For a larger project requiring the ability to work with my computer in 3D, I developed a 3D terminal emulator. It uses the wonderful alacritty_terminal crate from the Alacritty terminal for VTE parsing and PTY initialization, and it uses wgpu and rend3 for the rendering code. The actual text rendering is done using multichannel SDF rendering, generated lazily at runtime to a texture atlas using the msdfgen crate.
A project like this would've been impossible if not for Rust's friendly library ecosystem and the Alacritty project's efforts to make their core terminal emulator code reusable for other means.
Where's the code? I'm sure everyone interested in VR development could benefit
Thank you for the encouragement! Unfortunately, I'm not able to share the source code just yet, but I do intend to license it under the Apache license as soon as I can. Please refer to this comment for more info: https://programming.dev/comment/2568603