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> for example, sitting on the bus with it You'd use an $800 device (with limited awareness of your surroundings) on the bus?
by nivenkos 4y ago
> for example, sitting on the bus with it
You'd use an $800 device (with limited awareness of your surroundings) on the bus?
- dbspin 4y agoPeople use their 1200 dollar / euro phones on the bus and in the street at night all the time. Not sure what you're suggesting specifically about public transport - but I would never wear a visually occluding headset on a bus in Ireland. But I would wear it on a coach here, or on a bus in Germany, which has a much safer public culture. Providing it had a small form factor, was relatively discrete etc.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoa phone is small, can be easily put away, and can be used while doing other things with limited or no loss of basic spatial awareness; it's not hard to look up from a phone, or put it away. and it's not just the crime angle, it's things like not missing your stop or being aware of the people moving around you so that you're not a nuisance.
- zmmmmm 4y agoI agree with you based on current hardware, but past the tipping point literally everything you say works in favor of using VR with pass through (let's call it MR). These are all in fact the sorts of reasons why I see it as inevitable that this tech will become ubuiquitous, it's only a question of timing.
- coldtea 4y agoWhy not? A surefire way to win the coveted Darwin Award
- robertlagrant 4y agoI would. Having an app on it that tells me when to get off the bus without having to check my phone 10 times would be worth it. Bonus points for the experience being transformed into a Hogwarts Bus journey.
- dizhn 4y agoThat app would work fine on a 50 dollar phone too.
- zmmmmm 4y agoWith some kind of pass through, 100%
- hmoodie 4y agoI would. You think someone's gonna snatch it off my head or something? I wear 300 dollar noise cancelling headphones at stare at my 1000 dollar phone on the bus every day
- sorokod 4y agoIn a self driving Tesla with it? A perfect match and around the corner too.
- SSLy 4y agoI've used my new iPhone on a beaten down bus running between Mysuru and Bengaluru. I'll be fine.