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Bought it at launch and use it a couple dozen times a week.

For me, the killer function has been doing display mirroring with my Mac and leveraging the environments like Mt Hood or the Moon as a way to get into a focused flow. I love the idea of windowing in a virtual space, but the there is the same feeling of limitation that I get with this device as I get with my iPad. I've used it to capture some VR photos and videos of family, survey the house to identify the source of a water leak, used it for a couple workouts, to play some Xbox games in bed without waking my wife.

Weight only seems to be an issue for me at the 3h mark or so, but at that point I am taking a break. My eyes don't seem to be effected so far and the only visual quality issues have been either due to pancake lense physics or fogging up when the device is cold. App quality has been okish for the most part. I periodically check the app store for something new, but so far nothing that feels incredible. I'll probably buy a MetaQuest Pro after this just to see what that is like

I'm ultimately waiting for the ultrawide enhancement they teased earlier this year and hoping they add a few more environments.




  same feeling of limitation that I get with this device as I get with my iPad
> visionOS is a mixed reality operating system derived primarily from iPadOS core frameworks [wikipedia]

Lessons:

(a) never launch new plaforms without jailbreaks

(b) never disable jailbreaks until the best use cases found by hackers have been sherlocked into platform's core functions

(c) never derive $NEW_THING from $PREMATURELY_FROZEN_THING




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