Post AY5rM64FDtogseQk7c by tojiro@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AY5rM4LXccSpXiVWnw by tojiro@mastodon.social
       2023-07-26T16:27:20Z
       
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       Lynx is sending out these emails to Kickstarter backers, which sounds good but they've been in a state of perpetually "about to ship" since January.I really do want them to find some success in this space! AR/VR needs options that aren't from tech giants. It's too bad that the delays mean they're arriving opposite the Quest 3 instead of the Quest 2. Against the Q2 they would have had a significant hardware advantage to hopefully help bootstrap a software ecosystem.
       
 (DIR) Post #AY5rM5P7gmvIp7Bu1g by mcc@mastodon.social
       2023-07-26T16:36:15Z
       
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       @tojiro I bet manufacturing a device is hard.I originally wanted a Lynx in part because I thought it would help me prototype something for the Apple headset while I waited for the Apple headset to get announced.. At this rate it might be possible to get a Vision before the Lynx.
       
 (DIR) Post #AY5rM64FDtogseQk7c by tojiro@mastodon.social
       2023-07-26T16:52:46Z
       
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       @mcc I am eternally grateful that my job involves shipping digital bits and not physical ones. If I had to actually manufacture stuff for a living I'd starve, so I've got all sorts of respect for those that do!I'd still be willing to believe that they ship to all their backers before the Vision Pro is out, but as far as more general availability goes... yeah. Apple may get there first.
       
 (DIR) Post #AY5rM6AcqAv9CRPq4G by tojiro@mastodon.social
       2023-07-26T16:32:54Z
       
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       I'm still interested in Lynx because they've talked a lot about leaning into WebXR, and if the device ends up being nothing more for me than a WebXR dev device that I can wire to my desktop as a substitute for my ancient Vive Pre I'll be happy.Hope they can find more success than that, though!
       
 (DIR) Post #AY5rM6gsuEj0oUVbLk by ondra@social.unextro.net
       2023-07-26T17:45:31Z
       
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       @tojiro @mcc There's a livestream* planned in 23 hours and Stan said that won't come before some devices will be already shipping to 1st backers. The question is how many will be in the first batch, of course. :)* https://www.youtube.com/live/VmjF4JItR-o