I kind of want to call “waaaaah” on this take. One could certainly say it’s a great way for consumers to show their absolute contempt for the poor.

But chances are that someone that characterization would fit is someone who bought it because it was new and shiny. And the first ones are going to be expensive until we all figure out what we want and need from such a device.

And yeah, 3k is huge money. But as someone who is neurodivergent and writes music for a living, this seems like an amazing tool to help with focus, that interacts with an ecosystem I’m invested in.

Let’s object to wage inequality that makes these things unreachable rather than expecting them to come out with something that cannot possibly be sold cheaply and be as great as they likely imagine it is.

Think of it like this: hearing assistive devices are made tiny so that people can keep thinking they look cool. But no components that small can give a user the performance they ought to. Too small for good microphones, speakers and amps and feature-rich ultra-low-latency audio that sounds good. So you can have something tiny and limited or big and feature-rich.

I was just thinking of how great it would be to edit audio to picture in this, or to compose with it. Wondering if the forward-facing camera has a reasonable way to show the wearer’s hands on a keyboard other than “turning up the reality dial”, which is soon to be a commonly used phrase, I hope, especially pointed at execs in the business world but also at people who like to see things only the way they want.