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Apple Hosts Special Vision Pro Event for Developers

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Apple used the launch week of the M5 Vision Pro this week to run a two-day "Meet with Apple" program for developers, with a focus on building immersive media and interactive apps for visionOS 26.

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Apple invited developers to its Developer Center in Cupertino, hosting sessions on how to create Apple Immersive Video, design spatial interactions, and use features such as SharePlay and spatial Personas.

During this Day 1 livestream, we'll show how visionOS 26 can help you tell impactful immersive and interactive stories. You'll learn how to frame your creative ideas for formats like Apple Immersive Video and explore real-world examples from past productions. You'll discover how to design for spatial interaction and tell stories that make the audience part of your experience. And you'll find out how to use SharePlay and spatial Personas to help people connect over your ideas.

On Day 2, we'll dive deep into Apple Immersive Video and Apple Spatial Audio. You'll discover how to create entirely new media experiences, get started with Apple Immersive Video, explore new production workflows, and dig into previous Apple Immersive productions.
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Full recordings of both day one and day two are available for replay on the Apple Developer YouTube channel. Apple announced the M5 Vision Pro on October 15 and in-store availability began on October 22.

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While this is great and should help with building apps, it’s the price of the device that is a larger deterrent for the general population.
 
MacRumors said:
channel. Apple announced the M5 Vision Pro on October 15 and in-store availability began on October 22.

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for me, the best use is watching high-quality films. For some reason, the HBO Max app has dropped the immersive environments. Granted they only had one, but it was still a nice way to watch a movie. Also, it would be nice if there were other film watching apps that had the ability to use the Apple immersive environment of being in a movie theater.

And for the haters and trolls that are gonna post the negative comments, yes, it’s expensive so what. The latest MacBook Pro is also quite expensive.
 
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Still waiting on that killer app.

Price isn’t the biggest problem if there’s a good use for it. People will easily drop $2-3k on a MacBook Pro. Clearly, the problem lies elsewhere.
 
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CyberBob859 said:
The Vision Pro gets more love from Apple than the AirPods Max, Mac Pro, and all HomePods combined.
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Because it needs to. AirPods Max are a “buy it or not”, product - it is what it is, Apple made it, Apple sells it, they’re not going to put money into advertising it or investing in the current iteration. Same with the Mac Pro

also the same with the current HomePods. If a radically new version is released, it’ll be pushed, but not the current iterations.

The uses cases of what these three are, what they do and what they don’t do, has been very clearly defined by Apple. The use cases for the Vision Pro are not - Vision Pro has a “cool, but is it really useful?” Problem .

More importantly, Apple doesn’t need third party developers to make those three you mentioned more marketable. They desperately need third party developers to make the Vision line relevant.
 
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CyberBob859 said:
The Vision Pro gets more love from Apple than the AirPods Max, Mac Pro, and all HomePods combined.
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Does it? One is just a Mac which has hours and hours of developer videos and documentation every year - and the other two are speakers, there's not a lot of love they can give those.

The Vision Pro is a new computing category for Apple that needs developer love and input.
 
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Still waiting on that killer app.

Price isn’t the biggest problem if there’s a good use for it. People will easily drop $2-3k on a MacBook Pro. Clearly, the problem lies elsewhere.
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You're right - I had one at first but returned it as I couldn't justify the cost of its use.

However if it was more comfortable i'd have bought it to use as a Mac display alone - it was genuinely enjoyable to have the big Mac display and be surrounded by widgets and apps.

It was also the best VR experience i've ever had and I've had Meta Quests since they were the Oculus Rift. The resolution was good at times your trick your brain for a split second you were really seeing the thing.
 
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the AVP is not a product, it's an insurance policy.
Apple are terrified that their precious iPhone could be replaced by something (AR, VR, MR, ambient computing, whatever magical pendant Ive is cooking up with OpenAI).
I'm pretty sure they're jumping at shadows though. Smartphones will remain our main computing devices into the foreseeable future.
 
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You're right - I had one at first but returned it as I couldn't justify the cost of its use.

However if it was more comfortable i'd have bought it to use as a Mac display alone - it was genuinely enjoyable to have the big Mac display and be surrounded by widgets and apps.

It was also the best VR experience i've ever had and I've had Meta Quests since they were the Oculus Rift. The resolution was good at times your trick your brain for a split second you were really seeing the thing.
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I’ve seen multiple comments on here about how the best use for VP is as a Mac display/entertainment. If that’s the case why doesn’t apple just lean it to that and make a VP lite that’s stripped of all unnecessary components, make it plastic and sell it for around 600 bucks. I’m sure it would sell
 
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JPack said:
Still waiting on that killer app.

Price isn’t the biggest problem if there’s a good use for it. People will easily drop $2-3k on a MacBook Pro. Clearly, the problem lies elsewhere.
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I totally agree. The "killer app" must exist and the use experience must match. Decided to get into the AVP when Citrix, Firefox and emClient were at a level on the iPad that using them in the AVP environment for work made sense.
Working with patient health information as a physician, the AVP (and probably also now the Samsung equivalent just introduced) offer a user experience that the "glasses" with multi-desktop can not equal. Have and use the Xreal glasses with my favorite Windows system, the AVP comparable GUI yields much more productivity. I am excited for the future of this technology and hope Apple and Samsung continue to iterate in a way that makes this technology more useful for others than niche pathways to get meaningful work done.
 
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CyberBob859 said:
The Vision Pro gets more love from Apple than the AirPods Max, Mac Pro, and all HomePods combined.
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Yes. Nope, unintended but it really is a vision for the future of computing. This device is like the Newton. It was way ahead of its time. The Newton ultimately failed, but the concept of the Newton lives on today in the ipad

I’m really happy to see that Apple, like any business needs a short term strategy, a medium term strategy, and a long-term strategy. I’d say this device fits in the long-term strategy. And it’s OK if it’s a loss leader at the moment.

The other things you’ve mentioned such as headphones, which have been around for at least 60 years, laptops, which have been around for at least 30 years our legacy computing devices. Yes, they should be updated but it’s not a potential game changer.
 
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JPack said:
Still waiting on that killer app.

Price isn’t the biggest problem if there’s a good use for it. People will easily drop $2-3k on a MacBook Pro. Clearly, the problem lies elsewhere.
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The killer app for me is the immersive way to watch high-quality films. I don’t have access to a good movie theater and this is rekindled my love for movies. And yes, I do have at home. A very very large 4K TV but the Vision Pro is much better for watching films
 
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JoshuaBru said:
I’ve seen multiple comments on here about how the best use for VP is as a Mac display/entertainment. If that’s the case why doesn’t apple just lean it to that and make a VP lite that’s stripped of all unnecessary components, make it plastic and sell it for around 600 bucks. I’m sure it would sell
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Because the technology inside of it is very very expensive. The display, which I think is made by Sony is already quite expensive so there’s no way to make this into a cheap device like Facebook is trying to make.
 
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JoshuaBru said:
I’ve seen multiple comments on here about how the best use for VP is as a Mac display/entertainment. If that’s the case why doesn’t apple just lean it to that and make a VP lite that’s stripped of all unnecessary components, make it plastic and sell it for around 600 bucks. I’m sure it would sell
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Because it doesn’t fundamentally solve the “killer app” problem with Vision Pro, nor does it improve social acceptance. Apple isn’t in the market for making a huge monitor. Most people don’t need one and it’s such a small market. The market is clearly leaning towards glasses, which don’t have that social isolation problem.

Samsung’s XR device retails for $1,799 and has a much higher resolution than Vision Pro. But still, the core problem remains.

Gurman doesn’t believe Apple sees a future either with VP.

“I wasn’t surprised that Apple chose not to cut the Vision Pro’s price when it released the M5 model, but doing so probably would have helped the device. The problem is, Apple doesn’t really believe in this category in the long term.”
 
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MacRumors said:


Apple used the launch week of the M5 Vision Pro this week to run a two-day "Meet with Apple" program for developers, with a focus on building immersive media and interactive apps for visionOS 26.

Vision-Pro-M5-Demo.jpg

Apple invited developers to its Developer Center in Cupertino, hosting sessions on how to create Apple Immersive Video, design spatial interactions, and use features such as SharePlay and spatial Personas.



Full recordings of both day one and day two are available for replay on the Apple Developer YouTube channel. Apple announced the M5 Vision Pro on October 15 and in-store availability began on October 22.

Article Link: Apple Hosts Special Vision Pro Event for Developers
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