06-08-2023, 03:49 PM
timg wrote:
I think he hit on a big point at the end when he was talking about the avatar in facetime and the dad wearing the thing and taking pictures. That last part would be majorly weird if you ask me.
Personally, I don't see how this will do well until there is something really compelling on it. As it is, it just seems like another way to avoid human contact. how would 2 people watch a mvie together with this thing?? and who wants to be watching the movie by themselves?
Don't think of it as an accessory like a watch or a Meta/Oculus AR device.
As an accessory, this is an expensive toy. As a general computing device, this is very attractive.
It's a computing platform. Your Mac can interface with it, but it can also act completely independently.
So, what do you do with your Mac? Whatver you do with your Mac, now you can do it in an immersive 3D environment with the ability to spread your app windows across a 360-degree field of view.
And from what I can tell, the avatars are amazingly lifelike. If you're sitting next to someone watching a movie together, you'll see them when you turn your head. If you're watching a movie with someone who is sitting 3,000 miles away, you'll see their avatar when you turn your head. I'm pretty certain that I could quickly get used to that.
(They've glossed over the storage options so far. 3D files can get huge. I wonder whether it's got a tiny SSD and relies on cloud-storage/streaming for nearly everything.)