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Apple Shares Vision Pro Specs: Up to 1TB Storage, M2 Chip With 8-Core CPU, 16GB RAM, and More
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Gosh….. man as much as I love apple, as much as i am a huge fan of the brand, i will not pay this much money for that. This is absurd. Thanks to all the ignorants that falls for this and actually go buy this thing, Apple continues to be greedy as hell.
So how does that GPU work in games, which seems to be the only real mass market draw for a VR headset. From what I understand the M2's in iPads benchmark maybe 20% ish higher than the Quest 3's Snapdragon XR Gen 2, but have to display in much higher resolution (albeit with some advantage with foveated rendering). I don't mean the 250 crappy "app" games Apple announced for it, I mean "real" games. I'm really surprised they didn't announce partner game like something from Capcom, but then again seeing the GPU and battery life maybe not so surprised.
Edit: Just to add I wonder how much throttling the M2 will have to do in games, further reducing its output. It's a shame there won't be any open source tools to force games into VR like the Quest line has, Apple's walled garden and all that.
Edit: Just to add I wonder how much throttling the M2 will have to do in games, further reducing its output. It's a shame there won't be any open source tools to force games into VR like the Quest line has, Apple's walled garden and all that.
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I think their better priorities bud, i agreed with you. In my case, i have the money to buy this thing but seen how greedy this brand is, my love for the brand continues to dit down more and more. I think Warren buffet is laughing is old azz seen how rich is getting right now.
It would be cool if Resident Evil 4 could be run in VR. But I'm not sure if the M2 is powerful enough to do this and if the thermals can support such loads.
This new device sure indeed is a beta product. ignorants are buying a beta product.
Really? I thought Apple was going big on giving the Apple Vision Pro a "cinema" like experience with this thing.
That's my thoughts as well, especially after reading some material on how the M2's throttle a ton on iPads to manage heat/battery life. Honestly it's a bit baffling to me that one of the main draws of today's VR headsets, gaming, is really almost fully omitted. I'm hoping there will at least be some sort of pass through gaming through a laptop/desktop.
No Dolby Vision/Atmos at this price point?! Not as ‘Pro’ as it could be.
Both were confirmed by Apple a few days ago.
Dolby Vision is a type of HDR.
Apple confirms Dolby Vision HDR on Vision Pro, plus which streamers it will support – and 2 big ones are missing
The Vision Pro's Cinematic Experience is shaping up nicely, but where are Netflix and YouTube?
With that logic literally everything is a Beta product.
Pretty sure it supports both. Dolby was talking about it at CES.
No, it is not. It is fully functioning product, at an early point in its development. Those that are buying modyly fit one of three categories:
- Developers - people who plan to use it to make money (developing software for it).
- Enthusiasts - people who really like AR/VR.
- Professionals - people who plan to use it to make money (using it for some specific application).
Yeah thanks that’s already been addressed by another poster 👍
That said, I think circa two hours will give a lot of users serious charge anxiety and they’ll end up permanently tethered to an outlet. Pretty gnarly in my opinion.
But every other headset is the same way. I suppose they can make bigger batteries down the line that ya can stuff into a backpack lol
Fair enough. I have no experience with headsets and intend to keep it that way until the end of time. I was just surprised by 2+ hours 👍
It's fine if it's too rich for your blood... a lot of people share that opinion...or reality... but you dilute yourself by declaring those that purchase it as 'ignorant.' This isn't about Apple greed, it's about Apple Tech.
"So how does that GPU work in games, which seems to be the only real mass market draw for a VR..."
Thinking AVP is only about VR games totally misses the point.
"Ignorants" are those folks dissing a new product from the world's by far most successful tech company before the new product is even released, let alone had time to mature.
It is a surprising choice indeed. It does seem like the logic board was basically ready and unchanged by mid-2023, but the software was not. So they demo'd it at WWDC to garner some developer support, and then spent another half year or so to polish visionOS. At some point, they must've made the call "let's not put any further R&D into the hardware; it's good enough for a 1.0", already knowing that the M3 wasn't going to be far off.
I don't think it matters in the long run; they can (and very likely will) iterate with an M3 or M4 sooner in a year or two. Perhaps even late 2024. But it's not what I expected.