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Apple today announced that it is expanding its Vision Pro developer labs to New York City, New York and Sydney, Australia to give developers additional locations where the new headset can be tested with their apps.

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Vision Pro developer labs first launched in August, giving developers a chance to try out the Vision Pro headsets to refine visionOS apps ahead of when the device launches next year.

The first Vision Pro developer labs were limited to Cupertino, London, Munich, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo, meaning some developers had to travel long distances if they wanted to be able to try the Vision Pro in person. Apple was criticized for only offering one Vision Pro test spot in the United States, for example, as people from the east coast were required to travel all the way to Cupertino.

With a Vision Pro developer lab now in New York, developers on the east coast of the United States will not need to travel as far, nor will developers in Australia. Any developer can apply to attend a Vision Pro lab, but Apple is not reimbursing for travel.

At the Vision Pro developer labs, developers are provided with hands-on time with the Vision Pro headset as well as help from Apple engineers. The labs provide opportunities for testing and optimization for visionOS apps.

Apple has also sent Vision Pro developer kits to some developers, but the developer kits are available in limited quantities and Apple is prioritizing apps that best take advantage of the Vision Pro features and capabilities.

Developers still have several months to work on visionOS apps before the headset launches, as it is set to come out in early 2024 in the United States.

Article Link: Apple Expands Vision Pro Test Labs to New York City and Sydney
 
I look forward seeing what independent developers have come up with for this thing. The ability to show something to the entire range of vision at high resolution is quite a canvass for big imaginations. I hope they can deliver some "WOW!"

For me, I'm just hoping the virtual, super-size screen for MBs works as good (and looks sharp to my own eyes) as demoed at WWDC. A gigantic screen for on-the-go work would be quite helpful for my purposes. IMO: pretty much anything & everything else would be gravy if that one thing really works and looks sharp. I already know it is going to work because the cheaper ones have virtual screens. It's that sharpness that counts... a kind of virtual retina vs. cheap, low-res VR screen resolutions.
 
I'll play the part of the guru's.

It will be in 2024 unless its pushed back to 2025.

That's based on my scientific research and supply chain knowledge of absolutely nothing.
I concur, base on my own scientific research ...

didn't Gurman say there is no interest in these labs?

I am looking forward trying one of those out when the opportunity arises ...
 
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Really?
What features are you so excited about?

If you have some loose change, I can PM you my paypal😂
Photo editing, hopefully with the ability to remotely connect to my Mac Studio from any room in the house if I need more power. Video editing in the same way, but with the ability to have multiple docs/apps up at the same time to reference without needing multiple monitors.
Experimenting with 3D content creation as a future content option for my clients and seeing how it could work it’s way into our business.

On top of that, large scale movies look fantastic and I’m interested to see how games develop. I had a PSVR, and it was good, but resolution/clarity wasn’t great.

Wanting to build a new house also, I am extremely excited at the potential to create a custom house plan and then view it in VR. I am confident that would be possible at some point not too far in the future.

I think Vision Pro has a bright future.
 
That’s nice. I can finally test out my app on real hardware. It’s an app for when you’re drunk and will alert you if your prospect is actually ugly. Just put on an Apple vision pro before a night out of drinking and we’ll make sure you don’t go home to an ugly
 
I could imagine in the future all the glassholes recording **** surreptitiously and making live tick tock videos all day long.
 
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Really?
What features are you so excited about?

If you have some loose change, I can PM you my paypal😂

Hard to read the room here. Are you doubtful of the Vision Pro as a viable product? Is it because of the high price tag? Apple will probably not make any money up-front from selling thousands of these things. They are likely going to be losing money initially... the hardware is that advanced and expensive to manufacture!

They will make money in the long run through software and services.

The Vision Pro will be turning the AR/VR world on its head once it becomes mainstream. Bet your bottom dollar on that.
 
C'mon Apple give us a release date and timeframe when demo units arrive at Apple Stores. I wanna try this thing already.
heard from an Apple Store employee that demos were gonna be in-store by the end of the year, tried emailing MR about it but I’m not legit like Gurman 😭
 
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Hard to read the room here. Are you doubtful of the Vision Pro as a viable product? Is it because of the high price tag? Apple will probably not make any money up-front from selling thousands of these things. They are likely going to be losing money initially... the hardware is that advanced and expensive to manufacture!

They will make money in the long run through software and services.

The Vision Pro will be turning the AR/VR world on its head once it becomes mainstream. Bet your bottom dollar on that.

Totally agree on that. Developers with fertile imaginations will be releasing useful AR apps off the beaten path.
 
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I'll play the part of the guru's.

It will be in 2024 unless its pushed back to 2025.

That's based on my scientific research and supply chain knowledge of absolutely nothing.
You’re going to go down in history as one of the most accurate analysts of all time if this pans out.
 
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C'mon Apple give us a release date and timeframe when demo units arrive at Apple Stores. I wanna try this thing already.

I’m afraid rumors of “early 2024” are too ambitious.

Mid-2024? 🤔

Probably late 2024, in time for the Christmas holiday shopping season (at the earliest).

WWDC24 will probably be devoted to M3 Macs, Apple OS software — including realityOS — and software development and developer tools.

Apple has a lot to work out to make those slick, stagey Apple Vision Pro promo videos we saw match reality.

For one thing, leaked images showed people wearing the device with an additional strap across the head, suggesting it is (currently) HEA—VY!

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And how are people going to feel about the Vision Pro’s tethered battery in its current form? 🤔

(I’m not too concerned about its “high” price tag — Apple has gotten products out the door and into the marketplace before that were pretty pricey, but — being now out in the world — they enjoyed a lot of free, positive publicity and news coverage during the time Apple needed in order to get the price down. Apple PR at first should be, “It’s not for everyone — yet.”)

It seems like the “Apple Vision Pro’s” OS/system software is further along than the hardware.

Make no mistake: with the Apple Vision Pro, Apple has invented a new product category. (I don’t care about its “precursors.”)

But Apple had better hurry!

If competitors’ “Apple Vision Pros” come out before Apple’s Apple Vision Pro, Apple will not be seen as first — and first (not best) is everything.

Just ask Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lindberg, Neil Armstrong (who beat Buzz Aldrin by just 19 minutes, but he was still first!) how critically important being recognized for being FIRST is (would that you could ask them…).

History (and product success) doesn’t reward the better (but second or third or later to do something), it rewards the FIRST.

Being better, but second or third, etc. is nowhere. You MUST be first.

(Be first, not better. Be first, and then become better after — the best!)

Apple announced and demoed the first iPhone to the world on January 9, 2007, but first shipped it in the United States on June 29, 2007, giving Google and Samsung — we now know — 6 whole months to frantically race back to the drawing board 🏃🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️on their very different (at the time) Android OS and copy the iPhone’s industrial design and software as closely as they could get away with.

With the Vision Pro, Apple has invented a new product category, a FIRST — and I don’t care if AR/VR headsets existed before it; the Apple Vision Pro is to AR/VR headsets what the first iPhone was to all smartphones that preceded it. Incontrovertibly, the iPhone changed all mobile phones going forward forever:

“Apple's boast that the iPhone changed everything about the mobile industry has received some support from one of Android's original software architects. Chris DeSalvo, who worked alongside Andy Rubin at Danger before joining Google to build its mobile OS, says that the iPhone's announcement forced everyone on his team to realize that they "are going to have to start over.” — theverge. com, Dec 20, 2013​
And the exact same happened after Apple released the iPad.

The only “serious” competition Apple faces ahead of the Apple Vision Pro’s release is the paltry-by-comparison facebook/Meta Oculus Quest.

But you can be sure that Mark Zuckerberg isn’t busy having his teams hurry advanced proof-of-concept in-house Oculus design prototypes at Meta, he — like Microsoft, Google and Samsung before him — is having his teams copy Apple.

But if facebook/Meta manages to release an “Apple Vision Pro” before Apple releases an “Apple Vision Pro,” Meta will win the crown of being FIRSTand Apple can’t let that happen!

Geez. After SOOOO many decades of it, this “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” thing is really wearing thin…

Copy someone else for a change! 😠
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