On: New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, ...

[netizen-9748]

It might be better with AR, where you still get the ambiance but with virtual monitors.

[ketamine__ → netizen-9748]

So moving your head a lot? You would look like a giant weirdo, right?

[jayd16 → ketamine__]

Pretty sure the giant headset is a dead giveaway. But just like airpod stems, it'll be a status symbol if Apple deems it so.

[phist_mcgee → ketamine__]

People 50 years ago would have said that about people who aimlessly slide their thumb up and down a glass screen on a device the size of a deck of cards.

[ctdonath → phist_mcgee]

50 years ago people were busy staring at slices of dead trees while experiencing detailed hallucinations.

[JKCalhoun → phist_mcgee]

(I still say that)

[ghaff → netizen-9748]

I have no idea how that works with AR overlaying monitors on a physical worldview. So you're writing something overlaid on the view around the coffeeshop? The idea of AR is more to give a HUD that provides information about what you're looking at.

[psyc → ghaff]

AR is commonly used to insert solid objects into the real world. See Pokemon Go and most HoloLens games. And the HoloLens app where a virtual dog lives in your house.

[bathtub365 → psyc]

HoloLens is not able to render opaque objects. They always have some level of translucency, and the darker the colour of the object, the more translucent it is.