I love that they fully embrace the "sitting at the coffee shop with my VR headset" aesthetic. I'm totally ready to support this vision and preorder one and let my freak flag fly at my local coffee shop!
I love that they fully embrace the "sitting at the coffee shop with my VR headset" aesthetic. I'm totally ready to support this vision and preorder one and let my freak flag fly at my local coffee shop!
To each, his own.
To me, the videos of the guy sitting in the park surrounded by trees and birds and nature, but completely blocking them out with his headset is dystopian. The world is wonderful, and if I have to work in it, I prefer to experience it, not pretend it doesn't exist. I say this as someone who regularly does my work on a laptop at a park.
Your vision of blocking out the existence of all of the fellow human beings at the coffee shop is, again to me, similarly dystopian. What's the point of even going? Why not lock yourself in a closet and program a pretend coffee shop to display in your goggles? Coffee is cheaper at home, too.
It has AR capabilities, so he isn't "blocking the existence of all fellow thing-ama-boppers": You are just choosing to redefine "blocking the existence" to you own ends
I will say that this is almost a compelling use case for the Founder's Edition outward-facing LED display... being able to set it to "Interrupt Me!" vs "Do Not Disturb" could be pretty useful for guiding the rest of the world on how to interact with you.
I also love the fact that the guy can't drink his coffee because it clashes with the headset. They should have had the actor order a drink with a straw.
They do fully embrace it! I almost laughed at the comment:
> It can sometimes just feel weird working on sensitive or private things out in the open.
... all while the GIF next to it seems to have people glaring at the weird person with the VR headset on. Clever marketing hidden way down there. But who knows, maybe this is the future if Zuck throws billions at it.
Yean unfortunately I would not use this thing in public, I think it would just get stolen. I have a $2K camera (body only) that I'm afraid to use in public, seems silly I know.
But I think I'll try to use my Index more see if I can get into that idea of using VR for work.
I hope they figured out the blurry edges of text when you don't look at it just right, maybe that's a lower resolution display issue. I'm interested in the concept but it's definitely expensive for me at the current cost/mental mindset.
The blurry edges is both an optics and display resolution issue, and also potentially a fit adjustment thing.
Our optics are currently in prototype production but we'll have the first units in a few weeks. Can post some through the lens shots then and check for any issues like that.
