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Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not

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Re: Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not

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whynotminot wrote: post #126
coffeebeqn wrote: post #43

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The plane thing is funny. I can’t imagine anyone actually using VR in economy. At best you’ll annoy people next to you and the flight attendants if they need you to move or respond. At worst you’ll hit your head on something or whack someone with the controllers

There's a lot to question about AVP, but this doesn't make sense. What are you hitting your head on sitting in your seat on an airplane? If you've got the aisle seat and someone needs to move, they do the same thing they do when you're wearing your noise canceling headphone or taking a nap--tap your shoulder. It's not rocket science. The device has breakthrough--when someone comes near (eg a flight attendant), it bre…

> when someone comes near (eg a flight attendant), it breaks through the immersive VR and shows them to you.

Or when someone walks past to use the washroom.

Re: Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not

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spectre3d wrote: post #378
tuscen wrote: post #320

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I'd advice you to skip another generation. I can give my experience with it. I have Q3 and try to use it for work from time to time and it is still not enough to replace an actual monitor, at least for me. FOV of 110 degress is too narrow, maybe 140 degress would solve it, but I'm not sure. The thing is that apparently I glance to content without turning my head a lot and I discovered it when I tried to use Q3 for ac…

>You can't just sit behind you desk, put on the glasses and start working. I just sit behind my desk, put on the glasses and start working. Maybe you’re not aware of the feature that both Meta Remote Desktop and Virtual Desktop offer, to auto-connect when the headset is put on. No friction. OTOH, VD only permits 1 virtual display, and Meta RD offers 3x1080p ones, but both options are plenty sharp to work on. The free…

I've tried to use Meta Remote Desktop and it's full of bugs, e.g. it just can't keep being authenticated with my Meta account, so I can't use it at all, even though one of last updates mentioned the fix for this particular bug. I've also tried Virtual Desktop and it can't remember my Meta Quest username between restarts so I must always remember to enter the username.

Regarding hand tracking it's just more comfortable for me to use my hands to control MQ interface without looking for controllers every time I need to do something in VR.

It might work for your specific circumstances or maybe you're more tolerant to it's issues but as a whole it doesn't work for me at the moment. I've seen a few reviews of AVP and it seems to tick more boxes for me than MQ. But the problem right now are the price and Apple-only ecosystem, i.e. there's no way to use virtual desktops with non-Mac computers.

The thing is that the current state of VR regarding work inside it is still mostly for enthusiasts who are willing to tolerate early-adopters' issues and I'm not one of them. I need it to work flawlessly like a regular setup with a monitor.

Re: Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not

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tuscen wrote: post #382
spectre3d wrote: post #378

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>You can't just sit behind you desk, put on the glasses and start working. I just sit behind my desk, put on the glasses and start working. Maybe you’re not aware of the feature that both Meta Remote Desktop and Virtual Desktop offer, to auto-connect when the headset is put on. No friction. OTOH, VD only permits 1 virtual display, and Meta RD offers 3x1080p ones, but both options are plenty sharp to work on. The free…

I've tried to use Meta Remote Desktop and it's full of bugs, e.g. it just can't keep being authenticated with my Meta account, so I can't use it at all, even though one of last updates mentioned the fix for this particular bug. I've also tried Virtual Desktop and it can't remember my Meta Quest username between restarts so I must always remember to enter the username. Regarding hand tracking it's just more comfortabl…

Thanks for your reply.

> it just can't keep being authenticated with my Meta account. Virtual Desktop … can't remember my Meta Quest username … I must always remember to enter the username.

That would be a really rough experience, I’m sorry to hear that’s happening to you. I haven’t had to enter my username since the first time I launched either app, over a month ago.

I also use hand tracking to adjust the screens, but stick to keyboard and mouse for all my work on said virtual displays.

Thankfully the auto-connect feature works smoothly for me, so adjusting the position of displays is the only time I need to use the hand tracking.

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