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Apple Vision Pro: for me, epic failure
ebastler:
--- Quote from: DiTBho on February 05, 2024, 10:54:18 am ---umm, think about the mechanism between Apple and Youtubers: Apple sends products to Youtubers/Journalists if and only if they respect a contract, which implies, among other things (don't damage the product, don't resell it on eBay/Wallapop/Aliexpress, carefully open the box | don't break it, ...) also NSA-like confidentiality agreement.
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My point was that you may be confusing Non-Disclosure Agreements (which are a common industry practice when providing evaluation units prior to public launch) which the National Security Agency (who are probably not involved).
DiTBho:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on February 04, 2024, 11:46:34 pm ---So an "epic failure", if that's really one, is rather good news
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So, yesterday was my birthday and I spent part of the afternoon testing the Apple VR bought by Ania in the US.
The crazy experience of trying to blow out the candles on the cake, cutting it and eating a slice, wearing that object that brings you a thousand messages in augmented reality.
Nice, but... too many inputs for a simple brain cause even the simplest motor responses such as coordinating the hand that moves the slice of cake towards your mouth while you approach the table with your legs to pour some wine, something very cinematic clunky, and full of glitches, and worse still, using the augmented reality virtual keyboard to reply to messages made me seem so dyslexic that I almost always responded with a default copy&paste ("thanks").
Real-life-use challenge: somehow passed - guess Ania is still lauthing - but...
ummm, after 2 hours I had severe pain in the back of my neck, shoulders, and dry eyes.
In the end she deposited ~ $4,000 into the account of a friend who lives in the US, as nice trick to get around Apple's purchasing restrictions (She is Estonian) , spent two nights in a cheap hotel, and returned home with the "precious cargo" in her travel bag.
Enthusiast, while I shrug :-//
DiTBho:
An interesting thing that Ania discovered this morning:
the battery cable can be disconnected from the battery pack.
It is not glued, there is a small screw to unscrew :o :o :o
Marco:
Apple copying Dyson.
tom66:
--- Quote from: DiTBho on February 05, 2024, 12:12:08 pm ---An interesting thing that Ania discovered this morning:
the battery cable can be disconnected from the battery pack.
It is not glued, there is a small screw to unscrew :o :o :o
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And it oddly (well perhaps not for Apple) uses a proprietary connector. If they used USB-C, it'd work with -any- external battery pack, but NOOOO... Apple have to be special snowflakes about it.
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