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It's such a niche product with no real world applications. Keep it expensive; no big deal.

• michaelt 3y ago
  Well, there's a vicious cycle with this sort of tech. When sales are low, nobody releases great new applications for it. When nobody releases great new applications for it, sales stay low.
  • bombcar 3y ago
    Apple needs to release a killer app. If even they can’t, then they have a serious problem.
  • politician 3y ago
    Only Apple can release apps for this because no one else can justify the lost revenue that Apple takes off the top in fees.
  • asadotzler 3y ago
    Nah, people have been building amazing content for VR headsets since the 80s. i used to use them in arcades and companies toured devices and content across college campuses in the 90s and we've had Quest for a decade with 6 million MAU today so there's plenty of attempts and it all falls short of mainstream value. Useful for gaming and some VR porn and that's about it. No strap-on dorkbox face computer will ever take off for productivity, not as long as half of office workers spend huge amounts of time on hair an makeup to look nice at the office. No chance they're gonna muss that all up to get another couple screens at their desk when they've got desktops, laptops, tablets, and phones already.
    • the_other 3y ago
      > face computer will ever take off for productivity, not as long as half of office workers spend huge amounts of time on hair an makeup to look nice at the office. The hair and make-up thing seems like it'll be a thing. But the main thing is that it's just not a productive interface. It might be, eventually... but I doubt it. There's very little usability gain in distributing most "work" data in 3d like this. Most of us rarely need to track or navigate around three dimensions of data in real time, and when we do, 2d projections are usually enough.