As someone with a lot of VR AR equipment, I am really curious about the feature price ratio. For me, the Quest 2 has the most market influence because it does enough right while staying near the impulse buy price range.
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Apple Mixed Reality Headset Renders Depict Rumored Design
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No chance it looks like that. Simply put, it doesn't look 'fancy' enough for Apple. Especially when you consider the rumored price.
head strap reminds me of those nasty metal clamps you put on garden hoses to mend them when the connector falls off or you have a split hose.
Design looks very familiar to me.Designer Antonio De Rosa has created 3D renders of Apple's long-rumored mixed-reality headset based on recent reports about the device, giving the first photorealistic look at the mysterious Apple device.
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$3000?! This VR headset is making me feel sick, and it’s not just motion sickness.
On a side note, I’ve found VR to be little more than a gimmick at this point, fun for 5 minutes but not practical or very useful (and yes, I may be biased seeing as it makes me literally vomit). It’s exciting to see what Apple will do with it however.
On a side note, I’ve found VR to be little more than a gimmick at this point, fun for 5 minutes but not practical or very useful (and yes, I may be biased seeing as it makes me literally vomit). It’s exciting to see what Apple will do with it however.
Please tell me you just forgot to put the sarcastic emoji in this comment. Apple puts their logo on their phones, desktop computers, laptop computers, tablets, iPods (in the old days when those were still made), and TV set top boxes. Far fewer items without it, than with it.
Regardless of aesthetics, they’ll definitely make you* dumber.
*the universal you, not you specifically 😃
I've got "mixed reservations" over virtual or augmented reality. Actually reality is hard enough. Throw in $3k and that's a no.
Actually, what would really be great is if the front was a touch screen and ran iOS. People could then use you as an iPad while you are sitting there enjoying a different reality.
As a Oculus Quest 2 owner, I'm looking forward to seeing what Apple does here in a high end headset. Oculus has put together an amazing little device for $300 with a very seamless experience. I used to own a Vive, and every time I used it I would have to spend at least 30 minutes getting everything setup just right for it to work. The Quest can be in game in under a minute, even if you have to setup boundaries again.
The main problem with the quest is still display resolution. It is not usable for virtual desktop's at its current resolution, and the pass through cameras are black & white and very grainy.
The main problem with the quest is still display resolution. It is not usable for virtual desktop's at its current resolution, and the pass through cameras are black & white and very grainy.
"Bloomberg explained that Apple has developed a system in which custom prescription lenses can be inserted into the headset over the displays." Now THAT is going to be a cheap option.
Just trying to think what the general purpose use case for this? Unless Apple is accepting that the eventuality of client computers is through devices such as these. After all, 40 years ago, no one would have thought we would have a computer in a clamshell like the MacBook Air, a smart phone like the iPhone, wearable devices like the Watch and AirPods. So, maybe Apple is seeing this as the next leap.
Did anyone else find this movie incredibly depressing? Everyone I knew was terrified that this is where we are heading. It's not a leap.Design looks very familiar to me.
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I remember people saying, oh my god an Apple II for $1400! in 1977 $5500 in todays money. Who is going to spend that kind of money on a home computer. And the rest was history. So saying $3000 for a futurist product that could can change how we work with computers and on devices is not really expensive. I have been using my Oculus Quest 2 for the last 4 months and have loved the experience.
I use it a couple of times a day and when used with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 it changes your world flying around the world in a plane. Thank You MacBook Pro 16 with a Razer EGPU box and a Nvidia 3080 card the system has change my stuck at home life.
IIRC, earlier articles suggested it was mostly a developer device and only 1 per store per day would be sold.
I mean that might be what the "Developer Kit" version looks like, but I am 100% unconvinced the final "general consumer" model that would come later would look anything like that.
