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I bought one and was really disappointed - the visual didn't feel as 3D as I expected. Their marketing videos make it look like things really feel like they're coming up out of the board, and to me it just felt like the board was sort of a TV laid flat on the table. Things were 3D only in the same sense that they are on my monitor.

Also some really bad UX stuff - you have to have the glasses plugged into an Android phone or Windows PC. I have a Windows laptop, but the cord to plug in was so short I almost pulled it off the table a couple of times. I Googled, and that was a pretty common complaint that came up, which is just such a silly thing to get wrong.

The controls also weren't that good - when pointing sometimes it'd just lose track of my controller. I tried with a few games and never had a particularly good experience.

Overall, this was one of those things where the marketing made it feel like I should expect a magical experience, and the reality was very disappointing. Thankfully, they have a return policy - it's buried in their site and confusingly worded, but I was able to ship the thing back to them and get a refund.

parent idopmstuff 3 years ago

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