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im an apple enjoyer with disposable income, i bought because my brother worked on the foveated rendering, but goddamn it’s so heavy that if i use for >2hrs i’ll have neck pain for >2 days. it’s neat and fantastic for chores and cooking if i wear for 30min at a time but super impractical for me to actually use if im not speed running exactly one task

I've been interested in VR for a while and would be interested to try out a headset I could actually work in, but personally my interest in the Apple Vision Pro basically disappeared when the Steam Frame was announced.

It's lower resolution, but I think it would probably be sufficient for light work, and I'm not really interested in the pass-through camera features of the AVP. The real differentiator though was that the steam frame will also work with my existing computer for gaming, and I think it's likely to be much more hackable than the Apple Vision.

> why not?

For me it's nausea and motion sickness. When my ears don't sync with my eyes, my brain calls bug(), and it doesn't end well.

I need a new couch more than I need an AR headset, for one. $3,500 is a lot of money for a glorified devkit.

PrisonOS. It isn't a computer. They control everything to take 30% sales and monopolize the ecosystem including controlling your whole body.

You can get the user's head position using WorldTrackingProvider, that's enough for xeyes to follow you across the room.

There's even a sample app close enough

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/visionOS/placing-e...

Indeed, it's annoying that there doesn't seem to be an Apple-approved method for customizing the outer display.

Thanks, that looks tempting! Shame about the monochrome camera, but maybe I can use an add-on camera to colour in the world.

Steam frame is out soon and should be the ultimate Linux friendly headset. It runs real Linux and Valve is big on “it’s your computer to use as you please”.

Thanks!

it’s too damn spooky. i know they rolled back or caveated some of the language after the uproar but i certainly would like to travel to the EU without any kind of anxiety about “do my open source apps mean im an EU felon if i forget to check github issues for security issues”

I guess it’s easier to find a testflight link if one is set up, or just to create a new account altogether, and sign in to it temporarily.

Just that easy! /s

It would be fun to teach poodles how to fly in 3D