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Agree, but it’s trivial to add support for bluetooth controllers or keyboards.

This isn’t for in-home use, I believe they were talking about use cases similar to using smartphones outside of home. I am not pulling out a bluetooth keyboard out of my pocket on the street when I need to navigate using GPS or look something up.

Btw, pretty much every AR/VR headset I am aware of these days already supports bluetooth controllers and keyboards. For some keyboard models, you can even have them visible and physically tracked in your VR space (I tried it with Quest 2 and apple’s wireless keyboard, worked like a charm).

I actually was thinking of what people by far use their phones the most for (in terms of what matters to them, and perhaps also in terms of time for many): Text messaging. Having a social life others aren't privy to because it's silent and easy to hide from their eyes.

Keyboards in VR are really bad, and the AVP also doesn't have any ideas there (looking at keys one by one and pinching is extremely "peck and hunt").

The closest to a magic AR solution I can think of is tracking so obscenely great that you can project a touch keyboard on a screenless slab without annoyance. Maybe.

Unless you approximate smartphone typing speeds, silently, it's not going to be a smartphone replacement for any masses.

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