pin action and does not describe a separate controller or hand-tracking placement for the VR build. Once pinned, a panel holds its position for the work you are doing. You can set more than one panel and build the desk shape that suits the block.

This is the part that gives GazeDesk its name. The desk follows where you look to set it, then holds that arrangement while you stay with the cards.

The timer, the chimes and the focus loop

A timer runs for the block you are in. That line appears word for word in the Play copy.

You start the timer at the beginning of the block. From then the audio stays with that block: "Soft chimes mark the time, and a focus loop of music plays under them" and "The chimes and the music stay with that block until you end it."

They are two separate features in the list — "Soft chimes that mark the time" and "A focus music loop under the chimes" — that work together for the length of the block. The timer defines the block. The chimes mark time passing. The music sits underneath as a steady loop.

The listing does not name custom lengths, intervals or volume options. It describes a timer for the block, chimes that mark the time and a loop that plays under them.

Task cards that sit with the panels

Task cards sit with the panels. They sit in front of you, alongside the panels you have pinned.

The copy says to "move through the task cards in front of you" and, in the Chrome edition, to "step through your task cards as you finish them". You work through them in order during the block.

The brief and the Play copy do not describe card creation, import, sharing or collaboration. They describe cards that sit with the panels and that you step through as you finish them. The cards and the panels share the same calm space for the length of the block.

On the web and in Chrome: how you control it

The brief lists the platforms as Web, Chrome extension and steam-frame. The target is steam-frame with a webxr template and a kit-three web build. The web build is hosted and the desktop smoke test is marked as pass.

The Chrome Web Store edition explains the same idea outside the headset: "GazeDesk is a quiet focus workspace from aeternusvita.io that runs offline in its own Chrome tab."

The controls for that tab are specific: "Sit at a calm 3D desk, start a timed block of work and step through your task cards as you finish them. The centre ring works as your pointer: drag to look, then click (or press F) to act. Press Enter to begin a block."

The centre ring is your pointer. You drag to look, then click or press F to act. You press Enter to begin a block.

Privacy for that edition is stated plainly: "Privacy: no accounts, ads or analytics. Your progress stays in local browser storage." The summary line repeats the shape: "A calm 3D focus room with a work-block timer and task cards. Runs offline in its own Chrome tab."

So you have two ways to use the same desk. In a VR headset you pin panels with your gaze, start the timer and work through the cards. In a Chrome tab you sit at a calm 3D desk, use the centre ring to look and act, and start a timed block the same way.

Who it suits

The brief does not name a narrow audience. The Chrome Web Store category is Workflow & Planning and the factory category is apps. That points to anyone who wants a quiet place to work through a set of tasks.

It suits you if you want a workspace that stays still once set. You pin the panels where you want them and they stay in place while you work.

It suits you if you like to work in timed blocks. A timer runs for the block, chimes mark the time and a loop plays under them.

It suits you if you want task cards alongside the workspace rather than in a separate app. The cards sit with the panels in front of you for the length of the block.

It suits you if you want to try it without a headset. The Chrome tab edition runs offline in its own tab with progress kept in local storage and no accounts, ads or analytics.

GazeDesk is a workspace aid described in practical terms — panels, cards, a timer, chimes and a music loop. No health benefit is stated as a medical claim in the listing.

Coming soon

GazeDesk is coming soon on aeternusvita.io. The product page is where you can get notified when it is ready. Visit GazeDesk and use the notify option there.

There is no price, release date, rating or review to quote because nothing has been submitted or released. The brief lists release date as not decided, ratings and reviews as none, and price as not final. The web build is hosted with a smoke test marked as pass, the Chrome Web Store listing is queued at #07, and the HTML5 zip for itch.io is packaged and awaiting an account.

To check the scope, use the listing as your guide. Panels you pin with your gaze. Task cards that sit with the panels. A timer for the block of work. Soft chimes that mark the time. A focus music loop under the chimes. A calm workspace in a VR headset, and a quiet 3D desk that runs offline in its own Chrome tab. Made by aeternusvita.io, coming soon.