For everyone commenting outrage, a very reddit thing to do btw, why not try reading the very short article and try some critical thinking. Lots of bad habits from reddit have made their way over to lemmy, can we at least try to RTFA?
Outrage seems common everywhere today. The good thing about it is that it lasts five minutes. And then they get outraged by something else. Oh, btw I had prescription inserts done for my quest 2 and the company required a prescription too.
It’s not good at all. All these outrages allow assholes to get away with shitty things. Unfortunately the media treats every story as the end of the world… And then move on after 48h
And that’s why I rarely read/watch news. Usually the signal to noise ratio is a bit better on Reddit because I can avoid the worse subreddits, and I’m hoping lemmy will get there (e.g. I loved the /r/neural* series of subreddits).
This just smacks of stupid entitlement. Nobody is forcing you to buy the product and they’re upfront about what you need to do to get one. I wish there were more hackable/open headsets at a reasonable price (I’m a Linux user, so open firmware is important to me), but they don’t, so I’ll wait until there is. If Apple wants a controlled experience, that’s totally fine, I just won’t buy it.
prescription inserts done for my quest 2
How is that working out for you? I just use the glasses spacer on my HP Reverb G2 but I have considered in the past getting lens replacements if its a significant improvement in some way.
Makes sense. I’m pretty sure many would otherwise give wrong, optimistic numbers for their vision and complain that their $3.5k device is not working properly and is blurry instead.
I guess it makes sense to need prescription data but its weird. Also if you get prescription version will anyone else be able to use it? Will there be swapable lenses for multiple users?
What do you mean multiple users? Everybody OBVIOUSLY needs their own device! And if your eyes get worse with age, you OBVIOUSLY need a brand new device! Swappable lenses, pfft, what is this, Marxism?
Pretty sure the lenses cost extra. I heard somewhere in the region of $800 I think but I could be misremembering
Sure, what’s the issue here? The article doesn’t say Apple is charging anyone for the appointment. This sounds like a premium experience for prospective customers with $3500 to blow that might not want to figure all of the initial setup stuff out themselves.
They’ll take these opportunities to figure out how to make the self-service as smooth as possible, and start selling without an appointment once that’s been smoothed out.
If you don’t know how a 3500 dollar investment works, then the head scan is just a formality, proving that you have more money than brains.