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iJustine’s review is just what you’d expect.
…I’d really like to see a video of someone fully editing an FCP project for an hour or two wearing those goggles.
 
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I don’t think that would solve the problem. For one, it wouldn’t be exact enough (sub-millimeter) to match how precisely your fingers can feel where the solid surface is. Secondly, typing on a solid surface without key travel is uncomfortable and unhealthy in the long run. There have been a lot of proposals for surface-only keyboards over the last decades, but physical key travel is still what works best.
In Brian Tong's review of the Djay app, he moves the Djay boards to his actual table and scratches the records on the table.
 
In Brian Tong's review of the Djay app, he moves the Djay boards to his actual table and scratches the records on the table.
Scratching is lateral movement, typing is vertical movement. And I’m sure you’ll still have more precise control on a real turntable.
 
I really don’t understand why people take her seriously. I was falling out of my chair laughing at her excitement over the cleaning cloth.

I guess people overlook the insincerity for the positive energy, but come on; she shouldn’t be in same list as Joanna Stern.
I don’t think anyone thinks of her as a hard-hitting journalist. She’s an entertainer first, who happens to do tech overviews. A different but overlapping list as Joanna Stern since both inform to an extent.
 
Is it just me or are the windows so blurry? I checked TheVerge's review and the VP's screen recording was so blurry. Hopefully it is not blurry when actually using it. Sample attached..

Edit: Added screenshot from Brian Tong's video.

Screen share is 720p

Also, it is likely that foveated rendering makes screen share look way worse than it is on the headset.
 
Regardless of how you feel about the place of VR/AR and being disconnected, some of these design choices just strike me as extremely bizzare. Why make the battery cord non-removable? The demonstrated FOV in the Verge's video review looks quite small as well – why not make it bigger? Why even bother launching with the 'eyes' feature if it works so poorly you won't have your own execs use it?
What would the purpose be of removing the cord from the battery?

One small thing I did find odd was the USB-C hole on the battery is right next to where the cord attaches to the battery. Seems like putting that hole on the opposite of the battery would be less clunky when using the AVP while plugged in to the wall.
 
Did you actually see the verge’s review? Where they actually say don’t buy it?
But it doesn’t fit your narrative…
The verge is big enough to be able to afford to say what they want, Apple can remove them from their list sure, but probably that would cause even worse publicity. The point still stands that these ‘reviews’ are just ads.
 
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These are not reviews. It’s basically adverts, these YouTubers get basically bribed as they know they won’t get the opportunity to ‘review’ future products before their launch should they be less than enthusiastic in their ‘reviews’.
Did you bother to read/watch The Verge’s review? It’s hardly glowing
 
I'm confused. In the Verge review, Niley says there's no way to capture what the headset is seeing — to the point where they have an art director mock up he's seeing. But every other review I've seen so far appears to show the reviewers POV from inside the headset. How are they doing that?
 
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I question whether this type of device is even the direction we should be aspiring to go in
I actually think it’s both underrated and overrated.
On one side there are people who always wear headphones around other people even if they’re not listening to anything. On the other side are people who seem to think the world should not have any literal walls and we should be all up in each other’s lives at all times.
There are times to be with people and times to be alone. And accordingly there are tools that we should share and tools we should use alone. Both are necessary and exist side by side. But tools are just tools—it’s people who decide to use them appropriately or not.
 
Just watched the WSJ review by Joanna Stern.
It is actually a great review - as brutally honest and insightful as anything I've seen.
 
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