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Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought (nymag.com)
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Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought::Is the Vision Pro for watching movies? Working? Being alone? Collaborating? Nobody knows, really, writes John Herrman.

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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I had a go on a VR helmet and thought it was kind of fun, but at the moment the options seem to be an affordable one that's infested with Facebook nonsense, or the Valve/Apple ones which are presumably less intrusive but cost a fortune. So I'm fine to just do without until someone figures out how to do it in a cheap, open-source kind of way, like the raspberry pi of VR helmets.

That might not even be possible, but in that case I'm also fine to just do without TBH.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Im really not impressed with the whole concept. Yeah it’s probably a necessary step towards an actually simulated reality but wearing a clunky headgear while running into my living room walls is just not appealing at all to me.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    It strikes me as a mostly non-technical problem. As a method of interfacing with computers/games it just doesn’t offer anything that useful and runs into a lot of practical problems that won’t magically get better with faster processors or smarter software.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I need the tech to get way further before I seriously consider it. Give me proper AR in glasses that aren't significantly larger than the ones on my face right now and I'll be listening intently.

    On the VR front I still also haven't found productive uses, I just don't need it for work and while I did think some of the games were fun not enough to justify getting one when I can already game on Xbox or PC...

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