1) being just as good as multi-monitor setup for real work
2) cost not being insanely high
I would dearly love to try one but the cost to me means investment, not toy.
I am hoping they keep investing in VisionOS and when it meets one of those criteria the software will be _really good_.
as long as this is a giant piece of kit that you need to wear on top of your head, it's not going to be adopted by the masses.
But what about attention? Your attention is going to be split between two tasks, your work and walking. Your eyes are going to be split too. You’re going to end up walking into walls.
Why not just stand up from your desk and take a walk to clear you head? I find that enormously beneficial. I don’t need to have an omnipresent screen strapped to my face for that.
The key point here is "while working". That is the distraction, not the mere presence of things in your eyeline. If I strapped a laptop to my chest and walked down the street while reading through a codebase I'd be distracted. Having that in helmet form instead doesn't seem like it would make a dramatic difference?
But really, it's going to depend on how the user configures their workspace and what work they're doing more than what device they're using.
Or tripping and falling while wearing your expensive headset.
I actually cancelled my order of the BSB2 because I decided that I like having a camera to temporarily see around me when I'm moving out of the safe area. They responded to that by basically saying 'yeah a camera would add some amount of extra weight and we're trying to cut as much as we can'.
But it seems like a super awesome device if you're not moving around or you know you have tons of space.
Apple instead has you strap an entire Macintosh to your face and then refuses to even give you a shell on it. It's a complete failure of imagination in my opinion.
Not quite there yet but I'm intrigued - I'm enjoying reading about it and appreciate the people taking the hit to help Apple figure out exactly what the real product is.