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The weight is important but it's only a part of what's wrong with those kind of devices. Wearing something that hides their face is something that people do at Carnival or because they must. It's antisocial. It creates a barrier. It isolates from other people. There is no chance it will become something people will do together with other people not wearing the same device.
> Wearing something that hides their face is something that people do at Carnival or because they must. It's antisocial. It creates a barrier. It isolates from other people. When I ski, I often raise my goggles to my forehead when I'm in the lift line, unless it's extremely bright or extremely cold. Specifically, because of the "antisocial, barrier, isolates" aspect of blocking my face. I'm interested in the concept…
Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
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A helmet has another downside: a fair number of people care about having their hairs styled and a helmet destroys that work.
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Two out of the three links in this post are from less than a week ago and paint a much less optimistic picture. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467606
That is very depressing. Can anyone make something up that will cheer me up? An LLM hallucination would do just fine.
"Apple is now focused on its rival to Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2027, and a “display-equipped AR/XR smart glasses device powered by optical waveguides” in 2029, Kuo says."
seems like basically Vision Pro is going to become Vision XR. All roads lead to Rome.
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>but I instead bought USB C display glasses How did you use these? Did you like them?
Not the OP but I use mine a lot too. I use them with Samsung DeX and a foldable keyboard. Means I functionally have a desktop computer with me all the time. It's pretty amazing.
How are they for lots of text? Do your eyes fatigue at all?
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#224I have been waiting for a vision pro 2 for 2 years ...