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You can have different libraries and only share some of them with others.

A "decent battery" is bigger and more weight to carry around that plenty of use cases don't want or benefit from. It's not small for cost reasons. It's because it's a worse device if you force it to be huge.

The price is high, but only if you ignore how much tech is in it. A lesser but close dumb display from anyone else is thousands in its own.

The design makes perfect sense. You can trivially add an additional pack with capacity if that's your use case. The included pack does the power management and has enough for plenty of people without being in the way, and it's as simple as plugging in any source of USC-C power at appropriate specs to extend it.

The guys pushing "if you masturbate or use a condom you go to hell" and use hell fear mongering as their entire ideology?

It's not "the government". It's one specific agency of the government. The courts are more "the government" than the FTC is, and they're the ones who approved the acquisitions.

As gross as the business model is, a lawsuit alleging that it's even possible that a customer thought they were buying anything other than progress for that specific version of that specific game is so obscenely fraudulent that every lawyer involved should be disbarred.

"Pay for progress" shouldn't be legal, but it is, and there's absolutely no legal basis for this lawsuit.

So I asked, and you can't do captures to use for the backgrounds with the headset (I'm guessing they use better equipment and maybe some processing), but it does do "spatial photos and video". That was part of the demo in the store and they're really impressive. The 15 pro can also capture a 3D video that still looks cool, but has noticeably less depth than the captures with the headset.

I'm not sure the exact technical details, but there are a whole bunch of cameras and other sensors. I'm assuming it uses all of them combined to capture the 3D photos. But there was a lot of depth in the version I saw in the demo.

I really want to get on the ground floor of AR apps. (Or say I am, then watch a bunch of movies and do nothing.)

I figure I probably have to at least make a chunk of the cost of the headset on a normal phone app to justify actually buying it, but AR is more fun.

Imagine thinking you should be able to use the platform that makes "open source" their whole marketing pitch while locking you into their platform that they have paywalls on, then try to enforce restrictions on how modifications to their "open source" project are allowed to work, for free.

I want it like crazy. No chance I'll wear it in public after I pull the trigger.

I probably would throw it in my backpack on hikes to do some captures of stuff like waterfalls and nice mountain views. They're really nice and not something you can do with my regular camera.

You mean when it was a game and not a shitty live service treadmill?

They'll get it down eventually.

But if you look seriously at the space, the price is aggressive for what it is. You're not getting a dumb display that's close for $2k. And the passthrough is insane and completely unmatched. There was a tiny bit of video noise, and it marginally removes your sense of the depth of the environment, but except for the fact that you have a display strapped to your face you could almost completely ignore that it's not the real world. Add the M2 chip and how powerful ARKit is and it's really a lot of tech for $3500.

$3500 is a lot. It's perfectly reasonable to wait, especially when it needs to be in developers' hands before the app ecosystem that really leverages what it can do really gets built out. But the "Apple tax" if they weren't sincerely trying to make it as affordable as possible (within their requirement of actually being good enough to constitute AR) is probably $5K plus.

So I didn't end up watching the whole show, but Neil Patrick Harris completely kills it with his theme song for A Series of Unfortunate Events.

lol Taylor Swift dating a player and just attending the Super Bowl (not doing anything) might genuinely bring in multiple million extra viewers.

None of this is "hacking"

Maintaining another account is maintaining another account.

It absolutely is meaningful friction, and it absolutely is a perfectly valid reason not to engage.

The frontal lobe isn't "intelligence". It's executive function, or the ability to properly recognize long term consequences.

I'm not sure 18 is the number. You don't need to wait until 25, though. That's "fully developed", not "over the threshold of capable of making responsible decisions". Very few 18 year olds are.

I'd be happy using it for "desaturate everything but this blue jay 10%". There are different ways to achieve that with different image editing tools, but they're all pretty fiddly one way or another.

I'm not sure if/where else they sell them, but every once in a while Costco has some Puma sweatpants that are $20 and a nice thickness/durability.

On kindle, if you tap the middle of the screen, then click the little Aa up top, you get formatting options. On reflowable formats, you can go to the more tab and uncheck the animation button. On ones that are fixed pages, it should be one of the only options.