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This sounds absolutely awful and everyone on the flight will think you're a massive tool. It also costs $3500, people that can afford that just for flights are flying business or first class anyhow. I also don't know how much hand room you need to navigate the thing and personally don't like the idea that the person next to me on a flight could be watching porn, flights are already kinda gross.

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Who cares what anyone else on a flight thinks of them?

My goal on a flight is to spend as little time as possible interacting with anyone else, and then trying to purge the experience from my mind minutes after landing.

A headset that makes it all disappear sounds like a godsend.

You may not care, but social pressure is effects -most- people. If you think you look like a moron to everyone around you, you're much less likely to take part in something. If a "headset that makes it all disappear" is a Godsend...why haven't you already bought the various headsets currently available that could already do that and worn it on a flight? I imagine there are two reasons, it looks silly and because it has no brand value associated with it (like Apple), it looks -really- silly.

Generally because they’re terrible experiences with low quality screens that make me sick.

You’re acting like there’s a high quality experience in this space to be had and the only missing thing is an Apple logo. That is not the case.

The Quest 2 which cost $400 or so has a high-quality screen. I don't know the last time you've put on a headset, but the screens aren't the problem anymore. The problem are the other various fundamental flaws with the concept. In terms of having one in public, I have yet to see one, even this new Apple one, that doesn't look completely absurd. Tim Cook didn't even take a picture with the product on, because it looks ridiculous and is memeable. That is incredibly important, like it or not.

I have used a quest 2. It was… fine. It’s pretty charitable of you to say those screens aren’t a problem anymore, though. Still had screen door. Still made me feel a little unwell. Did it even do pass through? I seem to remember some awful grainy video feed.

We all have different standards though. Some people are already saying the Apple Vision screen isn’t high enough resolution either. Granted, none of them have gone hands on so I’m not sure what they’re basing that on.

Tim not wearing one. Good observation. I guess Mark keeps humiliating himself and Tim gets to learn from that

The idea that everyone who spends $3500 for a bleeding-edge device is surely spending $10k for a first class ticket is absurd.

Business class from Seattle to Tokyo is only $6k these days. That is compared to $1500 in economy though. Even if I could afford this new VR system, I still couldn’t afford international business class.

If I could choose between having THC gummies on a long distance flight in economy, vs first with all this fancy VR gear... ha. No contest.

I know HN is generally people that make decent money in tech, but $3500 for most people is a lot of money, especially for a first-generation unproven product. You are much more likely to find a person in business class that is buying this than a person in coach. That's just a fact. Meanwhile, there is no reason to wear the headset in first or business class because you aren't trying to escape the grim realities of the airplane.

Might as well go all in after you land, get into your Tesla, put it in auto-pilot to home and continue looking absurd driving the down the road.

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