Products · Broad category
AR headsets
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with AR headsets, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Eyes must refocus between the glasses display and typing, and the keyboard looks dimmer2025-05-18
- Button activation for side-by-side 3D mode is awkward to use2025-05-17
- Touchpad and small keyboard are uncomfortable, slow typing and pointing for the user2023-05-18
- UI elements too small to read comfortably, so the user must scale them up2023-01-19
- Current buttons, touch surfaces, voice and gestures are awkwardly inconvenient and clunky to use2022-04-20
- Ads would make AR glasses as unusable as news websites while blocking vision2021-08-09
- Ads and notifications would clutter the whole field of view2016-04-19