4 ms·

keeping mine :) I bought it intending to return it, I use it every day. literally have dreams about operating in 3d space now (whether that's good or bad I don

keeping mine :) I bought it intending to return it, I use it every day. literally have dreams about operating in 3d space now (whether that's good or bad I don't know).

peterkos 3y ago
I like the alternative this implies of dreaming in 2D :p What’s your use case? I’d imagine the macOS display extending is wildly cool.
- outside415 3y ago
  I have a couple of different places that I live right now because of RTO (my house, an apartment near my office, a vacation home). My house has the best desk set up, it doesn't make sense for me to reproduce it else where. So at the apartment/vacation home I can have a desk set up as compelling through using my macbook with it. then I have a bunch of apps up in 3d space around it (teams, outlook, photos, safar/spotify, safari/tradingview). I sit on top of Haleakala in full immersion while I work now. as I walk around the house I have different windows open, for intance at my kitchen table I have twitter and another safari browser for hackernews/googlenews. I've also found a fun use for it is to demo it for different friends/friend groups, so I have a little demo I run them through for it taking spatial photos/videos, viewing panoramic photos, viewing spatial photos, then I show them other apps based on what I know about them, NBA app, apple tv + immersive videos, and show them fun configurations for having so many apps open. also around the house it has mostly replaced my doom-scrolling on my phone. my eyes are getting older so cruising around stuff on my phone is getting harder/blurrier. I mostly look at it as a replacement for my phone at home and a complimentary piece to my macbook. still really lacking overall in apps so doing more than I would like in Safari. I really also wish there were more apps to take advantage of 3d space. like imagine health/strava where you can scroll through the run and and it has a 3d map to show you where you went, and charts of a 3d plane with all of your health metrics that you can tab through and move through/select with your fingers. there's a lot of potential here imo.
dgan 3y ago
Do you wear glasses? Do one need to wear glasses when wearing this thing?
- outside415 3y ago
  I have an astigmatism so I actively avoid wearing glasses, I probably do need them though. I do not wear glasses in this device, I just use windows that are often the size of my walls in the VR space. they offer lenses in store by Zeiss I believe, I do not know the details, glasses most likely won't fit with this device.
- jack_pp 3y ago
  You can get lenses with your prescription that magnetically attach directly from apple
  - wkat4242 3y ago
    Yes but I've heard the device doesn't support users with astigmatism for some reason (there's lenses for the meta quest that support it). Maybe the correction messes up the eye tracking? Or the review that mentioned this was wrong.
    - euroderf 3y ago
      Yes, more info about (lack of) support for astigmatism please. I'm not seeing this topic in reviews and in first-person accounts.
      - wkat4242 3y ago
        According to Apple it's supported: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213965 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213965 I don't remember exactly where I read it but I'm 100% sure I read it in one of the earliest reviews. The reviewer must have been wrong and I can't find who it is now. I looked up some of the reviews, but maybe they've retconned their review. I don't know. Good thing is that it shouldn't be a problem for us with astigmatism. Bad thing is I still couldn't possibly afford a Vision Pro :)

keeping mine :) I bought it intending to return it, I use it every day. literally have dreams about operating in 3d space now (whether that's good or bad I don't know).

peterkos 3y ago

I like the alternative this implies of dreaming in 2D :p What’s your use case? I’d imagine the macOS display extending is wildly cool.

outside415 3y ago
I have a couple of different places that I live right now because of RTO (my house, an apartment near my office, a vacation home). My house has the best desk set up, it doesn't make sense for me to reproduce it else where. So at the apartment/vacation home I can have a desk set up as compelling through using my macbook with it. then I have a bunch of apps up in 3d space around it (teams, outlook, photos, safar/spotify, safari/tradingview). I sit on top of Haleakala in full immersion while I work now. as I walk around the house I have different windows open, for intance at my kitchen table I have twitter and another safari browser for hackernews/googlenews. I've also found a fun use for it is to demo it for different friends/friend groups, so I have a little demo I run them through for it taking spatial photos/videos, viewing panoramic photos, viewing spatial photos, then I show them other apps based on what I know about them, NBA app, apple tv + immersive videos, and show them fun configurations for having so many apps open. also around the house it has mostly replaced my doom-scrolling on my phone. my eyes are getting older so cruising around stuff on my phone is getting harder/blurrier. I mostly look at it as a replacement for my phone at home and a complimentary piece to my macbook. still really lacking overall in apps so doing more than I would like in Safari. I really also wish there were more apps to take advantage of 3d space. like imagine health/strava where you can scroll through the run and and it has a 3d map to show you where you went, and charts of a 3d plane with all of your health metrics that you can tab through and move through/select with your fingers. there's a lot of potential here imo.

dgan 3y ago

Do you wear glasses? Do one need to wear glasses when wearing this thing?

outside415 3y ago
I have an astigmatism so I actively avoid wearing glasses, I probably do need them though. I do not wear glasses in this device, I just use windows that are often the size of my walls in the VR space. they offer lenses in store by Zeiss I believe, I do not know the details, glasses most likely won't fit with this device.
jack_pp 3y ago
You can get lenses with your prescription that magnetically attach directly from apple
- wkat4242 3y ago
  Yes but I've heard the device doesn't support users with astigmatism for some reason (there's lenses for the meta quest that support it). Maybe the correction messes up the eye tracking? Or the review that mentioned this was wrong.
  - euroderf 3y ago
    Yes, more info about (lack of) support for astigmatism please. I'm not seeing this topic in reviews and in first-person accounts.
    - wkat4242 3y ago
      According to Apple it's supported: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213965 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213965 I don't remember exactly where I read it but I'm 100% sure I read it in one of the earliest reviews. The reviewer must have been wrong and I can't find who it is now. I looked up some of the reviews, but maybe they've retconned their review. I don't know. Good thing is that it shouldn't be a problem for us with astigmatism. Bad thing is I still couldn't possibly afford a Vision Pro :)