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[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’ll buy the VR headset if, as well as streaming games, you can also play video/mirror your desktop. I know that’s not the market they’re going for, but it seems to me that those are the main use-cases of VR headsets aside from gaming and to my non-tech way of thinking it doesn’t seem harder than streaming a game.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

play video/mirror your desktop

They have demos of those things in the trailer. Apparently the pass-through is black and white, but it supports peripherals, so adding a color HD camera to the front to pass-through HQ video while desktop working is completely feasible. It is also just a linux computer, so if Valve doesn't develop the software for it, someone will. Essentially kicking the (very tiny and limited) vision pro market out from under Apple.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Vision Pro isn't available outside of North America, has barely no apps and doesn't support gaming, so I don't know how Apple expect this to become a major product for them.

The frame fixes basically all of those issues, much wider availability although still not global, supports games and it's basically a PC so you can edit an Excel document in VR if for some reason that's what you want to do, has controllers so you're not relying on finger tracking exclusively, and actually has a decent store of content. Oh and the battery is both larger in capacity and more sensibly designed so that it's actually part of the device rather than this weird dangly thing you always have to have.

The only downside is an inability to allow me to see my office at the same time. It's not like the vision pro lets you actually keep the laptop display on anyway so being able to see it isn't a huge advantage.

It would have been nice if it had colour pass through, but I also don't really care that it's not present.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Their streaming system works fine with desktop apps, and it already works with their VR setup on different headsets.

I've streamed desktop to a different headset. I was able to also do stuff like mounting an app in a picture frame on the wall of a little VR house.

Using the video player on desktop while streaming was a little jank, but since this is a proper desktop I imagine it'll be easy enough to switch over and use a normal video player without streaming another computers video player.