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2:39 PM, Thursday, October 23rd, 2025:   Well this came out of nowhere...   ...so a couple days ago I'm watching opening night in the NBA - at a commercial break I check my phone and see that not only did they announce the Galaxy XR (Google's headset) they released it... TODAY. I hit buy now, I buy now... and have local pickup the following morning (yesterday). WHAAAAAAAAAAAT? Of course what follows is a very strange launch story which I cover in the unboxing...     And of course now we're left with whether or not I'm going to keep this. And after a day with it I can confidently say, no, I am not. Although half the price of the Vision Pro, it still leads me to the same place: if it can't replace my work headset (which it could for editing but not presenting) then what is it really for? Quest 3 does EVERYTHING... and honestly it just does it better. And smoother. The whole resolution debate and OLED/LCD debate in headsets is really missing the point: what we have now is more than sufficient. My shit looks amazing on the Quest 3 - even streamed (as long as it's 8k). Does it look better on a better display? Some things do... but it's NOT a tradeoff for how hard it is to put it on someone else's head (the auto IPD thing HAS to be able to be turned off) and I do truly believe the FOV is less on the Galaxy XR - so who cares about the deeper blacks at that point.   So I think I'm done believing in any other headset except Meta's unles it's SUPER light adn has a wider FOV. We're fine with resolution - what we need is a smaller form factor and goodness do we need at least a 150+ degree horizontal field of view. We just do. 110 is the absolute floor. But hey - what a surprising little chapter. It was a fun morning for me and Talya...   Adam