The author seemed to have no trouble wearing it for so long, but I think it would be incredibly uncomfortable after a short while for the majority of users. Wearing my super-light eyeglasses all day every day is eventually uncomfortable for me. I looove taking my glasses off before bed, it’s such a relief, so I can’t imagine adding all that extra weight when I’ve got two perfectly functional monitors in front of me.
And I’m totally in favor of AR/VR/MR or whatever, it just has to be insanely light and comfortable if I’m expected to wear it for more than 30 minutes at a time.
While you’re not wrong overall, eyeglasses do specifically put weight on the bridge of your nose, which sucks. Properly fitted, the weight of a headset should be carried by your forehead, the base of your skull, and other broader and more robust bones.
And I’m totally in favor of AR/VR/MR or whatever, it just has to be insanely light and comfortable
Where tf are my smart contact lenses, I was promised by various scifi shows and books that I would have smart contacts by now 😡
Excuse my French but fuck Apple and fuck their closed ecosystem. I will never buy any of their products.
If some company releases an alternative working on different OSes and based on open standards I will be all in, but I refuse to make a multi trillion company richer.
Good to know. Thank you for sharing.
So you want a product made by some of the world’s most talented engineers and designers, costing untold millions for dollars in R&D, but it should not be made by a corporation? How does that work?
I want a product that I don’t need to use exclusively with MacOS and the moment I want to switch to Linux or Windows to become a paper weight.
Apple is notorious for not porting their products to other platforms, and using closed standards.
If you are okay with that I am not!
It’s Vision OS, not MacOS. You can already install Linux on a Mac, as well as any ARM compatible OS through virtualization:
“Apple allows booting unsigned/custom kernels on Apple Silicon Macs without a jailbreak! This isn’t a hack or an omission, but an actual feature that Apple built into these devices”
What do you think would happen if you tried to install Linux or Windows on a Vision Pro? Assuming Apple was to open up the device, what would that look like?
I made an appointment and tried it at an Apple Store the week it came out. The UI and immersion are amazing, but after 20m my forehead was warm and sweaty and my neck started to ache. Heard the headband that goes over the top distributes the weight better.
Once they figure out how to make it 1/2 the weight and 1/5 the price, it’ll go mainstream.
People will fire lasers into their eyes just so they don’t have to wear super light glasses. Vr/ar tech are not going mainstream. Only tech bros think that.
