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No shit.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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There's a dude at work who has one and uses it for calls. He says it's for travel, so he can have "bigger" monitors wherever he goes.
But he always has his camera on, and some AI filter that replaces his face so the headset doesn't appear.
And it looks fucking awful. It's at the lowest depths of the uncanny valley. It's a facade that doesn't blink right, that floats around, with a mouth that doesn't match his speech. Its like it was designed to be off-putting.
Wait, so you’re saying he uses traditional Zoom or whatever on this computer with a camera? And then he uses some sort of software to hide the Vision Pro?
And he doesn't use the built in Persona and the meeting apps native on the Vision Pro? Strange.
But you might also be confused and not realize it’s not using a camera and AI to filter out the headset.
Now that you've put a name to it, yeah, he's using Persona.
But like I said, it looks fucking awful.
You should ask him to try a new capture.
You also sound like you’re on the sensitive end of the spectrum with these avatars. I personally get use to them super fast. Especially when in VR with them. But yeah, they are approximations.
I wouldn't recommend anyone buying it, unless you're really rich and you don't know what to do with your money.
Says it all, really.
Buddy just described the target audience
Too bad apple didn't focus on the existing hardcore market and tried to create a new market nobody wanted.
LOL you bought Apple's bullshit. Do you know how much easier my life would become overnight if I suddenly had $3,500 extra dollars? I gotta get a bad tooth pulled tomorrow because I can't afford a root canal. I have to finance the tooth extraction. Being poor in this country is a nightmare. And these idiots are just having buyers remorse over buying a stupid headset for $3,500? They deserve to suffer.
Sounds like the USA
For my VR experience, I just want to have 360 degrees of terminal windows everywhere Iook.
It’s nothing more than a very expensive monitor you have to wear on your head. Even if you think of it as an SDK for some hypothetical future device, Apple hasn’t come close to even hinting at the promise or potential of AR. Not only is their overpriced, over-engineered hardware not up to snuff, the software isn’t up to snuff if taken merely a proof of concept.
I still think that AR is the inevitable future, but not in this form and not soon. I may not even live to see it.
Huh. I like mine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's not a product for everyone and that's okay. It still has the most advanced optics and highest resolution displays you can purchase in a vr headset.
No doubt people are regretful if they only got a head-mounted computer for this amount of money.
When I needed FPV glasses, I got myself a 20 € screen from AliExpress (resolution 800 x 480, this would be 100 € if you wanted 1920 x 1080 pixels), a 7 € Fresnel lens and a 7 € plastic headset.
Some cutting of plastic and 3D printing later, I connected a 39 € Raspberry Pi (with a 4 € memory card) to the back of the screen, taped the whole kit over with aviation grade duct tape (just kidding, ordinary fiber tape)... connected a flexible USB power cable to my 10 € battery bank filled with dumpster-dived laptop cells and a year later, I still fly with them. Nearly everything else has crashed and burned in various ways, but the glasses hold together. :)
For 3500 euros, I would expect to get 2 ground stations with double headsets and 4 drones with 100 km range. :) Or a working car, not a new one, though.
Well, for $3000 less you can have Quest 3 which can do what this headset does better
Na they are very different