Can’t wait for the keynote. Pissing myself laughing at various highly-paid executives stumbling about wearing skiing goggles will certainly enrich my life!
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Hints at AR/VR Headset: 'Stay Tuned and You'll See What We Have to Offer'
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This is brilliant.
Can you imagine seeing somebody in some form of 3-D dimension? Ultimately, I do think this is where it will lead, is specific features like this. Loads of potential here.
This is definitely going to happen. It’s only a matter of time. Remember the members of the The Jedi High Council? This is the one feature I’m looking forward to the most.
All the trusted and reliable sources/leakers suggest Apple is working on a headset and glasses. They all come to the same conclusion - "We don't know what it can do but we do know it's going to be colossally expensive". They priced the headset at around $3000. I'd be surprised if its any less than 2K.
Smartphones and tablets have pretty much plateaued, improvements are only incremental at this point. Tech companies are desperate for the next big thing to grab consumers' attention (and $$$). VR/AR is not it imo but who knows what will happen in a few years time.
Definitely. Same thing happened circa 2014 prior to the Watch unveiling. “The wrist is an area of great interest to us”
Well this is one way to get people to stop looking at their phones... Not sure it's any better though 
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Ideally you want some sort of small device that clips onto any glasses/shades and projects an image directly onto your retinas. The image could be generated by your iPhone and transmitted wirelessly.
.Ideally you want some sort of small device that clips onto any glasses/shades and projects an image directly onto your retinas. The image could be generated by your iPhone and transmitted wirelessly.
That $3,000 figure is a deliberately planted red herring.
Just as when the original iPad was rumored to come in at $800 or $1,000 or whatever the figure it was — and instead dropped in our laps at $500.
The Apple AR/VR set will start at, say, $1,500 and everyone will be so amazed at how “inexpensive” it is, they'll rush to buy it! Yet, unlike the iPad, they won't find it a magical device with amazingly diverse uses…
But cognitive dissonance will set in and they'll hype their purchase, anyway, talking about how fantastic, incredible,,and “innovative” it is!
As someone who is about to get an iPhone 13 pro max I hope its not worse than my 11 pro (which is pretty good IMO)
That’s why I don’t care about hardware. Just the 1TB on my 13, that’s all I care about.
If the rumours are true, especially the MacBook Pro level computational power then it can’t cost less than 2k base MBP 14. 2.5k seems like the minimum possible price and 3k looks good. Think of it as a MacBook with 2-3 high quality screens, plus some extra VR specific features. For 3k it’s an amazing value proposition. People buy MBP 16 just because that want a big screen. I see no reason why people won’t buy those glasses just because they want multiple good screens.
Unless of course apple will do something stupid, like not permitting to run mac apps on it. Then I agree, 3k is a hard sell.
Maybe on a future episode of the hit TV show SEE on Apple TV starring Jason Momoa, the tribes will discover an ancient crate of Apple VR headsets and they will all finally be able to SEE.
The hardware may definitely be on MBP level but I guess most consumers see AR/VR headsets as a novelty/gimmick. On the other hand, you can do real work (and make money) on a MBP here and now. It's not only the hardware, it's what you can do with it that justifies the price tag.
It'll be glasses and less than $2K.
They all come to the same conclusion - "We don't know what it can do..."
Smacks of a huge lack of imagination.