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> In VR you can sit up, lean back, walk or even lay down while you compute…all in a compact form factor that saves on desk space. We believe that in 10 years, nearly every office worker in the developed world will be using VR/AR to perform their work.

Ummm.. "walk"??

Reminds me of that funny Google glass parody video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TAOYXT840

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You probably shouldn't walk outside with our headset on, but indoors, absolutely. Turn on passthrough and off you go.

> You probably shouldn't walk outside with our headset on…

Setting aside that griefers would pull it off your head and destroy it, why not? If you're using it for directions, it seems safer to keep your eyes on the environment than it does to split your attention.

Because it's distracting and fills your field of view. Even when i write something on my mobile I'd stop walking. I tripped too many times trying to do that.

But the video explains it pretty well :)

It's probably safer than looking at a phone, but the most important reason is that your field of view/camera offset vs eyes is different than you're used to and it's easy to get into a dangerous situation.

It was the whole "compute while you walk" thing that's not a great idea :)

I think they mean on a treadmill :)

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