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comment by veen
veen  ·  291 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: For when the nerd helmet isn’t nerdy enough

Personally I'm convinced the walkie-visionie applications like Joanna Stern's cooking are the eyecatchy red herrings of this device. Like the fuckin' gamified vacuum cleaning video - it looks new and cool and we can go ooh and aah, but it'll get old veeerry quickly.

If I'd have to bet my money, I think the best possible future version of this is that it'll be a device for the times when you go 'I want to do something on an iPad, but bigger, but I don't have a big screen'. Really, how often is that?

I still think I want to try it out. And who knows - maybe lying on the couch with a 200" fake screen on my ceiling is the best way to watch Interstellar. But I doubt it's thousands-of-dollars better.





kleinbl00  ·  291 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Like the fuckin' gamified vacuum cleaning video

jesus.

    "wouldn't it be cool if some dipshit who didn't know how to load a dishwasher could stare at it like a moron, his hands full of greasy plates, and beg the heavens for guidance? Fuck yeah Sequoia would be all in on that shit."

Shroedinger's Customer: can't vacuum a fucking bare floor without help, somehow has $3500 to spend on peripherals.