Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Reportedly Still Planning High-End and Low-End Versions of Second-Generation Headset in 2025
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Im assuming you will still be able to order online like always. And get it shipped directly from the China factory like all apple products.
I was thinking that the SE might be more of a VR/AR monocle. Like a mashup of Tim Cook and the Monopoly guy…
Do you remember what the economic environment was like when the iPhone was first released?
7M / 365 is about 19K stores. Really think the Best Buy out in remote Kansas is going to sell one $3K headset per day? Doubtful they sell one $3K Mac per day and that as a much more broad spectrum, mature software base .
Similarly there are worldwide premium resellers , but $3K pushed through some not so favorable foreign currency exchange conversions is going to make that relatively even more expensive in those locations ( that isn't going to help sales per day). What is going to happen at the Apple Store in Palo Alto probably isn't going to be replicated everywhere.
Online sales probably aren't half of sales, but that isn't going to really solve the math problem either.
If Apple sold 1-2M this would be a good first year. 7M smacks of very wishful thinking by someone who has lots of extra cash burning a hole in their pocket. There are likely lots of stores whose customers don't have that (and not going to see 1 per day at all. )
Someone has to move this forward. I think it’s ten years too soon but with all that apple money trying and failing is a healthy sign.
I think they’re confident what this will become when the glasses tech is mature enough for release. The goggles are merely laying the UI and UX groundwork for it.
The “low end” models will essentially be the high end models everyone will be dumping on E-Bay in a year or so…
I completely agree that Apple’s expectations don’t seem realistic. I was just responding concerning the seemingly mismatching store count though.
We also priced the iPad much higher before the introduction, PS3 VR is $600.
If it's wire-connected to a Mac then it won't need a battery or M3 processor, it would just be a 3D-monitor controlled by the Mac. That should lower the price significantly.
Come to think about it, the Mac Studio + 3D glasses together would then be about $3000, lining up with the rumours.
Apple will never ever consider using fresnel lenses in their devices not even in a million years.
Not even in an ultra-low-end device.
Perhaps. I mean, if Apple sees an opportunity to play up a technical “feature” in order to justify a higher markup, you can bet they will.
But I was referring to the mention of “lower resolution lens” in the article. That makes a lot more sense for a fresnel unit.
I'll tell you why there is no chance, because fresnel lenses will make the device much more bulky and heavy, and the fresnel quality is trash - it's 100% anti Apple.
They will also won't use an LCD with no true blacks in a VR/AR device that overtakes your vision, also anti Apple.
Actually, for many applications, a fresnel lens can be made thinner (lighter, less material) than the traditional counterpart.
If Apple has somehow managed to break the current paradigm of using rasterized pixels through a lens for VR/AR, they’ll get my attention. Until then I’m with those that say
“Move along. There is nothing to see here.”
In a simple minded way. You are right. I have own Apple Products since 1978. Owning many devices in etc.KUO has not even close to be what he used to be years ago. Most predictions are either wrong etc.
It's all a matter of price and benefits, if they can make it so the form factor will be small and light and the quality not be that bad, and the price will be much lower than the alternatives, then sure, but from what I understand the fresnel work in a way that the screen must be much farther away, making the device very bulky. I just can't see Apple releasing a device that looks like a Quest 2, even if it's low end.
MR just reported another rumor a couple of weeks ago suggesting apple was only expecting worldwide sales of 1 million units in the first year.