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Can't imagine how strong your neck must be. For me, the weight alone is a deal breaker.
Why not have a battery externally, attached with a long cable?
Balance presumably.
Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
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It’s unlike Apple to be too early with something. Usually it’s the competition and they show how it should really be done. I guess the main problem here is the price point, which will improve over time and with scale.
The Newton team might disagree.
I think the comments are a bit negative in this thread, however, Newton has nothing to do with Apple now. Or the last decade. Or the last 20 years. It's touching on 30+ years post launch now. Pointing at an "early idea" from 1993, is more the exception to the rule.
Products such as the ipod and then the iphone, were as the parent poster describes. Both ipod like devices, and the iphone were successors to other devices already on the market. It was how they were presented, packaged, and tailored that made them special and unique. Yet the launch of these devices are also in the range of two decades ago.
In the tech world, a few years is a long time let alone 20 or 30 years.
I'd say Apple is barely innovative now, and further, their 'early ideas' are long, long, long gone.
This is why it's such a shame that their products aren't as polished as they used to be. They still have a very strong capacity to do this, and I wish they would. It's a great market, and it's what a lot of people want. Take what's already on the market, as Jobs did with the iphone, or the ipod, and make it ... well, very nice to use.
Yet they seem to be stumbling here a bit, which is a shame.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
#63Yes. I spend maybe half of the year (on average) away from home, traveling with my MacBook. I bought the Vision Pro to use as a portable display, and I’ve been extremely happy with it. I work in it about 8 hours per day whenever I’m away from my home office setup, and quite often even when I’m at home. Having an enormous virtual screen is not the only benefit, I also feel that the immersion helps my focus. It’s easie…
How is yor eyesight? Did it change?
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
#64I use them just for playing Doom.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
#65I am spending about three hours a day using my AVP.
Not getting headaches or anything like that.
I don’t have a suitable MacBook or Mac mini so no virtual display.
For development work, I use webterm (webified ghostty) via Safari to connect to servers. Then it is emacs all the way.
It’s a real treat and I can use it anywhere.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
#66Yes. I spend maybe half of the year (on average) away from home, traveling with my MacBook. I bought the Vision Pro to use as a portable display, and I’ve been extremely happy with it. I work in it about 8 hours per day whenever I’m away from my home office setup, and quite often even when I’m at home. Having an enormous virtual screen is not the only benefit, I also feel that the immersion helps my focus. It’s easie…
What will you do when your Vision Pro breaks?
Looks like nobody is working on something that can replace it.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not have a battery externally, attached with a long cable?
Balance presumably.
If __they__ can do it:
https://www.istockphoto.com/nl/foto/indian-little-girls-carr...
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
#68I think of the AVP like Steve Jobs once described: headphones for video [0] I use it a few hours a day, a few times a week exclusively as a virtual display for my macbook. Being able to put a huge virtual monitor anywhere is the killer feature and I don't tend to use it for anything else. It's indispensable on flights where laptop lids can't even fully open. Apple got the interactions just about perfect for AR window…
> overall embarrassment You're right, and it's also why this device is such a non sequitur for Apple. Almost all of their successful products are trendsetting and cool (iPhone, mac, airpods), this is one causes embarrassment and I just don't think it's fixable.
For privacy, at least it looks better than the alternative, the laptop sock:
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Have you tried a Quest 3 for similar purposes? Curious how they compare.
I've tried and it's okay with Virtual desktop but the resolution is like on the uncanny line of fine and not good enough. The quest being much lighter makes it nice though (but you should buy a third party headstrap that doesn't suck)
Virtual Desktop is the only app which makes Quest 3 usable for work. And it is bad thing because it is available only on Win and Mac. Unfortunately, Linux alternatives' video encoding/postprocessing is inferior. Judging by my WiVRn experience. Hopefully that changes
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
#70Yes. I spend maybe half of the year (on average) away from home, traveling with my MacBook. I bought the Vision Pro to use as a portable display, and I’ve been extremely happy with it. I work in it about 8 hours per day whenever I’m away from my home office setup, and quite often even when I’m at home. Having an enormous virtual screen is not the only benefit, I also feel that the immersion helps my focus. It’s easie…
What will you do when your Vision Pro breaks? Looks like nobody is working on something that can replace it.
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