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Seeing a person at a coffee shop typing with his fingers on a table and moving his invisible mouse would be…interesting.

I can see value on a plane. But I’d rather use my MacBook then look like a crazy person pretending to work.

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That's what people used to say about Bluetooth headsets

guess i'm old cuz i still feel like it's weird and antisocial

Surely you mean asocial?

It's still creepy and weird to have a full conversation on a bluetooth headset in a public place where everyone can overhear your side of it.

Isn’t that the same without a headset?

No, talking into a phone feels more natural than talking to nothing in particular

Plus when you talk into a phone, your voice bouncing off the glass causes natural tendency to control vocal volume.

With buds, people just shout into the void... Or the bus...

Better than the people who walk around using speakerphone… which I see at least 3 people do on every trip to the grocery store.

It still seems weird to me when I hear people seemingly talking to themselves as if hallucinating. It always surprises me until I realize what's happening.

I've been that guy, though with a portable keyboard and wireless mouse using my Xreal glasses with a Samsung device in Dex mode.

It is as close as Ive gotten to the cyberpunk dream so far.

I’ve used the Vision Pro in public. I don’t care what people think of me, but I did get annoyed at people tapping me on the shoulder and asking about it.

Wait, I didn't even think about the plane implications; I'd be happy to trade "looking like a crazy person" for being functional on a plane. (Proof of this: I purchased a Pluto Pod for long flights, and that definitely requires habituating to looking very weird on a plane.) This comment is kind of turning me around on this...

I’d mostly be concerned about getting robbed while having my vision obscured.

Luckily they can’t steal your invisible monitor, keyboard and mouse.

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