Mastodawn

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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Jack Wellborn 1d ago

@marcoarment Honestly, the retail experience I had was really, really good.

I still didn't buy one obviously, but that was in spite of the excellent retail experience.

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Mieszko Ślusarczyk

@jackwellborn @marcoarment this! The experience was nice, the Apple Store staff was great too, but there is NOTHING that would justify that price point for me.