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9secondkox2 said:

slow n easy said:

9secondkox2 said:

DOA until it becomes a pair of sunglasses. 

No one wants to wear a helmet  just to compute. 

The experience is not much different than meta quest as-is. 

Apple basically saw the quest, then spec’s higher, but also went backward with the brick battery that you have to carry around separately. Big whoop. 

As sunglasses, it’s much more the Apple ethos of getting out of the way of your life. 

Most folks carry a phone out of habit. Most weat shades as a habit. Most wear a watch, etc. 

no body suctions a face-hogging, head-strapping thing on their face/head outside of scuba divers. It’s annoying, cumbersome, takes you out of your every day life and can really only be enjoyed in bursts. Not as a continuum of your daily life. That’s why it fails. 

Black pencil or no, it’s not a success. 

Let’s see how that fares once it’s distilled into shades. I’m betting that’s a whole new paradigm. 

What you are describing is not VR. It’s not possible to have VR with a pair of sunglasses. It’s not possible to have VR without the complete sealing out of external light.

Nonsense. The avp forces your face into vr always. Even what looks like pass through is video. 

Nobody want to wear scuba gear suctioned to their faces just to compute. 

It’s a much better solution to have an optional 9 but included) surround for your shades to rest in when you wants to go full VR. And you can remove when you don’t want to be isolated. Sure beats being stuck inside a helmet whether you want isolated VR or not. I imagine most will ne in XR most of the time as it is. 

Shades (with detachable surround) or helmet. Each has trade offs. One is clearly easier to live with. I’m thinking shades fits the mold of getting out of the way and blending with daily life a million times better. 

Wow! All this time and you can't understand the difference between VR and AR. 🤦‍♂️

AppleZulu said:

This would require radio communications other than Bluetooth alone, but it would be nifty if there was an enhancement that would improve the ability to track down your car in a parking garage. 

The current version is fine for locating a car parked on the street, but garages decrease GPS accuracy on a map, and the use of Bluetooth for the final zeroing in generally means you can see the car before ‘find my’ gets a lock on it. 

I’ve found BT + UWB to work better than anything else that has come before it. I also like how the iPhone will auto-pin where you parked your car, but that may require using CarPlay. 

I'm guessing that the new ones will not cause many to want update any of their current AirTags. I do have one that I'll probably get for a keycard so that the AirTag puck doesn't bulge out of the plastic card holder, but that's about it and it's also not a pressing issue.

Anyone use one of the FindMy-compatible Chipolo, Orbit, Eufy, et al. wallet cards?

I don't understand why people get hung up on these tiny devices not being repairable. iFixit clearly goes into it not expecting it to user-repairable, but they do it because it's good marketing for them, it's interesting to see inside, and if they didn't people would be wondering just how difficult it is to do it.

hammeroftruth said:

Is there any pen or pencil made by other companies that can be disassembled to repair?
I haven’t seen any. 

Possibly. Wacom's pens are thicker than the Apple Pencil, and since they go back to 1987 they may very well have been simple enough to be repaired. I looked for a video or website that clearly showed the SD Series pen but I couldn't find one.

MustSeeUHDTV said:

So if you have an AirTag on your keys and you go on a long trip with your friends, will the notifications get really annoying (to your friends)?

No, because you presumably also have your iPhone on your person which you'll access periodically on your long trip.