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The killer app is your current workstation. This thing is worth it alone just by virtue of being able to expand my workstation to an indefinite number of virtua

The killer app is your current workstation. This thing is worth it alone just by virtue of being able to expand my workstation to an indefinite number of virtual monitors wherever I am alongside my laptop. This is possible on current VR headsets, but the resolution isn't there for any of them, including the Meta Quest Pro. This is the first one with resolution enough to push it over the threshold.

kgwgk 3y ago
Your workstation already has access to an indefinite number of virtual monitors.
- colecut 3y ago
  Not simultaneously
  - DANmode 3y ago
    .......I think this is how they plan to stuff everyone back into open office floorplans.
  - kgwgk 3y ago
    You cannot look simultaneously at multiple places anyway.
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dividedbyzero 3y ago
I remain unconvinced that a lot of people will want to spend most of the time they are awake with VR/AR goggles strapped to their face.
- makeitdouble 3y ago
  If someone told me as a kid that I'd spend more than half or my waken hours with a screen in front of me I'd have called bullshit on them as well. On principle if this device was better than our current laptop screens I think it would be a no-brainer. With it being so early in the tech yet, reportedly heavy (why did they think metal was a good idea), and with only so much resolution, it's still hard to justify as a work expense.
- alwillis 3y ago
  > I remain unconvinced that a lot of people will want to spend most of the time they are awake with VR/AR goggles strapped to their face. Nobody suggested that it should be used all day for most people. However, when I watched the keynote, I immediately thought how much nicer it would have been at the peak of the COVID pandemic to be using an Apple Vision Pro for all of my Zoom calls on the living room couch (or the porch) instead of being stuck at my desk with at the desktop.
cassianoleal 3y ago
> being able to expand my workstation to an indefinite number of virtual monitors Can it do that though? In the presentation, they only showed 1 virtual monitor replacing you laptop's screen - essentially just mirroring the screen once. Everything else were what looked like native apps, so likely as restrictive as iPad apps, but in (virtual) space.

kgwgk 3y ago

Your workstation already has access to an indefinite number of virtual monitors.

colecut 3y ago
Not simultaneously
- DANmode 3y ago
  .......I think this is how they plan to stuff everyone back into open office floorplans.
- kgwgk 3y ago
  You cannot look simultaneously at multiple places anyway.
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dividedbyzero 3y ago

I remain unconvinced that a lot of people will want to spend most of the time they are awake with VR/AR goggles strapped to their face.

makeitdouble 3y ago
If someone told me as a kid that I'd spend more than half or my waken hours with a screen in front of me I'd have called bullshit on them as well. On principle if this device was better than our current laptop screens I think it would be a no-brainer. With it being so early in the tech yet, reportedly heavy (why did they think metal was a good idea), and with only so much resolution, it's still hard to justify as a work expense.
alwillis 3y ago
> I remain unconvinced that a lot of people will want to spend most of the time they are awake with VR/AR goggles strapped to their face. Nobody suggested that it should be used all day for most people. However, when I watched the keynote, I immediately thought how much nicer it would have been at the peak of the COVID pandemic to be using an Apple Vision Pro for all of my Zoom calls on the living room couch (or the porch) instead of being stuck at my desk with at the desktop.

cassianoleal 3y ago

> being able to expand my workstation to an indefinite number of virtual monitors Can it do that though? In the presentation, they only showed 1 virtual monitor replacing you laptop's screen - essentially just mirroring the screen once. Everything else were what looked like native apps, so likely as restrictive as iPad apps, but in (virtual) space.