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I can use mine as a console to my 70 4K tv and play Metro Exodus and it looks great. Or I can take it to work and use it as a handheld or connect to my second monitor. I can also use keyboard and mouse.

Numbers are a bit off, for example an rpi4 will idle around 2.875 watts and peak around 6.4 watts ( https://linuxhint.com/power-consumption-raspberry-pi/ ) compare this with a NUC NUC6i5SYK that idles around 10 watts and peaks to around 50 watt ( https://www.legitreviews.com/intel-nuc-nuc6i5syk-skylake-mini-pc-review_181093/4 )

Let’s say you are at idle 80% of the time and peak for 20%, should be around 18 watts for the nuc and 3.58 watt for the rpi4. Typically if you are running some sort of service you will need to run this 24/7, and let’s take an example electrical cost (mine) of 24 cents per kwh for electrical with distribution fee. That’s around $3.11 per month or $37 per year for the NUC or 62 cents per month / or 7.44 per year for the rpi.

Now don’t get me wrong there are applications for both but with how many various systems I already have it’s not a insignificant difference depending on application.

Interesting. I'd like to see this in conjuction with AR!

The steamdeck can play red dead redemption 2, spiderman, and god of war with no issues at all so actually it can play fairly recent AAA titles.

They bought a Stanford student's startup for an insane amount of money about 8 years ago, which became FaceID and motion avatars. This will be the next step of that using the phones front facing sensors to map the movement in the room. $100 bet.

Only a year? That’s even worse. If you want performance geared handhelds, they’re out there. Those also cost twice as much. Like the AYA neo.

Yep. It's really annoying when society learns a new buzz word. Doesn't matter if they're incorrect. They'll use it anyways.

I don’t think VR is the way to go for Apple. Their next product needs to be revolutionary. A new first for everyone. I just don’t see it with VR…

If you're only looking at the cost of the Quest.... Then yes... But VR headsets can get really expensive...

Nah, it really couldn’t, but there’s no point in arguing bc you’re weird

If you have an nvidia GPU, Moonlight is a better option (until nvidia kills the streaming server).

Well, I didn’t actually know this. But it lacks a few things

1. Being a hologram that would just appear in front of the person you’re calling

2. Avatar follows your movements

3. I don’t know if it’s full body or not, but if it isn’t, then this too

This will likely depend on who the customer ends up being once they start sales.

If they sell in large quantities to a company like Hanger, then the price per unit goes down. Assuming this will be used more than just on-site gait training, that also factors into how much insurance agrees to reimburse.

Historically, insurance approval for electric-driven devices has been tricky as you have to demonstrate a need for the advanced orthoses and often have the physician, PT, and CPO, document why this device is warranted over simple, traditional devices like a walker. It's a bit like explaining to old people how email works better than horseback mail... and why this new-fangled tech is more than "experimental".

And then when it is denied, you have to go through appeals.. maybe a couple times! And then after a couple of those, you can start a more productive conversation with them directly to argue your case.

Something tells me nobody is going to want this unless they somehow managed to make AR/VR contact lenses, in which case that would be cool as hell.

But…you can do this. In FaceTime you can make yourself an “avatar” or a Memoji character you’ve designed.

It’s not a big deal for Apple to animate a live conversation. Have you ever used Animoji‘s? They’re not the same but they’ve had that technology for many years

I'll admit, I'm a little confused, FDA "Food and Drug Administration", how is the exoskeleton a food or a drug, why does the FDA have anything at all to do with this? I mean, obviously they do, but does this mean they are now the Food and Drug and Anything Medical Administration?

But at least you’ll be sexy for once!

I feel the exact opposite way. Apple makes excellent products that rarely rely on stupid gimmicks like “full body avatars.”

PS3 could run those. Switch is like Ps2.75 then. It still keeps surprising me how awful it runs games. The ugliness of Assassins Creed 4 made me sell our switch. Wife and I are very happy with Steam Deck.

I’d say it’s closer to the PS4/Xbone than a Switch. You can play Elden Ring on the Deck.

If anyone can, it is Apple, for good or ill.

It hasn’t even been one. It launched in February 2022.

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