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A lot of these points under section 3 just seem plain false. You can certainly use the device in a stand alone way w/o wifi. You can also open individual apps as windows as well as whole monitors when using it as a PC headset.

The section about what is adequate for long term use seems to be just an opinion. Have they even tried one yet?

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The number of screens is a little dependant on your use case. In Infinate Office mode i.e. using the built in browser windows or 2D PWAs its all on board, limited to 3 in Quest 2 and idk on Pro. These are stand alone no external support needed. In PCVR mode as a remote desktop with Horizon Workplace/ImmerssedVR/vSpatial then you are limited by the resolution settings you want such that the total fits your Quest screen budget. I do find the PPD calculations interesting since they are right the details are not easy to find published. Color Passthrough is the big win on this Pro headset and new Mixed Reality applications will lead its adoption which is good news for everyone in the XR space including Simula.

We acknowledge you can use native Meta apps in a standalone way (we discuss this in section 5). The problem is that there aren't many native productivity apps running on Meta.

"Literally every Android app that doesn't directly require GPS" is quite a few native productivity applications.

Except sideloaded apps are stuck in the "unknown sources" category which has no icons, no sorting, no search and is sorted in "last installed" order and nothing else.

Or you can install an app launcher which is also stuck in "unknown sources". So you have to find your app launcher and launch that first - which rather cancels out any advantage an app launcher would bring.

It's a huge disadvantage and and makes running sideloaded apps you use regularly a real pain.

I wonder what the experience is for webapps like google sheets if your goal was simply to get existing PC workflows stood up.

Can you also acknowledge that 1 and 3 of section 3 are false? It absolutely does not need a PC/wifi to use. Source: I have one on my desk.

3.1 and 3.3 are talking about the Quest Pro's VR Desktop capabilities. We just added extra clarification to make this clear. We don't dispute that the Quest Pro can run its own native VR apps without WiFi streaming.

Are you saying Android does not have productivity apps ? Cause the quest can run all of them

I think they mean Quest native.

And that's why the Microsoft partnership was so interesting.

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