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> Essentially like a lot of other people I’m wondering “how many of these clunky ugly things could they sell?” But thinking that maybe they know that too, and t
by Someone 3y ago
> Essentially like a lot of other people I’m wondering “how many of these clunky ugly things could they sell?” But thinking that maybe they know that too, and they’re working toward something more compelling.
For the ‘clunky’ I think they’re just betting on Moore’s law (in some interpretation) keeping up and batteries getting more powerful in the next few years, so that they can shrink the device and its production costs.
IMO, that is a safe bet for batteries, a bit less so for the electronics and even less so for the mechanical parts.
And what’s considered ugly can change fairly fast, if the device turns out to be useful/entertaining (which it IMO will be) enough to warrant its sales price (that, I’m not certain of.
- tomaskafka 3y agoBut mainly, if you know the use case, you can ship iphone-equivalent device with the sensors needed, not an expensive miniaturized laptop. Vision Pro is an user research platform.
- Cacti 3y agoyeah. people really have a hang up on VR and AR, but it’s almost entirely simply because the electronics and power aren’t there yet. once it is, it will almost already be game over, because… i mean literally everyone eventually will have one. it will be the most significant compute platform in history. you can see this immediately btw if you book some time on the expensive industry AR and VR devices. but even those aren’t any smaller than the Apple device, for reasons of physics.