Marco Arment1d ago

The $3500 face-covering, world-isolating, anti-social, uncomfortably heavy 3D computer headset with clunky external battery, limited optical quality, awful text input, awful voice input, primitive pointer input, a locked-down OS, almost no software, almost no content, and no good way to share it with anyone else in the household was held back by… poor retail training!

Yeah, that's it.

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@marcoarment Agreed that it's unlikely a fault of retail training, but after trying one for a few weeks I'd love to have one even if it didn't get a ton of use. It’s probably my favourite way to watch movies (for example) and would be worth having just for that…but the price is so so far beyond what I'm willing to pay for the utility it provides.
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