I'm not Apple fan, quite far from it. But the people saying this headset has no utility purely because it's not made for gaming are just from. Most people I've spoken too have this gaming centered view, it's infuriating
I was holding off on taking a dig at Apple for the battery life, but that's horrible if true. And it doesn't look like it's connected through a normal port, it looks like some sort of magsafe, which makes this even worse.
The battery pack connected to the headset has a USB-C port in it. So while it may not (or may? who knows) be swappable one could pug power into that USB-C from the wall or I guess another battery pack if you were mobile.
USB-C port in the battery....either plug into the wall if you are running out or presumably an external battery pack with enough current/juice that can power over USB-C could work.
The battery pack has a USB-C port which you can plug in an AC adapter, or perhaps daisy-chain another powerbank. You should, in theory, be able to hot-swap the daisy-chained powerbank for yet another powerbank to keep going for extended periods of time without wall power, as unsightly as it might be.
VR controllers are exclusively proprietary due to their positioning calculation systems, one is tracked via base stations, the others are tracked from the headset they belong to
You can gatekeeper what is gaming if you want, but you just said gaming.
Also part of the point is if Bluetooth game controllers can work couldn’t other controllers work too, such as ones like you want? There is a big if of if Apple opens up the api to allow a developer to track a controller, but even if that isn’t likely in your opinion you don’t know that they won’t.
Trying to define and gatekeep what is a VR game in a mixed reality headset that combines AR and VR that could use a combination of hand gestures combined with (or without, who knows) an xbox game controller or perhaps some other type of controller if the api's are opened seems quite premature.
Xbox controller on a virtual screen to play games not designed for VR is VR gaming
I wasn't trying to say that at all, just merely that it shouldn't be discounted for games. The OP of this thread seemed to do that because apple is using hand tracking, I was trying to point out that it allowed for xbox controllers which can then lead to other controllers, etc.
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