I also don't think they know where the technology will end up or what they really need to do to make it a truly useful, indispensable mass market product. But they expect to learn and find out over the coming years. Like they did previously with Watch.
Maybe we're getting reports on the Vision Pro from two different parts of the multiverse or two different timelines
And, that doesn’t require it imaging your house, just inferring from the LIDAR capture. Just need higher resolution AirTags
I’d assume headphones, camera, maybe notifications. Look at Meta RayBans use cases.
FWIW while I have not played with them, I know people who have the Meta glasses that say they are surprisingly compelling. I’m not going to get them because Meta, but these friends highly recommend them, and are not people I’d expect that from.
Well, also the cameras and other sensors, speakers, and various fiddly bits. But those don't weigh nearly as much as the battery, and all the circuitry that makes the AVP a standalone computer, etc.
My understanding is that in addition to the original augmented reality goal, some developers are now aiming to perfect the glasses form factor's ability to display virtual movable windows too, on a par with bigger headsets, both for work purposes and for bigscreen virtual cinema/TV.
I have to think Apple considered that and had a good reason for not putting the processor etc. outside the headset. I have zero technical knowledge but maybe it had to do with latency? I vaguely remember reading something when the product launched that getting latency down required the chip close to the screens, but I may be totally making that up or confusing something else.
I think you're accurately recalling reading about issues with latency when some tasks are offloaded at a distance from a headset's displays, since I too recall reading a couple mentions about that. I just did some searches about this and confirmed it.
Other companies offload only because they HAD to. If they could have provided the same fidelity with performant/efficient processors right next to the imaging hardware, they would have. That’s absolutely the holy grail until someone comes up with a cable with zero latency.
Yup, especially for things like many PCVR games that need high-speed, power-hungry, hot-running hardware that's not yet practical to pack into a headset and especially not into a glasses form factor. Maybe (probably?) that will change at some point. A few headsets and glasses currently offload processing to a wired device, including smartphones, even for less intensive tasks, and I suspect those too will eventually evolve so that future models don't need to be tethered.Other companies offload only because they HAD to. If they could have provided the same fidelity with performant/efficient processors right next to the imaging hardware, they would have. That’s absolutely the holy grail until someone comes up with a cable with zero latency.
