This is an article about another article, some top tier journalism. They’re right about the external display though. I’ve yet to see a positive comment about it, seems like just a weird gimmick that drains the already short battery life.

This has got to be peak Apple and a solution in search of a problem. You know how to fix the “human connection” problem? Take the stupid thing off when talking to someone

It literally takes like 2 seconds to lift it up to your forehead. It’s literally no different than taking off headphones when someone is talking to you. I’ve had multiple high end earbuds and Bluetooth headphones that have had audio passthrough and while it’s great for ambient sound it’s terrible for hearing voices while also listening to something else. It’s way better just to take them out/off, talk to someone and put them back in.

In the video I’ve seen of it, it looks terrible, like I can’t imagine they actually decided to put that feature into production, it looks nothing like what they showed off in the first trailer. And even if it had looked right, it doesn’t seem that great a feature to be worth the extra battery drain and cost of putting extra displays on the front. It would’ve been more useful to just let the users put their own image on the display, like a mask or just fake anime eyes or whatever the fuck, anything but what they ended up with. I really hope they come out with a cheaper model that just does away with that whole feature altogether.

Going to take a guess that Apple realized VR isn’t happening this generation, didn’t want the embarrassment of canceling it, so they released it at such a high price point that only a relatively few rubes would buy it, so when they abandon it there won’t be enough people to complain and make bad press out of it.