Again, yes. We don’t know. Early 90s PDAs were all unviable, early 2000s “smart” phones were unviable. Even the original iPhone was essentially unviable, it wasn’t until better cameras, the App Store, high speed mobile data, and more were added and price fell even more that smartphones took over. But none of those developments could have happened if Apple or Android waited for all of them to be ready to release a gen 1 product. This is a gen 1 product. Likely closer to MessagePad 100 than even a palmpilot, iPod, or 2007 iPhone. But without putting it out there and seeign what works and what doesn’t, what features people use the most, what they don’t use, what they wish it did better, no further development is possible. It is a viable product because apple has hundreds of billions in cash to burn and is smart enough to see that the likely next huge frontier for computing interfaces is AR. They could lose 100 billion on this over the next few years, or even spend so much that they actually have unprofitable quarters, and it is still likely to pay off because IF it works, AR replaces every other computing and display interface we’ve ever developed.
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Can’t wait for the key note. Tim Cook will be on stage and he’ll take out a pair of glasses from his shirt pocket and put them on. Similar to the MacBook Air intro. Probably not, but this tech is destined for that eventually. And after contact lenses. Not seeing the possibilities is absurd. No pun intended.
I think Omnimax is a poor way to show VR. It makes everything look far away. It will give motion sickness to some people if the camera moves. 99.99% of people watching the keynote will not be watching on an Omnimax screen anyways.
I think the best way to show VR without having someone actually try on the headset is to show the VR/AR experience from a third person perspective, like Valve does here, with the introduction of the first modern consumer VR system with motion controllers:
Is this a sex thing? It sounds like a sex thing. Go meet people in real life, it's not that hard and I promise it's more fun than any facsimile.
If only! I'm assuming this will be a glorified a dev kit so there are apps for the glasses in a couple years, but maybe we'll get some kind of preview of the real thing. Honestly not hard to imagine that Apple design and 4 years of tech improvements to the HoloLens concept could make something appealing today, Though I'm sure it's not shirt pocket sized yet.
I'm excited, as long as something happens, it's the first truly new apple product in at least 8 years, and possibly the first real game changer since 2007. Not expecting to buy it right away myself, but I do hope glasses can be a part of my next apple purchase in the 2024/2025 range.
That’s actually one good use for this technology, there are many people who are disabled or for one reason or another cannot just go out and “meet people”.
The shortsighted people out there just don't seem to understand
that this is a paradigm change for the Human race coming in early June,
a whole new thing, just like iPhone did in 2007.
Instead of paying four-figures for a phone or watch with imperceptibly more speed,
a slightly better camera, weird menu options you will never use, etc., etc.
every other year, this is an entirely different animal.
On Tuesday June the 5th 2023, VR will instantly become something
Bob & Sally Bestbuycustomer will know about and will want, and will pay for,
via Apple's new installment payment plan options.
🙂👍🏻♥️
that this is a paradigm change for the Human race coming in early June,
a whole new thing, just like iPhone did in 2007.
Instead of paying four-figures for a phone or watch with imperceptibly more speed,
a slightly better camera, weird menu options you will never use, etc., etc.
every other year, this is an entirely different animal.
On Tuesday June the 5th 2023, VR will instantly become something
Bob & Sally Bestbuycustomer will know about and will want, and will pay for,
via Apple's new installment payment plan options.
🙂👍🏻♥️
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I wonder if the eye tracking and foveated rendering that is expected on this might be able to adapt to your visual alignment. Perhaps this might allow you to see in 3D. That would be interesting.
Even if it's priced roughly the same. There needs to be a defining experience unique to this product.
I think that this version of the headset could be like the Lisa. Expensive, low volume, limited in odd ways but providing learning and a basis for the much more consumer friendly Macintosh that came after.
continued comparisons of the AR/VR headset to the iPhone is just plain wishful thinking , nothing else.
Back then, the world started to move to cellular phones, started to get introduced to the internet and social media - that's the wave the iPhone was riding, improved on the experience and continues to do so ...
now what does a regular consumer want to spend money on for a capability they know nothing about? unless I can do something so much better than today, why do I want to spend that money?
Having said that, for business I see a lot of use cases (not virtual meetings though) but Apple is not a real presence in the biz world
Back then, the world started to move to cellular phones, started to get introduced to the internet and social media - that's the wave the iPhone was riding, improved on the experience and continues to do so ...
now what does a regular consumer want to spend money on for a capability they know nothing about? unless I can do something so much better than today, why do I want to spend that money?
Having said that, for business I see a lot of use cases (not virtual meetings though) but Apple is not a real presence in the biz world
If someone losses an eye (god forbid), or it is damaged, then this tech is almost useless as only 2 eyes give us the ability to see stereophonic 3D and no outside tech can fix that.
I almost lost an eye a year ago because of an infection.. had to go an eye surgery, really scary stuff. Puts everything in perspective.
I thought about it and i think it´s probably the right call to release the headset like this.
Ultra-high-end is perhaps what the VR/AR industry needs to generate enough hype and motivation to develop the killer applications.
in any case, really excited about the upcoming presentation
Ultra-high-end is perhaps what the VR/AR industry needs to generate enough hype and motivation to develop the killer applications.
in any case, really excited about the upcoming presentation
The only way I see this product making any real impact is being a breakthrough health, medical, and/or accessibility device. With very good examples of the product utility across those areas showcased. Assistive technology and adaptive tools, etc.
Absolutely. My father had one eye and of course something like this would have had limited usefulness for him.
The other commentator was talking about not seeing 3D due to an issue with convergence insufficiency where the eyes don’t both focus on the same spot. I was just speculating that a dynamic system like this that tracked each eye and generates a synthetic focal plane could conceivably compensate for that convergence. I don’t know if would work but I do find that possibility interesting.
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This is very interesting.
I'm sure Apple will put health sensors in this.
I've heard that you can check a lot of stuff by analyzing the eye... Like blood sugar levels and other issues.
Fixing some eye issues with the help of advanced sensors will also be a huge, huge deal.
I'm more excited about this now than I already was.
Even is someone only has one functioning eye, VR still has value, unlike 3D TV/Cinema. Seeing the virtual world from a natural perspective is an advantage. And you still get advantages from the 3D nature of the virtual world—when you move your head position, the image your eye receives changes. This is not the case with 3D cinema.
That's one area where I could see something like this helping the disabled, even mild vision problems. Smart focusing glasses, but it'll be awhile, not a V1.
There's a big problem with that, while it could show the image to me in the right way, even as f'd up as my eyes are (Duane Syndrome), but my brain wouldn't know how to handle it. It's been kind of proven that correcting vision in severe strabismus cases over a certain age, it doesn't let them see in 3D. Humans learn that very young as our brains are being wired to the world.
It's a cool thought though. I truly wonder if it's that much different.
But not being able to see in 3D isn't so bad, it's nothing different than normal past 20 or 25 feet, then everyone sees distances by perspective. That's the way I see in close and it doesn't look anymore flat than I suspect it does to others. Unfortunately the 3D image trick just looks like 2 unrelated separate images to me.
Actually 10-15% of mankind can't really see in 3D for one reason or another. Good that you got healed, I can't imagine an eye infection that bad, and it's so close to the brain!!
No, lol. You didn’t need to go there anyway. My first post was humor that some got. I’m not a big promoter:fan/advocate of VR or AR. So my saying what I did was equivalent to saying that I’ll be interested when they do the impossible. Explaining it just makes it less fun to me.