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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by pjmlp on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:11AM (#36254812)
My first try with a VR headset was in 1994, with DOOM.

Since then my opinion has hardly changed that these are gimmicks, and mostly unusable by people with eye sight issues, where already dealing with natural light is an issue, let alone tiny screens a couple of cms away.

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by nologic01 on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:32AM (#36254964)
Circa that time was also (in more professional context) the NCSA CAVE immersive visualization project.

For good measure, this was also the time of the Mosaic browser.

I think three decades is enough to suspect that if there was some unique added value from the VR concept (that goes beyond some very small niches), it would have been adopted more broadly, even with imperfect technologies.

Future developments (~5-10 yr) in other parts of the digital universe may bring use cases that are currently not visible to people with limited imagination. But usually short-termist corporates launching major products here-and-now does feel a bit odd to me.

Who knows, time will certainly tell.

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by aembleton on Friday June 09, 2023 @05:10AM (#36255235)
Pixel density is a bit higher in the Apple Vision Pro. Might be less of an issue.
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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by pjmlp on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:59PM (#36264085)
Doesn't make a difference for light sensitivity issues.
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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by sebzim4500 on Friday June 09, 2023 @07:14AM (#36256141)
Have you actually tried it though?

I would be willing to buy this argument if anyone who actually used the device were reporting these issues.

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by pjmlp on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:58PM (#36264078)
I doubt they would fix issues like photophobia, or high light sensitivity.
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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by sebzim4500 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @09:48AM (#36270447)
Why is wearing this headset worse for light sensitivity than not wearing the headset?
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