Apple Vision Pro

The polemic's core claim is that there is no compelling use case beneath the "AI-powered" marketing, just a plain camera pointed at non-consenting strangers, with Tim Cook photographed in his Vision Pro exactly once as the proof.

Then a reader described pressing a button at the Vancouver aquarium and asking "what's that orange fish?" — and getting an answer — which is the use case the essay swore did not exist.

It accepts X11 connections over TCP, renders framebuffers at native resolution, does MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE auth, and even ships experimental GLX so OpenGL clients work 'as reliably as they did in the 2000s'.

The line the room loved: does anyone else suspect X11 will outlive visionOS?

The one use case everyone names is a giant private movie screen, especially while traveling. Almost no one cites a killer 'spatial' app.

The dealbreakers repeat: weight and neck fatigue, plus text that several owners call 'half-Retina' and unusable for real work.

The sharpest divide is owner-versus-owner on the exact same setup — a daily joy for one, a 10-minute novelty for the next.