Comment by SkyPuncher
3 years ago
It does and it doesn't.
The cable is really about how it runs down your shoulder/back. It gets caught on stuff and pinched between your body and seat, pulling it off. This is a problem even when using magnetic usb cables or Nreal with a usb-c based phone.
Taking it off is still necessary for anything outside of a trivial task. It's really scary to think about dropping a $3.5k device in the toilet/sink or having it fall off your head.
> It's interesting though you seem to view the fact that it's close to impossible to move your monitors as a plus - that part sounds very weird to me.
In the video, all of the virtual monitors are "perfectly" aligned with the user and the surrounding environment. It looks beautiful, but presents some challenges that I hope Apple has installed.
For example, if you use this at a desk, how do you ensure that the screens anchor directly in front of you every time you use it? Are the just slightly off? Do they read the room and reset when they recognize it? Do you need to "recenter" every time you use the device?
How do you put a TV in the perfect place in your room?
> how do you ensure that the screens anchor directly in front of you every time you use it?
That might link to why they made the otherwise slightly weird way you activate it - by looking at your laptop screen. So it knows exactly where your laptop is, and can position the screens perfectly relative to that.
I found it odd because partly the whole point is that it liberates you from being anchored but perhaps this is part of the reason they did it that way?