• r00ty@kbin.life
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    9 months ago

    That and the price is the problem, in my opinion at least. What it can do looks quite impressive I think and has some nice ideas not really done commercially at the consumer level before.

    But, I suspect it’ll be another iPhone. It will rule the roost for a short time and then someone will come out with a comparable product, for noticeably less that will work with other hardware too and connect with other non-apple software.

    But, I guess for those in the ecosystem (who already have big pockets already for this kind of thing) it looks really good.

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      9 months ago

      There’s already competing products just like with the iPhone. If this thing succeeds, it will succeed despite that, not because of it.

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        9 months ago

        I don’t know. I saw some reviews, and in the consumer space at least I’m not aware of a device that is putting stuff in shared space fixed in a location and can make virtual screens with the rest of your vision maintained. It’s these things I expect to be copied and homogenised pretty quickly.

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          9 months ago

          There are apps for the Quest that can do that.

          Tried the Vision at the mall today, though, and it’s pretty awesome. I had an experience I’ve never had in VR yet - when shown heights, my body actually reacted as if it was real.