Unless materials science advances to the point where a display like the Vision Pro weighs as much as a pair of glasses, I don’t think there’ll ever be mass adoption of wearable VR beyond anything more than a novelty, for exactly the reason you stated.

Wearing something heavy on the front of your face is simply not a pleasant experience.

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pmontra 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The weight is important but it's only a part of what's wrong with those kind of devices. Wearing something that hides their face is something that people do at Carnival or because they must. It's antisocial. It creates a barrier. It isolates from other people. There is no chance it will become something people will do together with other people not wearing the same device.

	▲	nkrisc 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed, that’s the other big reason I didn’t mention: most people don’t want a screen on their face. They don’t want their face covered, they want to see out the window or just what’s around them. I have never seen someone wear a VR headset in public that wasn’t part of a mall VR novelty attraction.

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Geee 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Beyond 2 is 107 grams. The new M5 Vision Pro is 750 grams. It's easily doable, but Apple deliberately makes them heavy for some reason.

	▲	layer8 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		107 grams is still pretty heavy. Regular glasses are 35 grams or less. My sunglasses are below 20 grams.
	▲	nkrisc 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		107 grams is still too heavy. That’s four times as heavy as my glasses.
	▲	sleepybrett 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		the steam frame is apparently 440 grams.
	▲	numpad0 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Vive Flow is 189 grams btw
	▲	asadotzler 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Beyond 2 has almost none of the sensor suite, no eye tracking, no meaningful compute, no pass-through video, no inside-out tracking, no gesture control, and requires two to three entirely separate units set up around the room to do any outside in tracking, yet it still weighs 4-5x what glasses weigh. Just the displays and lenses will outweigh glasses considerably and there's nothing to strip back when you're down to display and lenses. Throw in a chassis and head strap and you're pretty far from glasses in weight and ergonomics.