Apple Planning to Launch Vision Pro by February

[YankeeSR23]

Anyone planning to get one just to stash it, fully sealed, and let the value rack up for resale years down the road?

If I was a millionaire, sure. But seeing as I’m an ordinary person, if I get one I’m going to use it, and hopefully enjoy the heck out of it.

 

[YankeeSR23]

Huh? You realize that the Vision Pro runs Safari. You can load up any website you want. 🤣

Oh god, I wonder how the Reddit community is going to enjoy it with all the NSFW subreddits on there.

 

[satchmo]

Anyone planning to get one just to stash it, fully sealed, and let the value rack up for resale years down the road?

Won't these be a lot cheaper down the road? Unless you're just kidding and I totally missed the joke.

They definitely will be a lot cheaper, more so if the product flops.

Regardless, I doubt a sealed VisionPro will see a 100x return like the OG iPhone sold for earlier this year.

 

[Ghost31]

The porn world is about to explode.

And so am I

 

[HurtinMinorKey]

I hope it can handle high mbps (>200mbps) 8k 60fps video files. It won’t be able to do high quality VR games with fully rendered environments in real time due to GPU limitations, so it needs to nail things like immersive video and AR experiences.

 

[jimbobb24]

I'm finding the custom lenses are turning me off -- does that mean you can't share it with family and friends for them to check it out? That seems like half the fun of getting one...

Single user currently...the absolute biggest fail for a device of this price range. Same problem with the iPad pro...single user. Still going to get it for work and see how it does.

 

[Harry Haller]

Looking forward to developing for this.

 

[jimbobb24]

Remember the rule: never buy a first-generation Apple product. No matter how tempted you may be.

Version 2 is typically a much better device than version 1, fixing most/all of its major flaws.

My work is buying this so I will just buy the first and second gen...

 

[jimbobb24]

Since the realistic cost of this thing is sure to be over $4k, I'm sure millions of people can't wait to buy this thing and completely disorient themselves for 2 hours in public at a coffee shop or airport or something and then say smug **** to passers-by like "they are part of the Spatial Computing Evolution(tm) and I can't wait to see you there in a few years when Apple makes it more affordable for normies."

I feel at least 5 of the members on this forum will say some eye-rolling cringe stuff like this to other people, desperate, almost more than Apple, for the Vision Pro to actually be relevant to everyday people and not some hobbyist toy.

I am eager to buy it and expect sales numbers to be less than the mac pro. Rumors say apple is making less than 250K. There is no millions for this...its super niche.

 

[subjonas]

But no second event and we still have absolutely no video of Tim wearing the thing? Somethings off.

No images of anyone wearing it other than in very controlled marketing material, right? I wonder if that’s because they haven’t gotten EyeSight to work yet.

 

[Harry Haller]

I hope it can handle high mbps (>200mbps) 8k 60fps video files. It won’t be able to do high quality VR games with fully rendered environments in real time due to GPU limitations, so it needs to nail things like immersive video and AR experiences.

An M3 Max version with hardware ray tracing and dynamic caching should.

 

[Analog Kid]

Looks like I'll need to schedule an eye exam for January...

 

[AlexJaye]

For all 7 people who will buy it, how nice of them!

 

[tomsaccount]

I still am surprised by the requirement to purchase in person. This creates a limitation for people with disabilities and immune deficiencies that would otherwise have appreciated an opportunity for a cinema-like experience.

 

[newdeal]

I wonder if it will really release with the M2 chip. I bet it will and then shortly after they will release a cheaper version with the M3. This could be why the M3 pro has fewer performance and more efficiency cores than the M2 pro does

 

[seajack0h]

Why is the M2 chip suddenly not worth any value now that the M3 is out? Simply because an iterative M3 is out? Those of us packing Macs with M1's still get the same value out of the machines we bought as on day one.

The M2 chip in the Vision Pro is only one part of the whole device. Adding an M3 won't make a huge difference, and by your logic, would become obsolate by the time M4 comes out.

Because 3 > 2.

 

[tongxinshe]

`Production has been "running at full speed" for the last several weeks`. You mean, like 100 units a day? Any more than that, it will be piled up along every steps of the inventory storages. At that price point, only totally insane people would be interested.

 

[zach-coleman]

Apple never reduces the price of particular models, no matter how long they are sale. For example, the 23.5” iMac was on sale for $1,299 for the last three years prior to the M3 update.

Future models may be cheaper, but they also aren’t the limited-run original model, either. The original, new-in-box iPhone was the model that has recently been selling for $40,000, not the iPhone 3G.

Not true. They reduced the price of the iPhone 2G like 60 days after launch.

 

[GraXXoR]

People with this type of mindset are hilarious. Like do you not know what stocks and investments are?

Stocks and shares may well be the orthodox way, but in all fairness, mint condition unopened first edition iPhones boxed do indeed sell for many thousands of dollars.

I very much doubt that the first Apple headset will do the same though.

 

[HMI]

Any chance I’ll be able to stand in a line for this for old times sake?

 

[zach-coleman]

I hope it can handle high mbps (>200mbps) 8k 60fps video files. It won’t be able to do high quality VR games with fully rendered environments in real time due to GPU limitations, so it needs to nail things like immersive video and AR experiences.

Was there any M2 device that didn’t ship with WiFi 6E? It should be pretty well equipped.

No images of anyone wearing it other than in very controlled marketing material, right? I wonder if that’s because they haven’t gotten EyeSight to work yet.

I really believe eyesight isn’t working yet. In the recent tour they got journalists to watch spatial video, the employees said they couldn’t see the users face, and they generally seemed secretive about the whole thing. The guy who said this brought up an interesting question for me, what does the Vision Pro show on the external screen and on FaceTime if you’re crying? Surely they didn’t code tear reproduction, right?

 

[Harry Haller]

Any chance I’ll be able to stand in a line for this for old times sake?

Those were the good old days.

 

[subjonas]

The guy who said this brought up an interesting question for me, what does the Vision Pro show on the external screen and on FaceTime if you’re crying? Surely they didn’t code tear reproduction, right?

Good question. I hope they don’t put in cartoon Animoji tears.

 

[Harry Haller]

What about Kabuki tears?

 

[progx]

Won't these be a lot cheaper down the road? Unless you're just kidding and I totally missed the joke.

There might be a Vision set without the Pro name on it. Don’t know when that’s coming out. If we follow the original Apple Watch timeframe, it might be about 2 years before they add a model like that one.