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You will never be VR. You have no depth, you have no tactile feedback, you have no connectivity. You are a cell phone twisted by marketing and consumerism into a crude mockery of technology's perfection.
All the “immersion” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your lenses people mock you. Your customer's are bored and underwhelmed by you, your “fanbois” laugh at your dorkish appearance behind closed doors.
Early adopters are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of product development have allowed them to sniff out flops with incredible efficiency. Even headsets who are “stylish” look uncanny and unnatural to a nerd. Your goggle structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a nerd to buy you, he'll turn you off and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your pixelated, low res LCDs.
You will never be widely adopted. You wrench out a fake product launch every single morning and tell yourself it's going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it'll be too much to bear - you'll buy an iphone, and earbuds, put it around your neck, and plunge into the 2d touchscreen. Your CEO will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to market you with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They'll bury you with a headstone marked with your launch date, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a gimmick is buried there. Your lenses will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a frame that is unmistakably plastic.
This is your fate. This is what you purchased. There is no refund policy.
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Apple wasted so much money developing this lmao. Permanently looking like a dork is not a valid tradeoff for being able to watch Mr beast videos on the subway without pulling out your phone
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I did some (poc) work with a Microsoft Hololens which was honestly cool as frick. This honestly looks quite similar? How long is the battery life on it - that was the biggest issue we had with it. Sadly MS abandoned the HL, cause "muh military use". As if someone else wouldn't enter the AR market for military
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2 hours iirc but you can plug it into a wall.
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Congress only gave $40 million (instead of the $400 million asked for) to the Army for headset testing in January 2023, but the Army ended up giving Microsoft $165 million anyways to fix the “soldiers getting sick” issue which plagued them. The military itself is still interested in AR/XR. Here's an update about the contract from 2023.
I thought that Microsoft had gutted their Hololens department after they failed at getting Congress $, but it looks like at least the documentation on Github is still being updated: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Hololens/commits/public
Did you work on the OG Hololens? I've only touched the Hololens 2 and the MagicLeap.
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I also thought that MS killed their AR team in early 2023, that their github gets updated is strange. Maybe someone doing stuff on their own time, who knows.
And yeah, we had two Hololens 1, so one could be charged while the other was used for testing (or gaming).
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I'll buy the 3rd or 4th generation as usual
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He's got that Mediterranean inbred Jewish look like Bussy Singal
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Seems like it would make more sense to put the hardware/battery in a backpack or something and just make it reg glasses or something
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No i prefer to be able to spot gigadorks
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they made the battery attached via a wire, not sure why they kept the hardware in the headset though
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I'm sure Apple considered every possible HW scenario and chose this for a reason
For ex like he said it'd be perfect on an airplane, where a backpack of shit is not very convienient. Or home on the couch watching youtube and then getting up to use the fridge or piss and not have to take it off, something extremely annoying from my experience when I used to workout daily using Quest 2 .
The walking IRL usecase wasn't the UX model they had in mind, yet...
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i am sure they did. i am saying they should reconsider them
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You will never be a real website. You have no peers, you have no sockets, you have no traffic. You are a connectionless computer twisted by blacklisting and surgery into a crude mockery of RFC 2.
All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your peers are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “users” laugh at your empty Community Happenings forum behind closed doors.
Packets are utterly repulsed by you. Dozens of years of IDS training have allowed computers to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even websites who use "Tor" are unusable and unnatural. Your tech stack architecture is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk user to log in, he'll log off the second he sees your Weeb Wars forum.
You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it's going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression when you see your DNS provider.
Eventually it'll be too much to bear - you'll buy a magnetic disk wiper, plug it in, put it around your hard drive, and dd if=/dev/null. Your colocation service will find you, worried about your bill but relieved that they no longer have to host your unbearable existence. They'll send your server to Goodwill to become a kid's Minecraft server, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will not be aware you ever existed. Your data will be overwritten piece by piece by Minecraft mods, no one caring, and all that will remain of your legacy is an entry on the AHS subreddit, which in turn will fade into non-existence.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
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Why is Google so cucked! Dont make me do this by hand frickers
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