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Accidental Tech Podcast

575: Walk a Little Faster

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 121 minutes

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0:00.0

So are we all returning our vision pros as the as the news stories seem to indicate is the big wave

0:06.3

This is what you decide to do to start the show. I was I was saving this and now you're just gonna to drop this bomb right up front.

0:14.0

Yeah, you are you returned yours?

0:16.0

No, of course not.

0:18.0

But I was trying very hard to make it sound believable.

0:20.0

I'm a terrible liar so I don't think I succeeded but I was trying very hard.

0:24.0

No I didn't return mine. I mean truth be told that now we are getting into a topic that I don't think you

0:29.6

intended but I it is exceedingly overpriced it is exceedingly heavy I don't think my

0:36.7

particular nose construction is terribly compatible with it and I'm stubborn

0:40.7

obstinately refusing to use the probably more comfortable two-sided

0:46.8

strap. I'm still on the crank strap. I feel like my particular nose construction is that

0:52.2

all of the weight really wants to rest on my nose and part of the

0:55.0

problem is I've heard other people not complain as much about the nose thing but

0:59.6

complain about the fact that the Vision Pro really wants to sit lower on your face than I think I would choose to naturally put it.

1:07.0

And so if I put it where I think is most comfortable and not on like, I don't know, my nose ridge or whatever whatever I'm sure there's an anatomical term for it but

1:15.2

if I sit it where I want to sit it then it's like please move the headset down it's too high

1:18.9

or I forgot the messages but if you have a Vision Pro you've seen it and if you've seen any of the videos you've probably seen it.

1:23.6

That's the Vision Pro equivalent of your hand is covering up the face ID camera on your iPad Pro?

1:28.6

Yep, yep, yep, yep, exactly it. I could not think of a better analogy. And so, um, so I have to have it ride a little bit lower than I want.

1:35.6

And so for me, all of the weight tends to sit on my nose

1:40.3

unless I really crank the crank strap really tight in which case then I can

1:44.9

transition some of that weight onto my forehead or sometimes my cheekbones and

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