Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

azadux.blog

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

441–450 of 620 posts

Re: Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

#441

Post by sho_hn »

stevage wrote: post #430
derefr wrote: post #392

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taking a flight as an opportunity to indulge in a moment of blissful idleness is great... on a three-hour flight. But on a 14-hour trans-continental flight, you've gotta have something to do. If nothing else, to distract you from how uncomfortable it is to be effectively confined to your seat + a few feet of narrow walkway for that long. That's more confined than a prison cell!

>But on a 14-hour trans-continental flight Now you've got me wondering if that's even possible. Ankara to Singapore? Durban to Algiers? Edit: to be clear, I was nitpicking "trans continental", ie., flights within the same continent.

To add to a sibling comment: Thanks to the Ukraine war and having to fly around both Russia and Ukraine, this is many additional routes from Europe toward East now that used to be shorter.

Re: Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

#442

Post by stevage »

zamadatix wrote: post #434
stevage wrote: post #430

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>But on a 14-hour trans-continental flight Now you've got me wondering if that's even possible. Ankara to Singapore? Durban to Algiers? Edit: to be clear, I was nitpicking "trans continental", ie., flights within the same continent.

Much of Europe to Japan, LAX to China or Australia, NYC to India or Japan (opposite directions). It's really quite common, you can check around by airport using this map with the duration filter set to 14+ https://www.flightconnections.com/flights-from-new-york-ewr

Yep, I live in Melbourne. It's the trans-continental bit I was querying.

Re: Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

#443

Post by stevage »

mr_toad wrote: post #437
stevage wrote: post #430

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>But on a 14-hour trans-continental flight Now you've got me wondering if that's even possible. Ankara to Singapore? Durban to Algiers? Edit: to be clear, I was nitpicking "trans continental", ie., flights within the same continent.

Auckland to London is about 23 hours.

Not in a single leg though, surely.

Re: Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

#444

Post by HolySE »

sho_hn wrote: post #438
nox101 wrote: post #409

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good for you. I can't sleep sitting on plane. The only times I've been able to to sleep is (1) getting a free upgrade to 1st class where I could lie down (2) a mostly empty plane where I could stretch out across three seats.

I couldn't sleep on planes my entire life until one year I did Europe-Korea 8 times and it became so routine it started working. The routine part, I think, is what took the "I won't sleep on this long flight" anxiety away somehow, because I started learning the rhythm of the flight. For example, there is no point to try and sleep until the initial meal is served, you'll just get woken up anyway. So now I just spend t…

> BTW, to give this a software dimension: I was recently on a flight with an airline I hadn't used before, and I really liked a UI in their in-flight infotainment that showed the entire flight as a timeline with all meaningful events penciled in (when the meals are, etc.) and a recommendation during which blocks to sleep. That was really nice and thoughtful.

Do you recall which airline this was? Given similar pricing, this seems like a useful differentiator that would sway my decision of which airline to pick.

Re: Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

#445

Post by j16sdiz »

tqi wrote: post #382
steelframe wrote: post #339

My 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?

Not able to compute that won't stop them reselling or holding it. At some point it will leak, and available for sell to PI or someone will more personal interest on you

Re: Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

#446

Post by mrbonner »

drewg123 wrote: post #230

For air travel, I really like my Xreal Air glasses now that I have a newer iPhone 16pro. Just plug in the USB-C cable, and you have a virtual 60" screen in front of you which works perfectly for Netflix, etc. And they cost less than 10% of the cost of an AVP, and are not limited to 2-3 hours of battery life (they get power from the phone). Note that if you have an older (lightning) iPhone, don't bother with these. Th…

Never known this exists. How’s the experience from HN users here? I may get the Aair as it is on-sale now.

Re: Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

#447

Post by seb1204 »

HolySE wrote: post #444
sho_hn wrote: post #438

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I couldn't sleep on planes my entire life until one year I did Europe-Korea 8 times and it became so routine it started working. The routine part, I think, is what took the "I won't sleep on this long flight" anxiety away somehow, because I started learning the rhythm of the flight. For example, there is no point to try and sleep until the initial meal is served, you'll just get woken up anyway. So now I just spend t…

> BTW, to give this a software dimension: I was recently on a flight with an airline I hadn't used before, and I really liked a UI in their in-flight infotainment that showed the entire flight as a timeline with all meaningful events penciled in (when the meals are, etc.) and a recommendation during which blocks to sleep. That was really nice and thoughtful. Do you recall which airline this was? Given similar pricing…

Not sure why not mention the airline in the post directly. Is this some kind of avoiding advertising for the brand? Really curious. Can't be click bait or SEO on hn.

Re: Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

#449

Post by sho_hn »

seb1204 wrote: post #447
HolySE wrote: post #444

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> BTW, to give this a software dimension: I was recently on a flight with an airline I hadn't used before, and I really liked a UI in their in-flight infotainment that showed the entire flight as a timeline with all meaningful events penciled in (when the meals are, etc.) and a recommendation during which blocks to sleep. That was really nice and thoughtful. Do you recall which airline this was? Given similar pricing…

Not sure why not mention the airline in the post directly. Is this some kind of avoiding advertising for the brand? Really curious. Can't be click bait or SEO on hn.

Ironically, probably just sleepiness - I was posting from bed with an infant that wakes up periodically. Sadly WiFi is not opt-in in my bedroom :-)

It was Finnair from Berlin to Seoul, via Helsinki.

Edit: I found a YouTube video showing a version of this feature from 8 years ago, but I think the one I saw was a bit more refined: https://youtu.be/5-CrsPAZslg - still, interesting that it's this old and I haven't seen it anywhere else.

Re: Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

#450

Post by tightbookkeeper »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #408

Why does Apple insist on putting all the content into a little box? I want whatever I'm playing to FILL the viewing area. Likewise with trying to work, which is indeed another huge potential benefit to this thing as plane travel becomes more and more customer-hostile. Reviews I've read reported that it's tedious to try to work with the puny virtual Mac screen. Also, Apple's fear of I/O has crippled the Vision Pro. If…

> Also, Apple's fear of I/O

How many other VR headsets do you know of with print support?

Post reply on HN