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the new apple gadget is honestly pretty impressive from a technical perspective but it's ultimately just a really roundabout and expensive way to do a bunch of stuff we can already do in a slightly less convenient way

I guess I can see the value in being able to have something that's almost as good as a multihead monitor setup that you can just strap to your face and carry around with you, but that ain't worth $3,500 US. we can already watch movies in VR. we can already video chat. we can already do everything this thing purports to do, and we can do it for cheaper and without strapping something to our ugly mugs.



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it probably wouldn't have to be that high res, and it probably wouldn't need a whole lot in the way of internal hardware. I'm basically imagining something that costs like $200, runs almost entirely over USB-C or displayport and shows up to your OS as just a really high-res display. I know basically fuckall about VR so I have no idea how feasible this is.

so unless you're 100% going for the "what if I stapled a monitor to my face" aesthetic, you're probably going to want the virtual display anchored in physical space, that means you need sensors to determine that anchor, and a chip that can transform the image as necessary to make it seem anchored, and you need it to do that in real time so you don't get nauseous from too much disconnect between your eyes and inertia sensors in your inner ear.

You might be able to offload that image processing to the host computer though, if you feed it the sensor data.