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855 points Philpax | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 17:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Insanity ◴[12 Nov 25 19:11 UTC] No.45904681[source]▶
This is going to be an instant buy for me, and my first VR device ever. I've used the previous Steam VR headset over at a friends' place many times, but never bit the bullet to get one myself.

The fact that this can run standalone, doesn't have a bunch of wires dangling from it, and is pretty much a fully working Linux box makes this am almost on-brainer for me.

I do _hope_ the price is reasonable though, if it ends up being like Apple VR I might not buy into it immediately, but I'm hoping for a reasonable $1000 max price.

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vunderba ◴[12 Nov 25 19:20 UTC] No.45904853[source]▶
I can't imagine it exceeding ~1k USD - they've got to at least keep it reasonably competitive with the Meta Quest which is around half that.
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1. lynndotpy ◴[12 Nov 25 20:31 UTC] No.45906152{3}[source]▶
I imagine there are a non-negligible amount of us here who looked at the Apple Vision Pro with interest, despite its $3,500+ price tag, only to find out it can't meaningfully be used as a standalone development device.

Only question is if 2160px is enough.

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2. daemonologist ◴[12 Nov 25 21:22 UTC] No.45906916[source]▶
I'm also very interested in this use case, however I suspect 2160 square is going to be great for gaming but insufficient for serious work. It's very comparable to the Quest 3 (lenses too), which is kind of on the level of a giant 1080p monitor.