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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

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471 points tosh | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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edmundsauto ◴[16 Oct 24 14:06 UTC] No.41859174[source]▶
I recently took a long flight and brought my Quest device, set to travel mode. It worked great! Pretty much the same experience as this article describes.

One protip, I bought a 512G flash drive and loaded it with content. Then I could pop the drive in and play movies off it. I did not want to deal with needing connectivity for DRM or other server checks.

Highly recommend that people try this out, the next time you travel. It’s a killer use case for VR.

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candiddevmike ◴[16 Oct 24 14:15 UTC] No.41859254[source]▶
Aside from the Meta integration which will always be a non-starter for me, it would be great if Quest and other headsets followed Apple's design with an external battery pack. I wonder if there are/will ever be "dumb headsets" that are powered/ran by a phone.
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1. thecapybara ◴[16 Oct 24 14:31 UTC] No.41859468[source]▶
I have a Quest 2 and a Quest 3 - both headsets allow you to continue using them while they're plugged into an external battery pack or charger, so you can absolutely do this already.

I agree it'd be nice to have an external CPU pack for heat and weight reasons, but we're not quite there yet. The closest thing currently is wireless streaming via a PC running Steam VR, but that's not exactly portable.