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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: 0.204s | 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. nox101 ◴[16 Oct 24 23:39 UTC] No.41864996[source]▶
> with an external battery pack

Why? There's are already 1000s of external batteries. Unless you mean you think Meta should do it so they can charge 4x of any other battery like Apple does?

Quest is also lighter than Vision Pro, even with it's built in battery