I use the link cable for the convenience of keeping a charge. I use Virtual Desktop (albeit rarely) to watch movies.
As much as I loathe FB and Zuck’s recent caving (and his awful real estate practices (and well just about everything about the man and his empire)), I am proving to be a very unprincipled consumer. I recently bought a pair of gen2 Meta Raybans. Just terrific. Society is doomed.
The only thing with upping the resolution is battery life, but with the usb c -usb c cable you get some charge back
I’ve been quite impressed with how much it charges whilst using it, very impressed overall actually.
have you tried the little pass through shooting game
I haven’t, i wasn’t sure where I would find it.
Mine was preloaded into the headset, so you didn’t need to do the pc link or anything
But one game I can totally recommend is walkabout mini golf and the expansion courses … brilliant mini putting game
yeah but does it have Virtual-Virtual Skeeball?
(You are eroding my resistance and I’m starting to consider eating less on the weekends and saving cash for the Quest 3)
It might be on there, I’ll have a proper look.
I couldn’t play anything that requires standing or swinging arms as im sat at a desk and in a very small room lol.
I bought Half Life Alyx last night in the Steam sale for £15 and played 30 minutes of that and my god it’s so clear and i don’t seem to get vr sickness when moving like I did with the PSVR which is good.
Cool. So much for us being less connected.
I think that I mentioned it in another thread, but when entering my recent FAA Part 107 exam, I had to present my reading glasses for inspection for such devices. Time permitting, let us know how you get on with them.
I’ve been working for 12 hours trying to post a quick 3-minute video. The problem is orientation. It films in portrait. No matter what I do, YouTube converts to Landscape*. It’s such a goatrope. The video quality is fine. The AI is both cool, stupid and, like Mark himself, extremely arrogant and self-assured. I’d recommend a pass.
*I can share it. But you’ll have to watch it sideways. Isn’t that fun!?
Casey’s take yesterday on the subject is interesting. That is, why the VR goggles format fails compared to the glasses interface as a smartphone replacement.
On the subject of vertical oriented video, that can easily fixed in editing software. But it sounds like the headset has the ability to upload to YT?
I so so rarely watch talking-head videos. But because that one was short (and posted by you), I did. And he’s right. I found that I could wear the glasses all day comfortably. I could seamlessly ask questions of AI on occasion. As I said, sometimes it was right. Sometimes it was wrong. It told me with arrogant confidence that Apple has never made an iPhone16 and that the brick in my hand was in fact a 14. It does that sort of thing a bunch. One fun activity was to hold my physical edition of The Economist and let it summarize page by page, which it did well but sometimes buried the lead thinking that a throwaway paragraph was the point. Sound quality is great.
It will take videos of a 3 minute max duration. The front LCD is at full bright while recording and cannot be dimmed. (But it probably can be taped—haven’t tried and won’t). Before buying the things I would probably have felt uncomfortable in front of another wearer. I think I know enough now not to worry.
Also to be clear, these are not the upcoming AR glasses. No display. Just audio and two cameras.
No doubt. So long as that editing software is not called “iMovie”, the only such that I own.
I like the clip where his wife said, “Can you stop wearing those? You’re scaring the children.” Then he put his $2000 device in the cabinet and hasn’t used them since.
Right you are. It looks like iMovie won’t export in true vertical format. I use DaVinci Resolve, but my kids are absolute fiends with CapCut. I’ve been meaning to learn it in order to streamline shot on phone to upload workflow for sports video.
CapCut handles this more flexibly than iMovie:
In short: CapCut lets you pick the canvas aspect ratio first, so you always end up with a true vertical file, with control over whether to crop, add background, or leave bars.
(viewable only on a laptop)
((some might say “unwatchable on any platform”))
Naw, it looks great on a 27" monitor. I’m impressed. They must have some good onboard image stabilization.
But you have a very cool bicycle, beautiful daughter, gorgeous Pitts, and great running dual sport. What a life you live!
Thanks! You too. The bike is new-ish. About 10 years old. Steel. Down-tube shifters. (Friends made fun of that.) But it reminds me of the Schwinn I had in high-school. I could use a lower gear for the monster hill before the Geo Washington Bridge. The ride is about 1:30 round-trip. The only level part is the green bit along the Hudson. The daughter (our only kid) is 2nd year at Barnard. She’s killing it. I could have had her buy the $20 calculator but, you know, as an aging dad you still want to be useful. But gawd! that ride kills me!