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    Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

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    471 points tosh | 16 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:48 UTC | HN request time: 1.156s | source | bottom
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    DrillShopper ◴[16 Oct 24 14:17 UTC] No.41859266[source]▶
    I guess the flip side of this is that you look like a fucking dork.
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    1. atestu ◴[16 Oct 24 14:37 UTC] No.41859551[source]▶
    I think that will fade. I don't know if you remember how mocked the airpods were when they first came out ("They look like q-tips"). All it'll take is a few celebrities spotted using one and they'll turn cool in no time.
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    2. ◴[16 Oct 24 16:55 UTC] No.41861264[source]▶
    3. mft_ ◴[16 Oct 24 17:21 UTC] No.41861491[source]▶
    You're not wrong, but I think there's at least a couple of orders of magnitude of awkwardness between the Airpods and the the Vision Pro that will have to be overcome, before the VP becomes mainstream.
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    4. asdff ◴[16 Oct 24 18:09 UTC] No.41861936[source]▶
    airpods at least had the equivocal wired headphones normalizing that look for a decade before they appeared.
    5. Terretta ◴[16 Oct 24 18:46 UTC] No.41862372[source]▶
    Imagine the first person wearing bell bottom jeans. Some folks just DGAF, and next thing you know ...
    6. ks2048 ◴[16 Oct 24 18:48 UTC] No.41862403[source]▶
    I don't think it will pass, but I think subsequent versions will be slimmer and less mock-prone. In 10 years people will look back at the first version the way people look back at the first bulky cell phones.
    7. nine_k ◴[16 Oct 24 18:49 UTC] No.41862413[source]▶
    There were times when going to an office wearing a T-shirt felt crazy, like going to an office while wearing a bikini, or wearing a clown attire, would be now. It changed maybe in late 1990s.

    Things like these change very slowly, then suddenly, once the views of the perceived majority around most people change enough that the people start to see the new state as proper and confirmant, a new norm.

    8. righthand ◴[16 Oct 24 19:15 UTC] No.41862733[source]▶
    Airpods aren’t cool though, the majority don’t wear them nor can they afford them.
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    9. samatman ◴[16 Oct 24 19:44 UTC] No.41863069[source]▶
    You appear to be a bit unclear on what cool means.
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    10. righthand ◴[16 Oct 24 21:27 UTC] No.41864013{3}[source]▶
    Are you sure you’re not conflating cool with elitism?
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    11. kibwen ◴[16 Oct 24 22:15 UTC] No.41864375{3}[source]▶
    Air pods are about as cool-looking as a hearing aid. At best, they're utilitarian.
    12. TillE ◴[16 Oct 24 22:33 UTC] No.41864531{4}[source]▶
    Zillions of people are out there wearing cheap AirPod knockoffs too.

    I don't think any ear buds are "cool", but certainly nobody cares, it's perfectly normal.

    13. DidYaWipe ◴[16 Oct 24 23:57 UTC] No.41865116[source]▶
    I don't recall the AirPods ever being mocked. Why would they be, after years and years of almost identical-looking earbuds being sported in public?

    But long before that we had DoucheTooth (or BlueTool, whichever you prefer) earpieces. Now those were mocked.

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    14. doublepg23 ◴[17 Oct 24 00:49 UTC] No.41865372[source]▶
    You can check out Reddit threads around the launch https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/51yazy/this_is_what_...
    15. SoftTalker ◴[17 Oct 24 03:54 UTC] No.41866265[source]▶
    AirPods also make you look like a dork.
    16. mihaaly ◴[17 Oct 24 06:17 UTC] No.41866901[source]▶
    Depending on your circles. In many doing what a celebrity does means squat, or backfires. Better watch our peers.