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SF techies are partying with Vision Pros. Are we surprised?
While a face computer may open up limitless creative possibilities, it doesn’t always make for easy conversations with strangers.
At Shack15’s soirée, Reibman noted the difficulty of trying to read his fellow partygoers’ facial expressions while their eyes were sheathed by the Pro’s opaque lenses.
“It was almost like during Covid, right, when everybody started wearing a mask,” he said. “It’s like, they’re talking to you, and you know they’re emoting behind the mask, but you can’t really see it.”
Konrad Gnat, a software developer and startup founder who attended Lowenberg’s CATS party in February, said he only felt comfortable bringing his Vision Pro out because the invitation to the party explicitly told him to. While he’s amazed by the device’s capabilities and hopes to create innovative new work in “the medium, like da Vinci,” he wouldn’t have adorned the expensive piece of hardware under different circumstances.