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Agreed, per their video take.

Didn’t realize how limited the field of view and the color coverage was.

But all the popular reviewers are pretty skeptical. I think when another company offers a less ambitious VR headset they have given them a pass because the market target is more limited. Apple’s not getting a pass. It’s impressive but not magical and there are a lot of unoptimal design characteristics for a general purpose face mask computer.

The travel case is stupid and costly but necessary. Can you imagine buying the travel backpack that can hold it, and then unpacking everything in economy plus, and then having to store it away most of it for a flight, and then repack at landing? Even in business class it’d be conspicuous and bothersome and busy.

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The really funny thing is that people never notice how bad the color gamut of their displays is. The usual way people draw the color charts make it look like there are all kinds of greens you are missing but they are not the green of money or living plants but rather the green you see when you get hit by a green laser pointer.

https://tftcentral.co.uk/articles/pointers_gamut

The charts obscure it but it is reds/purples/blues you are missing, not the reds and blues that occur in naturally lit scenes but rather colors you might see in fireworks or CGI effects. The "Pointer Gamut" of naturally occurring colors is relatively small compared to the colors you might see hypothetically. There has been a lot of progress in the greens for formats like Display P3 but more saturated red and blue primaries are difficult because the sensitivity of the eye drops off and you need a lot more light to get equivalent perceived brightness.

> general purpose face mask computer

I hope this term takes off more than "spatial computing device"

GPFMC

"Hold up, let me take my face off real quick."

facial computing

I would prefer to bring an iPad on the plane.

Depends. On a 2 hour flight - yeah. On a 16 hour flight (with power in the seats) - no.

On a 16 hour flight you can watch the onscreen entertainment, use your wireless laptop, your wireless tablet and your wireless phone. I’ve travelled a bit and usually alternate among them.

But the Vision Pro would need two cables (power brick and battery pack, which is required even when plugged in to the brick) and when you get up to use the bathroom your neighbor will absolutely trip crossing your seat and land their ass on the Vision Pro you left behind.. that you don’t want to wear into the cramped airplane bathroom.

I just take a Kindle or buy a random analog book in Duty Free.

The Steam deck or Nintendo switch are even better than either. You can get good headphones and play real games for 16 hours. And when you need to move they are easy to stow away

One advantage: more privacy with the Vision Pro. Even for innocuous content I feel self-conscious about people seated nearby being bored and watching over my shoulder.

Indeed: better to let them think you're viewing pornography, than to remove all doubt.

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