No one said it wasn’t cool before. This is just your anti-Apple bias orientation speaking.
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Apple Shares New 'Get Ready' Ad Ahead of Vision Pro Launch
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Vision Pro will be away more useful than you, so really strange joke.
EDIT: Just to clarify preemptively clarify, this is not an insult at the original commenter. It is a statement on the utility of the device, and how clearly this device will be more useful to the purchaser than the commenter being a “useless purchase” (their words) for the buyer. It just wasn’t a good joke, and it’s another example of the reflexive need to crap on Apple on these threads. Very tiresome.
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Despite the fact that your wife has never seen the value of an Apple Watch, Apple would love for "This could be that, but even more so." Apple sells more watches than all of Switzerland does.
I don’t know that the Apple II was technically affordable for most people. Nor the Macintosh. The iPhone was slammed for being too expensive. To say 99.9% of customers “cannot” afford this is just too loose language. ”Afford” is relative in many cases, not absolute. To the point where I’m not sure it’s worth even mentioNing. Also, I’m not sure Apple intends for this to be “affordable”. Later versions will be, surely.
But we must be negative and cynical, so let’s carry on.
I love the cord that hangs down from them. Where does that go? Into an outlet? LOL
I think there are a tonne of use cases, especially commercial ones. Hell, for my writing, I'd love to be able to put scene and character cards on a massive virtual display, rearrange the order, modify details, and flip between projects without having to bluetack things to the walls all over my house. The price is high, so it's out of my reach, but hopefully as the tech develops, that will change.
nicely done Apple. marketing starts the week of CES, NCAA championship and NFL playoffs.
very excited to see how well this does. love the ad!
very excited to see how well this does. love the ad!
When you are the world's largest most successful tech company you have quite a bit of latitude in how to introduce a new product category.
marketing trying to normalize goggles with popular or iconic images.
Yes, you point out the obvious about All technology.
...PS5, plugged-in, ...X-box, plugged-in, Internet Router, plugged-in, ...Desktop Computer, plugged-in, wifi access points, plugged-in ...& on & on & on
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...yes, yes, ...And batteries, for our mobile technology.
So your pointing out the limitations, of battery technology, in the year 2024. ...kudos, ...but you do know that battery technology is product agnostic?
..And more importantly, "the current battery technology in 2024"
takes absolutely nothing away,
from the "revolutionary computing interface",
that is the Apple Vision Pro.
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“I'm sure that in 2054, plutonium is available in every online drugstore for the VisionPro implant, but in 2024, it's a little hard to come by.”
This ad appears 1) misleading, 2) unimaginative and 3) sad. Sad because it ends with that single, lonely woman in an IKEA showroom putting it on and doing nothing but looking at a menu.
Lame.
Lame.
Seriously. Forget 70+ years of abject industry failure around 3D content. This is Apple!
An Apple II wasn't really affordable for most people. MSRP of a 64k Apple IIe in December 1983 is $1,395 or around $4,200 today.
There was a whole computer industry that popped up in Europe just because Apple and IBM machines were priced into the stratosphere for them.
So knowing that and what you've just said, $4,200 is technically affordable.
Fusion 360 is extremely buggy on Apple silicon. It ran a lot better on my I9 before I upgraded in November.
I don't game and never have so in order for something like to appeal to someone like myself it would have to be useful and comfortable.
A tall order, going by what I'm seeing now. Then again, the gaming market may be enough for considerable sales.
A tall order, going by what I'm seeing now. Then again, the gaming market may be enough for considerable sales.
I got the Meta Quest 3, even though I'm planning to buy the Vision Pro. I had been promising my kids that I'd get the Quest 3, every time they asked me to get the Quest 2. The Quest 3 seemed like a significant upgrade from the Oculus Go I had previously.
Your friends getting the Quest 3 because they can't afford the Vision Pro reminds me of a Commodore 64 club I belonged to in the mid-1980s. We loved our computers, but we all agreed we'd buy a Mac if we could afford it.
Anyway, my kids love the Quest 3, and I'm hoping it will ease the sting when I tell them they can't use my Vision Pro.
What I'm looking for with the Vision Pro is a more polished interface, higher resolution, and integration with my Apple ecosystem. I'm impressed with the Quest 3, but getting my personal content on it (spatial videos and other 3D movies and images that I've taken with other 3D cameras) is a pain.
get ready for what is the big question. 3.5k or more is a hefty price tag for a product without a clear killer feature.
Let's face it, in the professional CAD space, it's AutoCAD or bust. The rest are all marginal products at best, especially on the Mac. No serious CAD professional uses a Mac. If AutoDesk doesn't support Vision Pro, there's really no CAD market for Vision Pro.
Except you're not getting all these Mac displays. Only a single display. How are you going to push five 30" 4K displays over Wifi? Not happening. Of course native Vision Pro apps are a different story.
All this needed to be was an inexpensive dumb VR headset with superior optics that airplayed from a iphone, ipad, or macbook. I'm not wearing a full blown mac on my face for hours on end.
Actually, I think the market declared 3D "not cool" pretty loud and clear. 3D movies have always been a hard sell. 3D TVs were a huge flop. So, yeah, very few people thought 3D was cool or it would be omnipresent by now. The technology has existed for decades. The public doesn't seem to want it.
