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We agree :) Our goal is for the Simula One to be so good that it's the strictly-more-productive choice over a single-screen laptop (and also over most PC setups too). Here's our pitch for why VR Computers can boost your productivity:

- Provide unlimited screens of any size

- Improve work focus & immersion (like "noise-cancelling headphones for your eyes")

- Fully controllable with just a keyboard (with hand gestures, eye gaze tracking, etc)

- Allow for fully portable, multi-screen computing

- Usable outdoors (no laptop glare) in places like backyards, urban balconies, & parks

- Provide more privacy (no one around you can snoop on your screen)

- Compact design takes up less desk space than PCs/Laptops

- Promote better posture & freedom of movement: with a VR Computer (VRC) you can change positions, sit up, lean back, stand, lie down, or even walk while you compute




> Fully controllable with just a keyboard (with hand gestures, eye gaze tracking, etc)

If it is precise enough, this would be very pleasant to work with, to the extent that you describe, a productivity boost over working with monitors and a mouse.

Glancing at the start button, it being detected with no latency and high precision, and then I press say CTRL + ENTER and I get a left click.


Whats the point of being outdoors if you can't see anything?


Fresh air, feel the weather, hear the sounds. Some people can probably crack open a window and get that, but some might need to go for a walk to the park or something like that. It would also be a game changer to be able to take a fully fledged setup to co-working spaces, cafes and so on.

I have aesthetic hesitations toward all this which is really shallow I know, you will probably look like a dork sitting with VR on at a cafe. But imagine where this could lead, if the technology keeps getting more compact or even just popular enough that it's the norm.


That's what the AR passthrough cameras are for!




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