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Re:Magic Leap One by chrissnell on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @01:46PM (#15972499)
Your post gave me a fun thought: someday, we won't buy desktop and laptop computers anymore. We'll buy hi-res VR goggles and keep our desktop environments in the cloud, using virtual keyboards and hand sensors to interact with them.
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Re:Magic Leap One by Daishiman on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:32PM (#15972910)
The latency issue makes this essentially impossible since anything that's not trivially close to the local network will have upwards of 40ms of latency, making VR mostly useless unless the local compute does significant processing.
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Re:Magic Leap One by goatlover on Saturday December 23, 2017 @04:19AM (#15993540)
That doesn't sound appealing for me at all outside of entertainment.

I'd much prefer a laptop/desktop work environment to wearing goggles and using a virtual keyboard for hours at a time.

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