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I think regular glasses with a HUD will be the next great thing. Powered by the phone, or even a watch (in a pinch). Intelligent, that anticipates stuff.

Cheap, comfortable, useful. I'd line up now.
 
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Maybe these are actually the Apple glasses, just in the bulky, expensive, early prototype form, and 20 years from now the Apple Vision Pro will just be a pair of 500 dollar ray bans.
And I might try it then, if it's become useful too.

But fwiw, I needed glasses young, and wore them all the time other than sleeping and bathing. After my cataract surgery, I no longer need to wear them except for 2 or 3 hours a day (driving and when I need them for eye protection where I work), I don't want to EVER have to wear glasses all the time again!
 
Apple should make a cheaper Vision model without personalization and allowing to wear prescription glasses (no need for inserts) just to watch 3D movies. Just for that. That is what most people want.

It’s called the meta quest 3. You won’t get a lower cost vision pro. And at the price that “most people want” it wouldn’t be what Apple showed off.
 
To be fair they said the same thing about the iPhone, but I get your point. I think it's a slow adoption strategy. The issue I have with it is that it's so inhuman and isolating, which is very un-apple. I would never wear this unless I was by myself. I guess that's what happens when your only emotional relationships are with a machine, like Tim

To be fair they really didn’t say that. They took one look and their stomach dropped. Google dropped whatever blackberry like device they were doing. Back to the drawing board. I mean it’s like some of you are rewriting history. Or weren’t there for the first iPhone event.
 
Yeah, the having to pay a fee (of who knows how much) just because I have a prescription is so annoying. I'm sure it will also be non refundable. And when your vision changes (as it does when you get older) you'll need brand new inserts. I'll be hoping they do this via software in Goggles 2.0.
If this is so annoying to you, there are two other options:

-wear contacts
-get laser eye surgery
 
I think we are a long way from AR glasses that are good enough to more useful/convenient than a smartwatch while simultaneously being close enough to the form factor of traditional glasses that people will be willing to wear them all day.
I fully agree here. People keep dropping this as if it’s a simple concept that is a mere years away as if AR tracking isn’t one of the most computationally intensive things a computer can do right now, all having to run on a motherboard that never gets hot to the touch and with tiny batteries to fit in a comfortable pair of glasses… Pure science fiction for a long while.
 
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You bought a Mac lately? Costs aren't coming down for that market.

If you consider the fact that Mac prices have not gone up with inflation for a couple decades, costs have technically come down a lot. If you spent $2499 on a 15” PowerBook G4 20 years ago, that’s the same as ~$4000 today, but the 16” M2 Pro MacBook Pro starts at the same price.
 
I don’t think Tim is the best brand ambassador of Apple. But Vision pro is like the first Tesla. Expensive, not for everyone and defining a new category. Tesla 3 and Y are now the best selling cars in the world. I nonetheless believe that Vision pro will sell its first million easy even at this price. Can’t wait to see the aVision (without the pro) which will be define following what apps are standing out on the first two years of the pro … Competition is already working on their version …
 
Who does Cook think he’s fooling? The cost of this supposed “Aha” moment is wearing head gear that empties your wallet, makes you look like a geek, isolates you in a manufactured world and appears to have no especially compelling use case so far?

I’d submit that most of us had the “aha” moment the second we saw Tim’s Newton being used by that single dad to creep on his own kid’s birthday party.
 
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I just realised that people don't necessarily have to hand out 3500$ right away. Paying in installments will make the product much more affordable.
Honestly, I think the biggest issue here is production yields: as far as we know, only around 5/600 thousands units can be produced a year. Considering that production has begun a few months back, and that there are still a few months before launch, we can assume less than 500 thousands units will be ready. To me, that sounds waaaay too few, especially if customers will try it on at Apple stores and will be amazed.
 
I think regular glasses with a HUD will be the next great thing. Powered by the phone, or even a watch (in a pinch). Intelligent, that anticipates stuff.

Cheap, comfortable, useful. I'd line up now.
The necessary technology for that doesn’t exist though, and I don’t expect it will for at least the next decade or so.
 
The necessary technology for that doesn’t exist though, and I don’t expect it will for at least the next decade or so.

That's conservative. Things do seem to move along though. We shall see. I will not hold my breath (or line up).
 
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