Has to be AVP?
A close friend works 6-8 hours a day,almost every day, on the quest 3
It's really not for me and most others probably but he swears by it
Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
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#92I have seen on Reddit, somebody said that AVP is like buying the nicest house in the middle of the desert.
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Sunglasses do seem to be taking the piss more than other items. An expensive pair of leather shoes can easily be justified by the cost of the materials, manual labor, build quality, and extended lifespan over cheaper options. While sunglasses seem to be a bit of injection moulded plastic with some lenses for a 20x markup.
It’s mainly because of the Luxxotica monopoly. If course, there are a lot of sunglasses that are not name brands and those a much cheaper.
It can’t just be from the Luxxotica monopoly. These things are not hard or expensive to manufacture.
For some reason, people think Raybans are an amazing brand.
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Have you tried the Meta headset for movies?
When traveling, the Xreal Air 2 glasses are fantastic for watching video or playing games on your switch or steam deck. It’s light and comfortable, the FOV is good enough IMO, and the image quality is pretty solid (plus it’s using OLED). They don’t have to be charged at all and you don’t stand out as much as if you were wearing a full headset.
And they’re 120hz.
I’ve come to really enjoy my Xreal headset. Though, I just don’t use it often. I dislike how much effort it is to put on and take off when I also have a gaming headset on.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
#95I have spent hundreds of hours developing multiple apps for AVP, but I personally can't use it at all. My vision is uncorrected for general daily use (I wear glasses at the computer for slightly improved comfort, but I can see fine), but I find the Vision Pro to be fairly blurry, to the point that it's uncomfortable to use. I bought the custom Zeiss lenses, and they help marginally, but it's still blurry, particularly when mirroring a Mac display.
I recently had a friend with similarly good vision try it out, and he didn't think it was so bad until I mirrored the Mac display, and he agreed it was unusable.
Very disappointing for me, as this was something I was looking forward to for a long time.
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What's up with Raybans? They make the cheapest looking vanilla generic glasses I've ever seen, put a tacky logo on the lens and sell for a fortune. Why does anyone buy them?
They’re vanilla now because everyone copied their designs decades ago. They’re the original. Doesn’t mean they’re worth the cost, but now you know.
I can't imagine anyone going to a whiteboard back in the day to make a pair of sunglasses and walk away with any lesser of a design than Raybans. Give human ingenuity at least some credit. you can tie your shoes you can out design Raybans
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What's up with Raybans? They make the cheapest looking vanilla generic glasses I've ever seen, put a tacky logo on the lens and sell for a fortune. Why does anyone buy them?
I’m genuinely not sure how to say this without a little bit of snark, but do you…know how fashion works?
Lol, this is HN after all. Our fashion icons are Zucky with a hoodie (backend) or Jobs with a black turtleneck (frontend).
Raybans? How do you see the screen with those plastic goggles on?
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#98I feel like I would have been the ideal customer for it. I travel a lot and I'm a developer deep in the Apple ecosystem who is constantly wishing he had more screen real estate while bouncing between hotels and Airbnbs every few weeks. I bought it and tried it for two weeks and ended up returning it. It's really cool, but even aside from the issues with 1.0 like not being able to just pull up individual app windows f…
What's up with Raybans? They make the cheapest looking vanilla generic glasses I've ever seen, put a tacky logo on the lens and sell for a fortune. Why does anyone buy them?
I think the same thing about business suits (not sure what the proper name for them is, the thing that normal CEOs and lawyers wear, with the necktie and everything). They look super hot and uncomfortable and I wore one to a wedding once and then swore them off for life. Ridiculous items. But people pay thousands for them, apparently.
Powerful apes signal status with fancy fibers, I guess.
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What's up with Raybans? They make the cheapest looking vanilla generic glasses I've ever seen, put a tacky logo on the lens and sell for a fortune. Why does anyone buy them?
I think the same thing about business suits (not sure what the proper name for them is, the thing that normal CEOs and lawyers wear, with the necktie and everything). They look super hot and uncomfortable and I wore one to a wedding once and then swore them off for life. Ridiculous items. But people pay thousands for them, apparently. Powerful apes signal status with fancy fibers, I guess.
Suits can be very comfortable to wear, even with neckties and dress shoes. The first monkeys probably though shirts were hot, stuffy and uncomfortable too. They are not ridiculous items.
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#100I tried, and went back to laptop+monitor. In theory it would be great when on the go, but it doesn't really function without a laptop present, which makes it pretty unwieldy as you need two devices. In theory it would be good in a the back seat of a car or when walking around, except the software doesn't allow you to do that (windows are pinned to space outside the car, you can't make them follow you). When I'm at a…
What 8k screen are you using? Do you recommend it?
It's an LG 65QNED99UPA. There are a few caveats: using a 65" display up close imposes some requirements on your window manager (you want to treat the sides more like you'd treat a secondary monitor in a multimonitor setup, rather than have windows go all the way edge to edge); and you need to make sure that every GPU, KVM, and cable can handle 8k, in an ecosystem where most don't. If you can handle those two things, it's great.