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Notable shift in emphasis to mixed reality. I wish they had HDR support called out for the passthrough though.

The Quest 2 CPU was too weak, and while this one will be better the Apple chips are still way out in front there.

The proportion of people in tech I know with a Quest 2 they never use is amazing. We all want VR to work but fundamentally headsets are a bad idea.

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I daily drove my quest 2 using immersed VR for a few months. In the end, the resolution was just not good enough for it to be better than my 3 monitor setup. But I'm looking forward to trying again in a couple of generations.

Big same. I want immersed to work so bad. But the resolution/dpi is garbage compared to even a shitty monitor. It also makes me nauseous but I'd be willing to deal with that if the experience was what I want it to be.

So you were using a Quest 2 for month before you decided the resolution is generations away from beeing good enough? :)

Yes, I knew I would need to live with some annoyances if I wanted to be an early adopter on this. I tried to adapt but in the end it was just too much of an inconvenience. And while my quest 2 is indeed currently collecting dust, I don't think headsets are a bad idea. Just that their current implementations are not good enough for my use case. Regardless of that, I'm optimistic about the future of using an HMD as your main general computing device's display. I'm willing to bet it will be a pretty common setup in 5 years or so.

Many here want/wanted the same thing. It has always puzzled me why. I like to use a piece of paper next to the computer and i also like the look and feel of a nice wooden desk and the sound of a pair of decend speakers. No matter how great the headset, i fail to see it as an improvement except for some very specific usecases.

Honestly, the answer might just be: "Because it's freaking cool!" and I totally understand why that doesn't appeal to you.

The resolution was probably OK, you wanted lower FOV or higher pixels per degree (PPD). There are monitor replacement AR glasses with the same resolution or lower, but acceptable PPD due to their low FOV.

Looking forward to testing the Vision Pro for this usecase. Resolution looks high enough to possibly be The One, and if it replaces my monitors then the price might be worth it.

Immersed are bringing out their own headset next year with 4k per eye for this use case for far less money than the apple vision.

https://www.visor.com/

Could you explain about HDR passthrough? I'm thinking "see real life sunsets in glorious HDR color," which is probably not what you mean.

hdr for the added content no?

It's that rooms, especially sunny ones, contain incredible amounts of variation in intensity, and that failing to capture/display that is at least as big a problem as not enough pixels per inch.

It also helps dramatically if the captured HDR surroundings can be fed on to an envmap for use in the 3D rendering phase.

Oh, that makes sense. Real life has a big dynamic range, so if you're trying to augment that, it won't look right unless it also can cover a big dynamic range.

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