Comment by SkyPuncher
3 years ago
I don't think it's hit people (including me) that this is not just a headset. It's a full-blown computer.
You can take just the device and a keyboard with you to work anywhere.
3 years ago
I don't think it's hit people (including me) that this is not just a headset. It's a full-blown computer.
You can take just the device and a keyboard with you to work anywhere.
Yep. This is huge for those who travel. It’s huge for those who do cad work. And the power available in such a small form factor really opens the door to previously impossible tasks
It seems awfully convenient that the laptop folds down nice and flat. It takes up very little space. Headset like this is still kinda big to carry around with you... Maybe just a preference on my part, but I quit carrying my big can headphones around with me because they were too bulky. I'd never carry around a headset like this. Plus you look like a dick wearing one.
Which is much bigger than a macbook air in a bag, and can do 2 hours at most.
You won’t need a keyboard.
You do. I’m 100% sure that flickering your fingers in the air simple (besides looking like an absolute moron) doesn’t have enough information to accurately type. Also, your arms will fatigue immediately.
If you can position things in AR, you can put keyboard keys down on wood grain and the device can tell where your fingers land.
If you can escape the skeuomorphic trap, many things are possible. A mechanical keyboard is certainly not the universally optimal means of character entry.
Maybe not in this rev, probably not at launch based on the video, but keyboards as we know them are due for an overhaul.
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Eventually, maybe. In the keynote, there was a vague outline of a virtual keyboard, but (unless I missed it) we never saw that virtual keyboard in use. Instead, the demo pivoted to using a paired Magic Keyboard.
How exactly would you replace a keyboard with anything even slightly as productive?
Just lay down in bed and put physical keyboard with touchpad on your legs. Many times I work from airbnb or hotel that doesn't have proper chairs or workdesk or from coworking hotdesk when travelling.
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I probably won’t, but someone probably will. Productive might look quite different.