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The Apple headset does look a lot more lightweight and comfortable than most of what we have today - but even then, I just don’t see it.
Even if they got it down to the weight and bulk of actual ski goggles, that wouldn’t actually be comfortable for long sessions compared to sitting at a computer or watching TV (or even using a smart phone)
And ultimately you have to ask what the actual benefit is. The VR/AR industry seems (baffingly) to be moving away from games and towards social/business use cases (the Apple headset baffingly seems to be mosty selling itself as a laptop replacement). Everything we saw them doing with the Apple headset in the demo would be more comfortable and easier to do via more traditional mediums.
And don’t even get me started on Meta who wants us to start working and shopping in VR…
VR has amazing potential for games, but it seems like just when we started to realize that potential with HL:A, the industry just gave up on it. Now-a-days, all the new titles are arcade games optimized for the quest, and hardware developers seem hell-bent on selling these headsets for everything except games.
I could see wanting something like what the Google Glass was supposed to be as a “wear everywhere” headset, but even then it’d be a niche thing for tech enthusiasts
Ask and ye shall receive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT2N5gYGXcI&list=PLu9DCtN-rIM-_xMkEDFimQJixW-cdu89J
I actually have all 3.
A windows PC for gaming A macbook for my laptop An Arch Linux PC/Server that I use for most of my work and that hosts all my services
The “why” for each is probably pretty self-explanatory for each. I’m a firm believer in using the right tool for a given job, and I think Windows has the best gaming experience, Mac has the “best” laptops (for my own subjective value of “best”), and linux is the best for software development and service hosting.
In a perfect world I’d use linux for all 3, but while gaming on linux has gotten a lot better, it’s not quite “there” yet, and I just love the new Apple chips for laptops in terms of battery life, speed, and heat management
Yup, Spez claims that $2/user/month is all they’re asking. I’d have happily paid that direct to reddit if they’d been upfront from the get-go. Instead, I’ve deleted my account and left the site after a decade of contributions. Very sad to see it go, but I’m not going to be like those idiots whose still hanging around on twitter constantly complaining about the way it’s managed
Future instance owners and moderators don’t want users and communities to be able to migrate seamlessly. Mastodon has the same fatal flaw
This is misrepresentative for a few ways.
For one, you can in fact migrate your mastadon account, fairly easily in fact.
For another thing, instance owners and moderators don’t really get to choose whether migration is possible, the code contributors do. I suppose instance owners could start forking their own version of lemmy to make that harder, but ultimately there will always be folks willing to host the “best” version, and so people will just leave