Apple’s Vision Pro headset is a $3500 product designed to isolate you from your environment and strap a screen to your face so you’re constantly making money for tech companies.

When it launches next year, every rich early adopter who puts one on their face should be ridiculed. It’s not a vision for the future of computing we should accept.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/apples-vision-pro-headset-deserves

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Apple's Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed

Tech companies want us isolated and constantly staring at screens because it drives profit

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@parismarx I agree with everything you wrote here, but I would just like to note that there exist a great many people who are already living extremely isolated lives, and products like this, used in the privacy of one's already existing isolation, can be liberating.

I live alone, I have no intimate friends, no romantic relationships, and rarely leave the house. I would never use such a device in the presence of other people, but I am so rarely actually *in* the presence of other people.

@parismarx The problem with this technology is that the people whose lives could be most improved by it are not the people who will be able to afford it.