For starters we're in the middle of a huge financial crisis, so releasing yet another VR set, a 3500 USD one at that, is hilarious. To further hammer in how terrible the timing of this is, we are also amid so many tech bro shit schemes failing. Cryptocurrency, NFTs, you name it. The Metaverse was a laughingstock, Twitter is imploding from Elons idiot decisions, Teslas are literally crashing and burning and all major tech companies have been on the News at some point for fucking with people's personal data and other con jobs. AI is scaring people as much as it is entertaining them. Confidence in emergent technology is at an all-time low. It doesn't help that the promo poster features the most dead-eyed soulless-looking person staring through it at you. People are sick of it. VR headsets were already niche, who cares if it has AR or whatever tacked on? Sure, some rich yuppies will buy it to impress their friends, but they buy anything the market tells them is the next big thing and are a small minority (again, more poor people than ever at the moment)

TLDR this is going to be Google Glass again but this time even more of a flop because now people are poorer and more skeptical of big tech than ever.

  • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    I saw a bazinga comment with the poster's ideas for AR "killer" apps that included an overlay showing where you already vacuumed and showing you a recipe and cooking instructions while making food. Who the fuck is going to spend $3500 and actually wear one of these things for that?

    • facow [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      Getting marinara sauce splatters on my $3.5k headset because I want my recipe to be in a HUD. :anti-italian-action:

    • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      overlay showing where you already vacuumed and showing you a recipe and cooking instructions while making food

      very useful for people with no short-term memory

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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        1 year ago

        No short term memory, but also $3500 and enough of a short term memory to remember they wanted to buy this because of a redditor's hypothetical ideas.

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    • The_Grinch [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I give it 10 days after launch before there is a gross ai "x-ray" clothes remover app.

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    • jabrd [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Imagine a future where people are so deskilled they can’t wipe their ass without a VR prompted quick time event

    • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      cooking instructions while making food. Who the fuck is going to spend $3500 and actually wear one of these things for that?

      3500 dollars for a pair of onion protection glasses

    • VHS [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I can see the appeal of overlays if the glasses were low-profile and transparent. But I don't know who would want to wear these massive goggles to look at the real world through a screen.

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