I should add that I do use it as a laptop screen adequately for brief periods, maybe 45 minutes. But it doesnâ(TM)t really make sense to me to use it rhat way when the laptop is already sitting in my lap.

  The advantage is that you can do things on your laptop without removing the AVP. That eliminates the need to swap devices. â"e.g., âContinuityâ(TM). But itâ(TM)s not really my go to laptop external display⦠Immersed app might change that if I can have 5 screens on my MacBook. That would be cool. They say itâ(TM)s been submitted to the App Store⦠so itâ(TM)s available for a subscription soon.

This is just my experience. If your vision is perfect, you might experience it differently.

Maybe one issue is generation loss. You take the output of the laptop and map it to a plane in a 3D environment, then you manipulate that plane in a sphere, then you distort the entire thing to correct for optical issues with the compound lenses, then you donâ(TM)t have the same quality as the original laptop output.

But thereâ(TM)s probably a multi-factor solution involving all of the above components and maybe software can sharpen things with the VR equivalent of Microsoft ClearView (invented by Steve Wozniak for the Apple II). So thereâ(TM)s a chance Apple can tighten up Vision OS and make it viable on this generation of AVP. Also, maybe itâ(TM)s just my eyes and yours are better? Will you use the Zeiss inserts and will they be a perfect diopter correction for you or just an appropriate correction?

https://www.hypervision.ai/app...

Spend more money on AirPods Pro. Download an app called Cinephile, lie in bed, stream Star Wars Andor in 4k on a 100ft movie screen. Then tell me that you are still sad.

There is no doubt this is expensive, but I compared it to the cost and space consumption of very large screen TVs or 4k laser projectors. Its a great choice if you don't have a place to build a (good) home theater and don't want to run wires everywhere. Its well suited to people who travel a lot, or live alone, or perhaps are stuck in senior assisted living/military barrack/container ship, etc. where it could enhance your free time.

I don't think any VR device on the market is going to be a mainstream product due to weight and expense (in that order). Apple Vision Pro is so far ahead of the other offerings that its the most likely to evolve into the mainstream product.

Apple still has room to improve the hardware in many ways. Most important is that its not high resolution enough to use as a second monitor for your laptop. Text is harder to read than on the laptop screen itself. This is a big disappointment. Also, the requirement to use iCloud keychain is a fail. iCloud anything is a fail. Other apps like Split Screen and Immersed are coming along though, they don't require iCloud.

The device is slightly heavy to be used as intended and it hurts the nose when worn by some people. The field of view is competitive but if it were wider, that would be great. The internal reflections on the optics is a small nuisance in certain apps like watching bright videos on a black background.

Apple will devote a lot of time to the software which is promising, amazing even, but unfinished. VisionOS could do so much more and needs refinement. Its not buggy, its just lacking a ton of things that you would expect to be there after using iOS.

Apple Vision Pro might be the most high tech consumer product that I've ever used. Its unquestionably amazing. There are numerous times (per day) when I laugh out loud at how incredible it is... the immersive environments like Hawaii and Yosemite, gimmicky apps that float 3D objects n front of you with photorealism, immersive video, video games on your ceiling, Inspaze (weird but intriguing).

Watching movies in bed where the weight is not a factor is a killer app. Its stunning. Immersive video is also stunning, but making an immersive video worthy of an Oscar is very hard. The best apps are definitely yet to come.

There still isn't enough software available to justify the expense for most people. Apple must know this because they are really pushing you to be inspired to use iPad apps. Apple is, perhaps wisely, devoting no space to AVP apps on the app store so that the media cannot attack them on this front. When the apps arrive, Apple will definitely have a very obvious AVP presence on the App Store.

If cost is not an issue for you, and you want an amazing home theater, definitely buy Apple Vision Pro and AirPods Pro.

I keep mine at 80-100% for years. No problems. Whatâ(TM)s your best practice?

What about libraries of Congress? How many books can it hold?

The verge says 92% P3 color gamut. Thatâ(TM)s pretty darn good even for a flat screen lcd on your desk. Sure you can now get affordable full P3 but we are spoiled. Nobody had anything this amazing on their desktop 10 years ago.

We will never get there if any of these new technologies run on Windows.

Microsoft doesn't innovate, they buy license or steal technology. They are a "technology bank". Even the CEO says "We could have innovated, but we didn't". Thats true throughout the history of the company. They bought Halo, Flight Simulator, Teague made the MS Optical Mouse, and Bing Chat is a reskin of ChatGPT. Windows was stolen and most of its iterations were additional theft. So to think this outfit will actually sit down and figure out how to make a unique and popular product is a fools errand. Not only is the culture not there, the business model doesn't support that kind of product design. Never, and I mean never, has Microsoft actually cared about the user... its always money before all else. They have zero empathy for their users and misrepresent their products as easy to use.

PS. Slashdot needs to implement a character encoding detection algorithm that can automatically identify the encoding of the comment text and convert it to UTF-8 before displaying it. This would fix the apostrophe rending problem.

Iâ(TM)m disappointed that the summary doesnâ(TM)t mention Home Assistant which is by far the best home automation system. Yet they mention Apple Home Kit which is abysmal.

RMS, is that you? lol

The leather is most likely not from cows but from African wildebeest. So adjust your discussion accordingly.

People should not put up with this. When you buy into the cloud, you don't own the off switch... and in this case, the on switch.

Generally true, the Democrats aren't able to be 'left' because the Republicans in the House and Senate block them on every socialist effort. However, Biden has had a huge success at boosting manufacturing in the USA by pushing through the Inflation Reduction Act. Many gigawatts of solar module factories are coming online. Many wind turbine factories. The USA is putting hundreds if not a thousand gigawatts of new power generation online. Plus EV factories, battery factories, and geothermal, etc. The IRA is going to dramatically change America.

My county bought about 8 acres of private land to expand the landfill. This was expected to last about 20 years. Amazon boxes are filling it so fast that it will only last 3 years. Millions will have to be spent acquiring more land and lining it with landfill technologies. Amazon's system is not sustainable at all unless more cardboard gets recycled!