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I enjoyed demoing my friend's Vision Pro but I regularly found myself displeased with the gesture controls. Once the novelty of interacting with the demo features wore off, I found myself thinking that the device was best suited as a monitor replacement. To that end, I would absolutely need to use a mouse and keyboard.

I also wonder if Apple's decision to eschew any special pointing or peripheral device in favor of hand tracking was the best idea. If I owned one of these things and used it for casual internet browsing, I would much prefer some little handheld accessory so I could press buttons without having to gesticulate and make sure my posture was correct so that the cameras could pick up my hand movements.



Minority Report style UIs look good in movies. Use them 8 hours per day every day and they're just tiring.


I noticed two things very quickly, my arms started getting tired and I was never quite sure if I was holding my hands in the right place to have my gestures get picked up properly.


> I was never quite sure I held them in the right place to have my gestures picked up by the cameras.

That's okay, I'm sure Apple will try a flat keyboard with no tactile feedback soon :)

They're making noise they're aiming for thinness again.


Yep my daily use for this is just using it as a mac os x external display


Genuinely asking — do you work outside an office a lot and/or travel with it?


Don't work outside a lot, but do travel with it. If you mean travel while wearing it no, because the fact that it's a video camera makes me uneasy about it possibly shutting off at any moment and rendering me blind + the low battery life. I have worked out in my office gym wearing it and that was nice




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