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  1. throw03172019 · · focus · HN ↗
    Seeing a person at a coffee shop typing with his fingers on a table and moving his invisible mouse would be…interesting.

    I can see value on a plane. But I’d rather use my MacBook then look like a crazy person pretending to work.

    1. juiceland · · focus · HN ↗
      I’ve used the Vision Pro in public. I don’t care what people think of me, but I did get annoyed at people tapping me on the shoulder and asking about it.
    2. phyrex · · focus · HN ↗
      That's what people used to say about Bluetooth headsets
      1. cmrdporcupine · · focus · HN ↗
        guess i'm old cuz i still feel like it's weird and antisocial
        1. GaryBluto · · focus · HN ↗
          Surely you mean asocial?
      2. walrus01 · · focus · HN ↗
        It's still creepy and weird to have a full conversation on a bluetooth headset in a public place where everyone can overhear your side of it.
        1. ncphillips · · focus · HN ↗
          Isn’t that the same without a headset?
          1. spencerflem · · focus · HN ↗
            No, talking into a phone feels more natural than talking to nothing in particular
            1. Cyan488 · · focus · HN ↗
              Plus when you talk into a phone, your voice bouncing off the glass causes natural tendency to control vocal volume.

              With buds, people just shout into the void... Or the bus...

        2. al_borland · · focus · HN ↗
          Better than the people who walk around using speakerphone… which I see at least 3 people do on every trip to the grocery store.
      3. the_af · · focus · HN ↗
        It still seems weird to me when I hear people seemingly talking to themselves as if hallucinating. It always surprises me until I realize what's happening.
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    4. Apocryphon · · focus · HN ↗
      I’d mostly be concerned about getting robbed while having my vision obscured.
      1. throw03172019 · · focus · HN ↗
        Luckily they can’t steal your invisible monitor, keyboard and mouse.
    5. NBJack · · focus · HN ↗
      I've been that guy, though with a portable keyboard and wireless mouse using my Xreal glasses with a Samsung device in Dex mode.

      It is as close as Ive gotten to the cyberpunk dream so far.

    6. blindflag · · focus · HN ↗
      Wait, I didn't even think about the plane implications; I'd be happy to trade "looking like a crazy person" for being functional on a plane. (Proof of this: I purchased a Pluto Pod for long flights, and that definitely requires habituating to looking very weird on a plane.) This comment is kind of turning me around on this...
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