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I loved everything about it until I saw this image and then I literally laughed out loud. I think the "you look ridiculous" factor is even higher than VR... Imagine going to a meeting with this on!

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It's a prototype for crying out loud. It's not meant to be a consumer device and it's not being advertised as one. Get off your high horse mate.

I'm not on a horse. Their website is extremely glossy and it's version 2 apparently; fair enough if you say it's not a consumer device.

I feel like the looking ridiculous factor is a perfectly reasonable fear to have and a big reason why I wouldn't buy it. Downvote away but it's a reasonable stance to take IMO and this clearly suffers from it more than VR.

Development Kit, not "release". This is the second prototype aimed at developers. And a glossy site doesn't mean the product is released :|.

Besides, while it is a fair point to make, people using cell phones looked ridiculous back in the days. And yet everyone has a cell phone now. I don't think the ridiculous-factor will be a major blocker if the benefits of the device outbalance it.

I guess you can hold out for contacts or an eyeglasses form-factor, but I can't really wrap my head around a technology enthusiast thinking "I'd love for my sensory perception of reality to transcend the physical world, but I don't want to look like a dang nerd."

And even if that's the case, it looks pretty sleek & sci-fi IMO

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