• LiveLaughLoveRevenge@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    While I wouldn’t want to wear an AVP around people, if someone came up to me it would be nice for them to know if I’m seeing them via passthrough or if I’m completely in VR

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      1 year ago

      I think its very odd that they managed to combine VR and google glass to some how come up with something even more off putting. Can’t wait to see someone wearing these while driving.

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    1 year ago

    I’m gonna be honest, google glass was a lot more practical than this, sure google glass was expensive and you got made fun of, but now we have vr headsets for the masses, would a google glass like device succeed if it was under 300$?

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    1 year ago

    Oh hey Tim Cook tweeted a video ad about the nightmare goggles today and the first thing it showed was someone using them to work while barely paying attention to making their child breakfast.

    Very cool and good I love capitalism =^)

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    To be fair, the technology is really fascinating. Virtual objects throwing shadows on the real environment or generating a virtual face in realtime is stunning. But on a practical note, does this keep your face from getting sweaty? Can you wear glasses comfortably? Can you change light seals when they get dirty?

    Nevertheless this is in effect just a glorified monitor, but will certainly cost several times more. So I really can’t imagine compelling use cases. Especially since you can only use it with other apple devices.

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    I just feel like VR is never really going to be a thing most people enjoy using. People have always used tools with their hands, the smartphone is just the most advanced version yet. Wearing something over your field of vision feels unnatural and unintuitive, and I don’t see that ever changing. I already feel kinda uncomfortable even when I just put my hoodie up. What if someone comes at me from behind 🫣

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      Smartphones are kinda dumb though. As smart as they are they are a tiny screen you need to hold.

      Screens monitors tvs pads whatever are just glass that information is beamed onto.

      Why not just use that same tech to be that same information in front of your vision. Cut out the middle man that is the phone screen. Isn’t that better ?

      I’d love to have a heads up display but I don’t think it has much practical applications. Can see my heart rate my maybe my speed and my location of I need directions.

      This is the same revolution that were phones. People like you said the exact same thing. Be dumb to look at your phone all day. Yet here we are.

      Chicken and egg. Need the hardware to start off the software. Without useful reasons for it it will die. Price point too

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        1 year ago

        There’s a big difference there. Before the smart phone we would use notepads. Writing things down on a little pad of paper is something we’ve done for 100s of years. We just swapped out the paper or booklet for a digital device.