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The Apple Vision Pro and the future of workspaces

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Re: The Apple Vision Pro and the future of workspaces

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Their take on remote working spaces is an interesting one for people who perhaps lack a good work space and I agree the idea is enticing. I imagine working in a collaborative space with my colleagues but also other friends in other jobs in the same virtual space. On paper it sounds great. But I worry that spending too much time in a virtual world, will rid the need for people to build and live in their spaces in the…

It disgusts me how capitalist society would wish to introduce scarcity where there is none. In a just world, one would be able to create their own furniture themselves, without needing to involve the platform owner.

Re: The Apple Vision Pro and the future of workspaces

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Having actually spent a lot of time doing work in VR on a Quest 2 with Immersed, I disagree about the eye projection and AR being gimmicks. The thing that ruins VR for me is the complete isolation from my surroundings. I want to be able to bring my virtual work into the real world, and I want people to be comfortable speaking to me while I have the headset on.

The benefit of not using AR, but instead using VR, in a workplace is that you can spend less on office space. You can take any room and stuff it with small phone-booths where each worker is in a VR world. You don't have to spend money on a canteen, just feed the worker with a tube in the booth while they are in a virtual restaurant. You can probably get four times as many workers in the same space as the open offices…

Workers can use VR at home, company spends zero on office space. Worker doesn't have to spend on a car, gas and saves 2 hours commute time. Toxins are not spewed on the way to work. Win-win all around.
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