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It’s not great as an external display, since the experience is like sitting very close to a massive TV while wearing steampunk googles. You have to turn your head a lot, and eye-tracking is broken for a lot of sites in Safari (eg accidental downvotes on HN).

I don’t think that’s a dealbreaker - as long as the device can actually act as a standalone computer.

But it can’t, at least not for developers. It’s much closer to an iPad that only runs 10% of the apps you want. Maybe this is sufficient if your job only requires communication, and not, like, actual work.

So you end up with an expensive, socially awkward accessory to your MBP, which quickly gets left at home, because it doesn’t really do anything better than your existing devices.

(The one use case AVP handles well: watching a movie, in bed, alone. Which is kinda bleak.)