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Airpods aren’t cool though, the majority don’t wear them nor can they afford them.
You appear to be a bit unclear on what cool means.
Air pods are about as cool-looking as a hearing aid. At best, they're utilitarian.
Traveling with Apple Vision Pro
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#382My concerns are around the normalization of pointing high-resolution cameras at people around you all the time. Perhaps this specific device may have a company behind it that, at least at the moment, will resist handing the video feed with you in it to the data brokers. Make no mistake though, the data brokers are foaming at the mouth to get access to high-resolution constantly-streaming video content that includes y…
This is complete science fiction / FUD. Amazon can't even stop showing you ads for vacuum cleaners after you buy a vacuum cleaner, you think they have the compute for something that sophisticated?
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>My concerns are around the normalization of pointing high-resolution cameras at people around you all the time. This already exists with CCTVs on every major city streetcorner and Ring cameras on every doorstep. Not to mention Tesla cloud-connected cameras pointed inward and outward.
Most of the CCTV and Ring cameras are pretty lousy and they're in fixed locations. All the time I'll be out walking and hear an obnoxious "You are currently being recorded" announcement, but I'm far enough away from that cheap camera that I'm probably a shadowy figure in a grainy video. These VR headsets on the other hand are high-quality, very close to other people, and mobile.
Don't confuse temporary with forever. I remember folks dismissing digital cameras out of hand, and now you can barely buy an alternative.
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#384> In fact, of all the screens and displays in my house, my Vision Pro is hands down the highest quality display that I own, so I very much look forward to watching visually compelling movies in it.
How does a vision pro compare to a say 60 inch 4K tv, in terms of perceived sharpness (I get that it has more pixels, but they are closer to your eye and cover your whole field of view)? I owned an OG quest, and for me watching movies just didn't quite match up to the experience of an actual tv.
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Slightly OT but I much prefer the 9211+: the vent[*] makes a difference in comfort when worn over long periods. Or the 9105 / 9105S which sticks out further away from the face, and its elastic design makes it a bit quicker to don / doff at checkpoints. [*] Yes I'm prioritizing my comfort over safety for others, but that's the American Way (tm), isn't it.
There are masks with full N95 filtration that have a fan built in to pull the air through the filter. Makes it much more comfortable to wear for long periods. (I switch to a mask with no metal in it for airport metal detectors, but I can switch back again immediately afterwards.)
Any recommendations for such masks?
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#386"The movies that play in virtual screens are native to the films’ aspect ratios, which can vary movie to movie, eliminating the black bars of “letterboxing” and “pillarboxing” you typically have on iPads, iPhones, or MacBooks." Then proceeds to show screenshots where more than 50% of the screen is background. Just because you decided to show cloud instead of black doesn't mean it's not letterboxing.
The screenshots are misleading. "Inside" an AVP watching a movie the corner to corner angle can exceed THX recommendation of 40 degrees. Doesn't seem like a lot until you hold a protractor up to your eyeball. And then you realize how much area falls outside that angle, surroundings you don't think about at the theater. The AVP has to render that unwatchable area for you as well, and it ends up in screenshots.
You can do the same thing with any screen by holding it the appropriate distance.
Keep in mind that all that unwatchable area is pixels that aren't being used to improve the movie image.
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Most of the CCTV and Ring cameras are pretty lousy and they're in fixed locations. All the time I'll be out walking and hear an obnoxious "You are currently being recorded" announcement, but I'm far enough away from that cheap camera that I'm probably a shadowy figure in a grainy video. These VR headsets on the other hand are high-quality, very close to other people, and mobile.
>Most of the CCTV and Ring cameras are pretty lousy and they're in fixed locations. The CCTVs in Chicago are 360 degree panning plus up/down, and can zoom-in four blocks away with enough resolution to make out a face and license plate. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/09/29/chicago-police-cam... . Here is an example of the cameras in action: https://x.com/CWBChicago/status/1445124776742227980
Did you have to pick a video where somebody is killed?
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#388Just putting in my take for the vision-pro-curious, coming from a tall/big tech guy with excellent vision who owns one: I kept mine this whole time and I still actually use it regularly and it still amazes me. There's a steady trickle of interesting things that appear for it, and it's VERY useful as a giant virtual extended laptop screen if you have a Macbook. Especially if you are in a recliner and can tilt the virt…
Haven't used mine in a while, can you recommend some apps for it as I try out the 2.0 OS?
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You appear to be a bit unclear on what cool means.
Are you sure you’re not conflating cool with elitism?
Zillions of people are out there wearing cheap AirPod knockoffs too.
I don't think any ear buds are "cool", but certainly nobody cares, it's perfectly normal.
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To their credit, Apple users save a lot of money by living rent-free in your head. 99% of Apple users are not thinking about how much better they are than other people for buying the phone or computer they did. They just bought it because it's the obvious choice and they've had good experiences with it in the past. Every time an anti-Apple zealout busts out the spec sheets to prove why alternatives are so much better…
99% of Apple users are not thinking about how much better they are than other people for buying the phone or computer they did.
You must not spend any time around teenagers. Teenagers absolutely judge people for not having iPhones.
best option that puts up the minimal amount of fighting and a handful of workflows that you simply can't recreate in other ecosystems without dozens of asterisks.
This is backwards.
My mentees (and on the other end of the age scale, my in-laws) are always shocked that I can do something on my Android in seconds that takes them minutes on an iPhone...assuming they can even do it on their iPhones at all.