“You can’t mumble the message of a pop song in the last verse.”

I’m not super-knowledgeable about VR headsets, but from what I’ve seen the vast majority of existing VR headsets are for gaming, entertainment and meta-verse. It seems like Apple is positioning this first and foremost as a wearable computing device that is more or less a replacement or companion to existing computing…

This reminds me of the time I got drunk and accidentally ordered the shipwreck of the Mary Celeste on Amazon. Goddamn Subscribe-And-Save. I was forty-nine ghosts deep before I could even understand the Amazon return policy on sea-bound ocean-wraiths. It’s not the shipping that gets you, either. It’s the handling. 

Eh. I think the best episodes are the ones that have a relatively happy ending, not because they’re happy, but because he’s not trying so hard to mindfuck the audience. San Junipero and the Star Trek episode are what sticks to me the most.

That sounds like a win-win to me.

Remember when the AV Club was good and people were here commenting all the time and the website wasn’t completely impossible to use without an ad blocker and you could read this because it wasn’t grayed out despite their promise that they would migrate all the old accounts over and it’s been years and I’ve never…

I got a Community notification for this?

The Quest Pro is not for professional use. It is a slightly upgraded version of the Quest 2. I have 30 of the Pro for work, I’m well aware of what it is and what it can do. We bought them because they’re cheap, easy to clean, and durable enough for college students.

And here come the Apple haters who somehow still think it’s “cool” to hate on something that will be a rousing success and an incredibly well-made product. Comme ci comme ça.

This is 100% not obscene for professional VR. The Varjo XR3 starts at nearly double this price and it’s PC VR only. Make no mistake, I still think this is an outrageous price but don’t be confused as to what real Professional/Enterprise VR actually costs.

This nails every single feature anyone would want... from the decade plus ago when it was first rumored, and it does it a decade plus after pretty much any relatively hard core VR-interested person has gotten the chance to be exposed to commercial VR in a way that highlights the vast expanse between what people…

its not a VR headset so no. Gamers are not the target market for this. 

Very cool device at an uncool price point.

They’ll still sell out; there’s a lot more people for whom $3,500 is a chump change than there are units Apple is manufacturing. 

It’s a price for early adopters, but there enough of those (along with enough good will for Apple products) that I suspect this will be successful. There’s no doubt they could build a similar product at a more affordable price point in the future; just look at the iPhone.

Have you read the original fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, you well versed defender of Western culture and history? Have you spent even the time to read a text that’s just 20-page long? Because (SPOILER ALERT) the mermaid fucking dies.

Yes, that’s correct. The negative reviews from botnets in a commonly known type of astroturf campaign are, in fact, bombing by virtue of that being a fact.

u really out here gate keeping mermaids being white?

Meanwhile this comment section contains one person talking about how a remake of an American movie from 1989 is European folklore, one person using the phrase “journalistic ethics” (in caps) to describe user reviews, and one person whose post is “Interesting... So [statement unsupported by fact].”

Whatever their review weighting system is, it can’t possibly be worse than letting randos on the internet determine the score