But it's just distracting and potentially problematic in a professional context and weird in a personal context with family or close friends.

So, maybe it's useful for the phone calls you make to people that are not for work and are not with family or close friends? Which would be a pretty small proportion of phone calls for most people.

You’re here commenting on every post that shows appreciation for Apple? Cringe.

Facebook doesn't need to be the first to do it. They're positioning themselves to be one of the biggest names in the space in 2030

That's what happened to Tesla and electric trucks.

Announced Cybertruck before it was ready only to be beaten to market by Ford.

Cause it's the only buzzword

Great products, yes.

Cutting edge, hell to the no.

The only somewhat cutting edge tech in the original iPhone was the screen.

AirPods were literally just an iteration on a product type that had existed for years already.

Apple fanboys are seriously the worst.

Now that I Phones have satellite beacons they are probably scrambling to stay relevant.

Edit: I didn’t realize Garmin was making Fitbit watches… my bad.

>By definition, the first mass-market product in a category is cutting-edge

No, that's not what defines cutting edge.
By the time something is mass produced, it is no longer cutting edge.

The iPod was literally an iteration on existing players. It massively improved on storage, as other manufacturers were content just beating the ~14 tracks on CDs a few times over.

>iPhones

iPhone was not a niche product.
It was not cutting edge either, it was an iteration on existing phones removing the mechanical keyboard, which had already been done.

>Smart watches?

Not cutting edge.
Also not really a niche, a smart watch is an ultracompact smart phone with a wrist band. There's no new cutting edge tech in them, they're just incredibly small.

>And earlier, desktops and laptops?

Still not NICHE and still not cutting edge. All of it, iterations.

>I’m old enough (sadly) to remember the pre-iPod days.

Well I am.

>The iPod wasn’t an iteration on the existing mp3 players.

Yes it was.

>It was cutting-edge enough that it birthed a new type of product.

No it didn't.

>Same is true for the iPhone

No it isn't.

>and the same may be true of this headset.

It very clearly won't be.
They're making their own iteration of a niche technology with low chance of success.

Jesus christ you are such an obvious fanboy, and clueless to boot. Please stop hurting yourself.

sounds terrible.

Educate yourself. You sound like a child.

Because you would feel face to face with that cartoon, even if it's an abstraction.

Videocalls only ever feel like they are screen to screen interactions, never face to face. There's just no way to provide that feeling through a 2D screen.

And having custom avatars that aren't derived from your real features can be fun and expressive and allow people to play with identity. VRChat is the perfect example of this.

I genuinely do, but not with the annoying headset tech we currently have. It’ll have to be something as elegance as a set of AR glasses - not too unlike the NReal Air glasses.

The best technology is one that gets out of the way, or blends into your day to day workflow, and I foresee this to be the future.

Another company putting money into VR that will not succeed.

interesting

Microsoft pretty much gave up on this while apple still sees promise.

If I can’t be a fox avatar, fuck em.

But why would you want a carton to interact with instead of the actual person's features?

The Venue 2 is Garmin’s smartest device?

Yeah, really can't see that anyone is actually so eager for this to be available.

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Motion sickness is a problem for boats and planes also. There is no fix. People either need to get used to it or take drugs to combat it. Also, should be less of an issue for AR than VR.

Lol what? I’m no Apple fanboy but denying that Apple was first in these (niche, cutting edge) spaces (especially the iPhone and iPod) is just going out of your way to hate on Apple.

Eh. No thanks.

This comment reeks of cope. Apple, despite their shitty business practices, makes top tier hardware.

They were closer before Meta ran head first into VR spending too much money at once.

Yes, but when a company buys another company then the achievements of the bought company transfer to the buyer. That includes how long they’ve been working on something, things invented, etc.