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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

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471 points tosh | 2 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. blensor ◴[16 Oct 24 18:27 UTC] No.41862138[source]▶
Pretty much yes, there are already hints that this will be coming but for the current experience what would be the benefit Quest with battery included is already the same weight as the Vision Pro without the battery. So just add an external battery bank via USB and you have the same weight experience
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2. talldayo ◴[16 Oct 24 18:56 UTC] No.41862527[source]▶
Yeah, as a first-gen Quest owner I got no idea what they're going on about. My favorite feature is how light it feels with the battery included - I can use it comfortably with no wires for 2-3 hours, then take it off and let it recharge. If I need more runtime, I plug it in.

If Meta made new versions of the Quest without the battery built in I think I'd actively avoid it.