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[deleted] t1_jdsdcxi wrote

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zeddy303 t1_jdsuwne wrote

I'd rather have it on my hip than on my head. Heavy headsets is what sucks more than how it looks (and tell me a headset that looksnon laughable.

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Not_a_creativeuser t1_jdtpn6x wrote

The Quest Pro with those pancake lenses and distributed weight on front and Back looks pretty good.

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SheepGoesBaaaa t1_jdumn4q wrote

Plus, a lot of us carried walkmans and discmans for years. Most still use wired headphones for phones in their pocket.

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NMS-Town t1_jdt1mn3 wrote

No pun intended, but Apple is hip, they'll make it happen. You're not going to be cool, unless you knocking over little old ladies and giving kids concussions from your battle brick.

Then what? You going to walk around with battery grenade on your waist, and then China can easily pay us back for Tik Tok ... Tick Tock.

You and a Tesla would have one thing in common. You both would be able to burn rubber. :-)

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Muted_Sorts t1_jdt2hj5 wrote

Tesla engineers said production was rushed. Outcome: Recalls, lots of recalls.

Engineers at Apple say they aren't ready. I believe them.

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NMS-Town t1_jdtfjqv wrote

At that price point $3000, it is a bit troubling.

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Dont_Trust_Reddit12 t1_jdsjto3 wrote

I got downvoted in the other thread about this for saying such things. Too many people don't understand we don't have the power technology to power a true AR device without swapping out massive battery bricks.

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CarelessBuilder9271 t1_jdsm4s5 wrote

Think of it like this: hearing assistive devices are made tiny so that people can keep thinking they look cool. But no components that small can give a user the performance they ought to. Too small for good microphones, speakers and amps and feature-rich ultra-low-latency audio that sounds good. So you can have something tiny and limited or big and feature-rich.

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panthereal t1_jdtsmvm wrote

You make it look like an iPod gen 1. Retro is hip.

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pasta4u t1_jduef3n wrote

I rather have the battery plus the apu/soc on my hip than on my head imo. It would reduce a hell of a lot of weight from the units.

But $3k for a rumored price and this thing is going to be a tough sell even for apple

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Ishynethetruth t1_jdvsknu wrote

I said a similar thing when I first saw the AirPods , I have 3 generations now

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BrutalHunny t1_jdw1g22 wrote

I’m sure I can leave it on the nightstand while I watch vr porn which is the only thing vr is good for.

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mrlr t1_jdsf6lh wrote

$3,000 is an eye-watering price.

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CarelessBuilder9271 t1_jdsnubn wrote

I kind of want to call “waaaaah” on this take. One could certainly say it’s a great way for consumers to show their absolute contempt for the poor.

But chances are that someone that characterization would fit is someone who bought it because it was new and shiny. And the first ones are going to be expensive until we all figure out what we want and need from such a device.

And yeah, 3k is huge money. But as someone who is neurodivergent and writes music for a living, this seems like an amazing tool to help with focus, that interacts with an ecosystem I’m invested in.

Let’s object to wage inequality that makes these things unreachable rather than expecting them to come out with something that cannot possibly be sold cheaply and be as great as they likely imagine it is.

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vibrance9460 t1_jdt87zb wrote

People laughed at every single first generation product Apple has made after the phone. iPad, Watch, HomePod and AppleTV

It’s not gonna be the final product. It never is. Like every other Apple product by third gen it will be 1st in class.

Bank on it

Apple’s big enough they don’t need the initial offering to be a smash.

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The-Protomolecule t1_jdw8qmy wrote

ITT: People that forget that it took Apple 20 years to get back to launching hit products. Most of their life they’ve tested niche products at high prices before pursuing mass market. The frequently launched products too early for the market and abandoned them.

Even if these fail, I’m happy to see apple taking some risk instead of just printing money with incremental improvements to watches, phones, and iPads for the last decade. They can afford a miss but the upside is huge if they get it right in 2-3 generations.

If you think these are too expensive, you’re not the target audience.

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Kitchen-Reflection52 t1_jdsdbci wrote

I like the 3D projection system without wearing a weird glasses better. I mean the one in “extrapolation” is awesome.

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CarelessBuilder9271 t1_jdslq7e wrote

I was just thinking of how great it would be to edit audio to picture in this, or to compose with it. Wondering if the forward-facing camera has a reasonable way to show the wearer’s hands on a keyboard other than “turning up the reality dial”, which is soon to be a commonly used phrase, I hope, especially pointed at execs in the business world but also at people who like to see things only the way they want.

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OmioKonio t1_jdupa4g wrote

Lol, nobody addressed the fact that these announces are just PR...

>Seriously Concerned

😂🤣 "It's so real we are concerned people will be addicted"

"It's so good, (buy it by the way) that users will lose their grip on reality"

"It's so ergonomic you forget about the pain and suffering of the children who made it" (said with the voice of pinhead from hellraiser... Because that's good ssssuffering)

This reminds me of the Rockstar bad news at the release of GTA1, where they paid or asked for it.

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thxpk t1_jdx8h06 wrote

AR is pointless

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