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    10 months ago

    It’s a native feature of the device that allows its user to get enormous amounts of attention, in real life and subsequently online, by simply wearing it in public.

    Sounds horrible. I guess I’m not someone who seeks attention at any cost like some people, it public is the last situation I’d use this thing in. I would feel like a complete dumbass wearing it at a coffee shop and waving my hands around.

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      10 months ago

      It’s the same problem google glass had. It can be the most information rich and user friendly device in the world but if you look like a dingus wearing it, it will never catch on.

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        That’s what I thought about the elephant tusk looking AirPods yet here we are.

        The Reality Distortion Field sometimes makes things hard to predict when it comes to Apple products.

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          People on here are wired.

          Air pods just look like regular apple headphones just without wires.

          They sure as shit look less goofy than my huge pixel buds that stuck an inch out of my ear.

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              Lol. So Gen 2 they were finally like “let’s shape this thing more like someone’s ear”. Then Gen 3 “Fuck it, ears are apparently different shapes let’s just go with the tried and true method that’s been around on $5 earphones for a decade”

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          10 months ago

          I’m kind of surprised people felt that way about AirPods. I don’t remember that at the time. They seem quite mild to me at this point - people didn’t mind wearing regular earbuds around, why worry if there’s a cord or not?

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          Then if you wear it you’ll be an even bigger dingus and make other dinguses look less dingusy. It would kinda be a public service of sorts I guess.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, last thing I want is more attention while wearing those things and the chance that people will be able to hear the audio from the pr0n I’d be watching on it.

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    10 months ago

    They bought themselves into a beta test/focus group. Apple still doesn’t know what this will be. It might be a Newton MessagePad. Or it might be the iPhone.

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      10 months ago

      There was quite a different reaction to the iPhone when it launched, so I’m pretty confident it’s not the latter.

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        10 months ago

        I just meant as successful. They’ve had several. The original iPod. The iPad. They’ve also had duds. The newton. The HomePod. The Pippin. Ping

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    10 months ago

    They bought Tim Cook a new private jet. I thought they’d have figured by now.

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      10 months ago

      Is Apple heading down the road of Windows now? Release beta software and use the scream test to debug it?

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        You mean selling unrepairable beta products of questionable usefulness at insane prices?

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        10 months ago

        When iPhone was released App Store didn’t even exist. A smartphone without apps is just a phone and VR glasses without apps are just a 360 degree monitor you wear on your face. I think Apple’s reasoning here is to provide the hardware and see what people do with it.

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          Can confirm, I had an Apple Newton. Hardware with no purpose is just hardware. So far, this seems like it’s going where every VR headset goes. It’s a solution looking for a problem.

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          Yeah the iPhone was successful at launch because it was a sleek blackberry and had iPod like capabilities. But it didn’t blow up until the App Store came out. I expect this product to do the same, and in the same way, companies to release competitive products with similar capabilities in a feature war until the newest releases are mostly talking about resolution and processor speed instead of new features

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          I think Apple’s reasoning here is to provide the hardware and see what people do with it.

          for sure, and in the rest of the tech world, we call these devkits, not finished products. Apple is trying to convince rando non-dev apple fanboys to pay $3500 for the privilege of playing with devkits. And in many ways, it’s a dead end, especially on input. what a shit show.

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      I would love to walk around with a video playing in a fixed hud while I go around doing chores. I’m constantly finding places to put my phone down every time I move to another station.

      I’m not paying $3500 for that, though.

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      10 months ago

      It’s not even AR… Didn’t they back down from that? Isn’t it mixed reality or something?

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        How is augmented reality different from mixed reality? Genuine question. They sound like the same thing.

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          I believe AR overlays information about the real world where as mixed reality just shows you the real world with a few apps floating about

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            Yes, AR analyses your world and you and gives you more info about the reality, Mixed Reality just has your screens attend into the world without interacting with it. The only thing I saw that was really AR was the use with a MacBook as a screen.

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          I didn’t see anyone mention this, but while this headset depicts the outside world when you are wearing it, you are viewing a camera feed of that world. True AR would be like google glass where it is a piece of glass with data projected onto it. Apples thing recreates the world around you and then adds in the applications, you are viewing the world through a filter.

          It could also just be marketing too because it seems like they are trying really hard to not make this look like some nerd shit.

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          We don’t have mixed reality yet. The difference is that AR adds a data overlay on the physical world while MR is more like a hologram that you can interface with and everyone can see the same thing without needing additional goggles or display over the eyes.

          We don’t have true MR yet. Apple is marketing the vision pro as spatial computing and it’s a mix between VR and AR.

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            Where are you getting that definition from? Oxford’s is “a medium consisting of immersive computer-generated environments in which elements of a physical and virtual environment are combined.”

            “visitors will be able to watch a tennis match broadcast in mixed reality”

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          That’s because it’s just marketing bullshit.

          The worst person you’ve ever met came up with it in a very upscale cube farm over a chai latte, don’t think too hard about it.

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      10 months ago

      I hate Hate HATE that I’m going to say this: the iPad was just a bigger iPhone, yet here we are. It’s the perfect device for consumption and light work, yet people had no idea about what to do with it at first.

      I’m more irked about that thing being gigantic and strapped to your face, thought. It’s the next level of social isolation, in a level even higher that the one cause by smartphones, and I’m not ok with that. Companies actually want to hijack and sell your reality back to you.

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        I’m with you. AR and VR has potential, absolutely, but companies are not our friends and they’ll find ways to exploit these things to the detriment of us. They always do.

        We all know that these companies aren’t above lying straight to our faces. They’re even undermining the concept of ownership so they can milk us even further.

        It’s sad, but I don’t see a reality where this kind of tech being closed off and proprietary will ever end well.

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        I think part of the “what do I do with this” factor for the iPad was that Apple (and other companies still to this day) were so hell bent on making everything smaller and more compact that releasing a larger product was marketing whiplash. Not to mention that smartphones were being pitched as this “do everything device” so why would you need anything else?

        After you get over that marketing sugarcoating, it becomes pretty obvious what you’d use an iPad for. Internet and media consumption at a larger scale than your phone, easier on your eyes than a phone, but retains at least some of the lightweight smaller form factor that separates it from a regular laptop. Sure you didn’t have the stick it in your pocket advantage of a phone or the full keyboard and computational power of a laptop, but there was this in-between that for a modest fee, you could have the conveniences if you can live with/ignore the sacrifices.

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    People walking around with them on is basically just their wait of saying “look at my butthole!”

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      For a second on my mind I Imagined a butt dildo with a night vision camera at the top… I am not going to check if that exists.

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    Huh. And here I am, like some poor person, with no AR headset and $3500 extra in my bank account. I feel like such an idiot.

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      In this economy, most people don’t even have that in their account. I guess that’s part of the status bit… If you have these, who can say your not doing well?

      In reality, it just makes them look like the assholes they very likely are.

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    The people who buy something like this (hopefully) have enough money where $3,500 doesn’t matter or are developers who want to get in early on something that might be big in a few versions.

    Everyone else should avoid.

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      These are the early adopters phase. This always happens with high-end tech. I’m not sure how advanced this set is compared to the competition in order to justify that price.

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    A 4K USD electronic device that’s what they bought…if they needed its features not sure but… that’s what they bought.

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    Seems like most people are saying “this is dope for media,” and outside of that, it’s a glorified dev kit.

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      I still have my old dev version of the Oculus. It came with fancy changeable lenses lol. I don’t regret that one at all and now it kinda feels like a little piece of history