Newton, iPod, iPhone, AirPods (and Max), Vision. Yes, yes they do. You might say it’s the core competency at Apple, in fact. Even Microsoft had an Arm laptop years before M1. I think the iPad was relatively original, I don’t recall a lot of other devices preceding it but may be wrong.
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Apple Surveys Vision Pro Users About Competing Headsets and Smart Glasses
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If you agree that Apple want as much useful data as possible then you must also agree that sending to non vision users also would be useful.
I have no idea why Apple sent to vision pro users only but consider two scenarios;
1. I own a competing device and Apple do know why I chose that instead.
2. I own a competing device and Apple do NOT know why I chose that instead.
Which is generally the better position to be in?
give us some glasses with iphone quality video/photos and perplexity! thats all it needs to compete with meta glasses.
They should also send this survey to users that bought it and sent it back after trying it. I had it for two weeks and sent it back because it was too uncomfortable and heavy for me. Apart from that I found it amazing.
Only relevant answer: “Create a device that doesn’t give me a headache and make me look like an idiot”
Dude, he’s talking about the development of the technologies that will underpin these mystical future glasses. The Vision Pro is a technological marvel in itself, and they sure learned valuable lessons from it.
Let’s ease up of the hyperbole, it’s a VR headset. It’s a really nice one, but it’s a not like they couldn’t have continued to explore this tech internally.
They could’ve asked people first—before spending billions on a product that now just sits in closets collecting dust. It didn’t need to be branded as an Apple survey, just a general one about interest in VR headsets or lightweight AR glasses.
Yes, Steve Jobs once said:
Strapping a brick to your face and walking around in public? Not so much. VR headsets have mostly been a niche product for gamers and developers. Apple tried to create one for the general public—with a high price tag—but it simply wasn’t practical.
Even Nintendo had a headset once. I barely used it and ended up selling it after just a couple of months.
Yes, Steve Jobs once said:
That philosophy worked for him, but the risks Apple took back then were much smaller. Sure, products like the Apple Watch and AirPods were successful—but they’re still compact, practical, and truly portable.
Strapping a brick to your face and walking around in public? Not so much. VR headsets have mostly been a niche product for gamers and developers. Apple tried to create one for the general public—with a high price tag—but it simply wasn’t practical.
Even Nintendo had a headset once. I barely used it and ended up selling it after just a couple of months.
Using something like Meta Ray Bans/Oakley glasses would be very difficult here (Germany), you can wear them in your own home, but using them in public would be a GDPR nightmare - you can't take a photo or video of other people, company names, logos and contact information has to be blurred out, car registration plates have to be blurred out etc.
That is possibly why sitting at home with a Visio Pro type headset is more appealing to me than something like the Ray Bans.
That is possibly why sitting at home with a Visio Pro type headset is more appealing to me than something like the Ray Bans.
Haha, there’s a clearer way of writing that, but it takes far more words.
I can add this: It’s not too heavy in the sense that it’s not like my neck gets tired or sore. But quite a lot of tension is required to keep the device positioned. That tension is what hurts. So the weight could be reduced, or it could be closer to your eyes, or more friction on your face, or better weight distribution.
In the article the other day suggesting a roadmap for products, there was one called ‘display accessory’ which was put on hold.
I really feel that would be a viable product if it’s something as small as (or smaller than) a Bigscreen Beyond, without having a light shield.
It could just connect to your Mac or iPhone by just looking at it and then it mirrors the displays in 3D space.
It's like - I bought a 3G Apple Watch years ago but I could count on one hand the number of times that I have left the house without my phone in my pocket.
I really feel that would be a viable product if it’s something as small as (or smaller than) a Bigscreen Beyond, without having a light shield.
It could just connect to your Mac or iPhone by just looking at it and then it mirrors the displays in 3D space.
It's like - I bought a 3G Apple Watch years ago but I could count on one hand the number of times that I have left the house without my phone in my pocket.
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No offense, you just joined this site. Many of us have been around a long time, and have seen a lot changes.
Vision pro is a solution searching for a problem and at 3,500 its out of reach for the majority of consumers.
Exactly what I thought.
In a product that's withering on the vine, there's very little value in understanding more from those that actually bought and kept it.
It's everyone else that you need to poll and figure out how to address.
Apple forgot to ask if they have watched the new F1 movie.
Strangers can still be polite. Some people have written thousands of comments to strangers on a web forum, so it probably matters to those people.
It’s an amazing (and uncomfortable) solution though. Or, if the problem is having to work in an office on a computer, it offers a better view.
That "tension" is due to the excessive weight, man. Just admit it, it's ok.