• ramble81@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Please help me understand the point of the Vision Pro? It’s not VR. And every app and screenshot I’m seeing looks like “let’s throw this window, that you could normally have on your desktop or TV in your field of view”. Are there any mechanisms to have it interact with your surrounding in an AR type manner? Or does it just overlay flat windows on top of what you’re seeing?

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      9 months ago

      Afaik there are only a handful of actual AR stuff right now:

      • Application windows stay anchored to your environment until you reset them. If you put them on top of your desk, it’ll stay there even if you move to your kitchen.
      • When you look at your mac, it’ll sometimes pop a button to allow you to initiate virtual display to your mac.
      • When you look down to your bluetooth keyboard, it’ll show whatever you type in a floating box complete with suggestions.

      Maybe there are more I’m not aware of.

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      9 months ago

      I want it for the virtual monitor aspect. Especially since I have adhd, I think this would possibly cut down on distractions.

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        9 months ago

        Even that seems kinda half ass in this version. Like you think you’d be able to drag a window from your monitor outside the monitor. Instead, it just… Shows your monitor again.

        I am not the target market for this device though. I’m not really sure who is, beyond the diehard apple people.

        I do find it funny how quickly apple pr moves from the “when they do something they do it right” to “well this is first gen so we expect it has some flaws”.

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          9 months ago

          Oh you’re right. I don’t like that you can only have one virtual monitor. I mean it it 4k as large as you want but come on.

          IMHO they don’t “do it right” the first time. They wait until the market is ripe enough, and then fill a hole that no one else has done, or at least correctly. And I don’t even think they’ve done that here, at least yet. But the hardware is very solid, the software needs help.

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      9 months ago

      It’s AR and VR in whatever mix you want it to be. The little spinny dial at the top controls how much of the real world you see vs how much of a virtual environment you see. The bottom end is full AR, the top end is full VR.

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      9 months ago

      Preparation for the future. If you want an actual VR device get an oculus

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        9 months ago

        That’s it, I don’t. I want AR, but just throwing up a random flat window in my field of view without interacting with the environment is not AR. It’s just your monitor with a dynamic background.

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    9 months ago

    I didn’t even know YT clients were a thing yet (aside usual alternatives ofc 🏴‍☠️).

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    9 months ago

    Does it block ads? It doesn’t, I don’t think Google would like that, but if you have YouTube Premium you won’t see ads, just like the website. Honestly, YouTube Premium is like one of the most essential subscriptions for me, it’s so handy to never worry about ads and it’s pretty cool in that it also supports the creators substantially more than if you watched ads. So I dunno, if you can afford an expensive Apple Vision Pro, I’d really consider treating yourself to YouTube Premium!

    O no,… they took him.

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      9 months ago

      Oh grow up.

      YouTube sucks balls, but people still want it and the dev, who made Apollo and is one of the best app makers out there, did what they could to make YT available quickly.

      So now you’re shitting on him personally because he didn’t fulfill your crusade. Get a life or learn to program and get off your ass and do it yourself.

      Jesus, people.

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      It’s not like he can make an ad free version of YouTube and release it on Vision, it would probably get instantly taken down.

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      Google’s TOS forbids any apps that block ads. Enhancer for YouTube recently removed it as well (although it has to be on the Play store).

      Get yourself a DNS blocker.

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    9 months ago

    does google allow stuff like this? i would expect they will try to disable it or simple c&d pretty quickly.