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True, but it seems more like it's placing a bet in the VR space like the first iPhone did. No one wanted iPhone v1 forever, and so I think the next few versions of the Vision Pro will be pretty interesting if this is the starting point. It also raises the bar of expectation for other VR/AR headsets. Seems like a net benefit for an area of tech that has been pretty stagnant for a while.
iphone 1 was way better than any of the alternatives at the time. Probably a better analogy were the bulky portable phones of the early 90s, which ultimately became smartphones, but after two decades!
Vision Pro is way way better than the alternatives.
And the original iPhone was almost unusably slow and really didn’t do much.
Waiting half a minute for NYT to load and then seeing constant checkerboards got old very quickly.
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I want to force kitchen staff to wear this and have it remind them to change gloves based on what they’ve touched either being a potential allergen or contaminant. Makes me cringe when I see people who work with food also working the register, for instance. Too easy to get lazy and not change the gloves.
Sounds dystopian. Would you want to be forced to wear a heavy headset that nagged you to comment your code and write unit tests?
Who says it has to be heavy? While I’m wishing I’ll wish for it to weigh the same as a regular pair of glasses…
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If it means that I get to work with well commented and tested code, that might be worth it.
It's an interesting philosophical dilemma. What else would you be willing to force on everyone to improve (in your opinion) your circumstances? We clearly do this a bit (taxes, vaccines, etc), but finding the threshold is very tricky, and can lead to pretty authoritarian environments.
We’ve already agreed to certain food standards. The fact that people don’t follow them is enough for me to say we need something more strict. Is it a headset? Maybe not. But periodic training and availability of PPE aren’t doing the job either. The shortage of labor at the low end of the market doesn’t help, either. What I’d rather have than a germophobic headset is for people to take pride in their work (whether you serve food or write code), but that also seems to be a lost cause. I’m lucky if I can get a restaurant to count the number of items in the bag before handing it to the delivery driver.
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