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Re:Meta Cancels High-End Mixed Reality Headset After Apple V... by lelanthran on Saturday August 24, 2024 @06:20AM (#41337057)
> The "strapping computers to their faces" meme is just stupid hyperbole. It's no more insightful than declaring that nobody wants to stuff a computer into their pocket - when 99% of people now carry smart phones

Depends on how you define 'computer': content creation or content consumption?

Because everyone with a 'computer' in their pocket has nothing more than 'interactive television' in their pocket.

They literally do not do computing on it in any meaningful way.[1]

[1] Maybe they use the calculator. But that's about it.

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Re:Meta Cancels High-End Mixed Reality Headset After Apple V... by giobox on Saturday August 24, 2024 @12:07PM (#41339186)
You are missing the forest for the trees here; what we call the device we strap to our face is neither here nor there and of no relevance to my earlier argument.

The issue is a great many people just won’t want to sit wearing anything at all on their face in a meeting - especially those who may have put effort into appearance of their hair and makeup etc etc as just one of many examples.

It’s also not a “meme”, or “hyperbole”. That is literally what you have to do today and in near term with an AVP or meta Quest etc- strap a heat generating, heavy, sometimes fan cooled (AVP) computer across your face.

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