not really. plenty of ideas involving eye tracking and hands.
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Apple Cuts Vision Pro Shipments as Demand Falls 'Sharply Beyond Expectations'
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That's my thought as well. The value for the price is a big issue (in my opinion). I can afford it no problem. But I can't come up with a use case that makes it WORTH that $3500. To me, a MacBook that costs more than the VP is a more worthwhile spend.
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I have the quest 3 and there are some great developers behind apps like immersed, virtual desktop for multi screen viewing in the headset etc and having tried them, its excellent for my needs. With the quest 3 being updated frequently, (like watching 8k VR youtube clips now), i tend to use it more for productivity plus lots of games on sale etc plus xbox. Hoping to demo the AVP when it comes to Canada just to compare but yea, the price is going to be the issue esp in other territories and seeing the response from the US launch and adoption, it might not take off like apple might want.
It was 1M at one point, and they had to cut it down due to production difficulties:
Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans
Initial hopes of 1mn shipments in 2024 launch year dashed by manufacturing problems
The currently reported cuts don’t seem to be related to manufacturing issues.
How is this news? The lower figure of ~400,000 has been “known“ for a while now.
Edit: It is a very strange thing to disagree with a literal fact. For weeks, if not months, articles on this site and others have reported the revised ~400,000 sales figure. I’ve spoken to friends about this figure. But yeah…
Edit: It is a very strange thing to disagree with a literal fact. For weeks, if not months, articles on this site and others have reported the revised ~400,000 sales figure. I’ve spoken to friends about this figure. But yeah…
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So you say rumors at the time were 400k and you decide actually the number will be more like 750k. That really doesn’t make your predictive capabilities appear in any better of a light.
Completely false and non sensical. Provide proof of your statement!!
"No One"????? Beyond gibberish. Diabetic?
There you go. Problem solved!
Those lack the necessary precision both spatially and in the time domain for satisfying gaming.
I am so excited about AVP and do believe it’s the future yet I also completely understand this.
When this is clocking in at the price of a MBA or M3 MPB for a regular version and the pro version is around the price of the 14 to 16 inch MacBook Pro with pro silicon, I think it will do much better
When this is clocking in at the price of a MBA or M3 MPB for a regular version and the pro version is around the price of the 14 to 16 inch MacBook Pro with pro silicon, I think it will do much better
Apple has released sufficient devices so far to know that the apps make the device, and a user base makes developers make the apps. I don't think they see its current state as a flop when they priced it so high.
It hasn't even launched internationally yet
It hasn't even launched internationally yet
Trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist and priced it ridiculously high. Certainly seems like impressive technology, but we don't need that. Cut the price in half and maybe more people would bite. I have a PSVR2 for my PS5, it's really cool, but I don't like using it for more than an hour at a time and like everyone else, the novelty of it has worn off. So now it's just an annoying step to add for when I just want to relax and play a few games.
It’s a $3,500 novelty that has no practical use and it makes people sick. Nobody wants it.
not really.
I mean, I'm not going to give away my ideas, but there's some good, fast paced game mechanics in certain popular (now kinda dead) FPS/RTS games that would be absolutely perfect with eye tracking and hands
They were counting on current iPhone users to buy it, aka "sheep". I saw so many arm chair analysts saying if only 1% of iOS users bought it, it would be a success. It doesn't need a killer app because of the ecosystem. But people failed to realize is the best they could have done was 1% of current iOS devs.
Does cutting the price in half suddenly make up for the fact that it's wildly uncomfortable to wear and use for more than a few minutes at a time? Or the fact that its tethered to the wall? Or that it's entirely world-isolating? Or that it has no real passthrough but instead video passthrough with latency? Or that it runs baby iPad apps?
I don't think the price is really the problem. It's the fact that it's a bad product.
It was entirely a Tim Cook gambit that aimed to capitalize on all the good faith and loyalty Apple has built for the last 20 years. It failed.
A literal killer app could be an experience that plays out during assisted suicide sessions in countries where it is legal?
What they need is a virtual segway app. That will change the world.
hopefully tim Apple won’t fall off a cliff while wearing it.
This seems to be the problem with everyone that's running everything these days. Whether it's politicians or businesspeople. The people with means seem to forget that the majority of us are scraping by. CC debt is at an all time high, and inflation is killing everyone who works for a living.