key impressions i'm getting from reviews i've seen so far
- in the ways this is ahead, it feels next generation
- the software is currently surprisingly janky, but it still puts the quest's UI and available non-game apps to shame
- various things are held back either by
- apple's ambition (one strap is extra comfortable in back but has no top strap because it looks nicer - while the other strap has a top strap but is worse in back. there is no way to use both of them at the same time)
- apple's avarice (i wonder if netflix would have been more willing to make an app if apple had not spent years demanding their pound of flesh. an indie dev had to make their own youtube app)
- apple's desire for control (the face and eye tracking is really good, but is as far as I know unusable outside of the Persona feature - so VRChat can't take advantage when/if it gets ported)
- flying too close to the sun (they might be best in class, but displays and cameras are still displays and cameras)
in a similar vein as the ipad 1 and the apple watch series 0, i'd expect a lot of these to be ironed out by the time there's a version of this that regular people should even think about. this is not that version, by any stretch
as for the current hardware, some of this can be fixed with software updates. some with accessories, whether apple makes them or third parties step up. but some of this can only be fixed if either it reaches the "too big to ignore" point or apple suddenly decides to be less of an asshole to devs, but given the response to the Digital Markets Act it's very clear that they'll do things in the most petulant way possible while kicking and screaming at every step, and they will absolutely deserve whatever piece of heavier legislation comes next
- a new era of glassholes is already upon us, and i give it a few days before someone is hit by a car while encountering dinosaurs or playing the version of synth riders they've got.
if a version of pokemon go is released for this , then it could cause the kind of casualties it hasn't done since 2016/2017
and yet still. this is ambient, just having whatever you want around you. if you can get your work done with ipad apps and they're compatible, you can have a workspace pretty much anywhere. i can imagine things like a maps app overlay being useful for actually being able to see what important landmarks are close in a way just seeing on a 2D map might not be
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i wonder what the point will be where like airpods the switch will suddenly flip and it's just normal seeing these in public rather than a novelty - or if there even will be one given that even if they halved the price for a future "budget" version, that's still $1750
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both this review and marques's current final review mention that in the brief time they've owned it, they forgot some of the windows aren't real when interacting with others or after taking the headset off. i've done this before, but that was after some very long nights at furality
It's a passthrough feed of cameras, into a processing unit, into a screen, that you see.
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So what happens if one of those crashes.
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