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Apple 'Vision Air' Headset Rumored to Feature Thinner, Lighter Design With 'Midnight' Finish
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If it was the same price as an iPhone Pro…
Oh wait, I just woke up! What a dream!
Oh wait, I just woke up! What a dream!
I'd be totally down for a lighter, more compact VR headset. Ditch the outer glass and make it bare bones. Keep the optics and sensor array. Maybe figure out a way to make it out of carbon fiber (carbon fiber infused with copper strands?) as it's about half the density of aluminum.
Bring the price down, reduce the weight, and remove some gimmicks like the weird eyes on the front, and what the heck, I’ll buy one. I saw some great promise for work use and productivity myself but can’t justify the price.
Nothing more tone deaf from Apple than another visionOS product.
Keep working on the AR Glasses and wake us when they're ready. Until then the world will continue to ignore bulky, tethered, world-isolating headsets...at any price.
Keep working on the AR Glasses and wake us when they're ready. Until then the world will continue to ignore bulky, tethered, world-isolating headsets...at any price.
I spent most of my working day with it on today, with breaks for only a few minutes here and there. I use the Annapro headband, and all day use is absolutely achievable with no suffering at all.
Worth a try if you know someone with one 👍🏻
I can guarantee you the trade in value will be around half of what you paid for it.
AVP are just blinders to keep Tim Cook from seeing what Apple and its customers actually need.
Jesus Christ Apple with another new lightning cable? Just doubling down on wasted cable connections while claiming some world saving climate initiatives.
• You can still use it while it’s charging,
• you can use a physical keyboard,
• eye strain might be a thing for some people—not for me but it is a thing. Either due the vergence accommodation conflict due to how all VR, MR and (most) AR products are designed; So everyone could be susceptible to eye strain if for example a dense amount of virtual text is too close to you for a long period of time. Also could be due visionOS’s emphasis on eye tracking as a form of targeting input which I was initially (and to some degree still am) skeptical of. Fortunately visionOS has very robust accessibility settings so you can switch targeting off the eyes and map it to hands.
When you use it as a display for Mac computer, the keyboard of that computer becomes a primary input. I don’t think you even can use the virtual keyboard to type to your Mac.
Since you’re sitting by the computer, you can stay connected to power.
I don’t know what you mean by eye strain. Sometimes I put on the Vision Pro because my eyes feel strained staring at the laptop screen. The virtual screen can be made bigger or moved closer or farther away.
I don’t always put on AVP to use my laptop. It does have comfort issues, but eye strain is not one of them for me.
Releasing interim devices is how they work on eventual AR glasses. What I'd suggest is that you ignore articles about the space the same way you choose to ignore the current products.
Many of us have made a different choice and do have interest in the product line as it evolves through Apple's continued development. You do not speak for "the world."
Oh boy. Frankenlightning! Apple just can’t help themselves when it come to designing new proprietary connectors to stick on things.
Surely a standard USB4/Thunderbolt port would supply all the bandwidth and power the Vision Air could ever need, along with the compatibility and versatility that proprietary solutions lack.
They don’t even have MagSafe’s supposed safety benefits as an excuse with this one.
Surely a standard USB4/Thunderbolt port would supply all the bandwidth and power the Vision Air could ever need, along with the compatibility and versatility that proprietary solutions lack.
They don’t even have MagSafe’s supposed safety benefits as an excuse with this one.
Tim Cook has cheapened the "Air" name by applying it to products that are not the lightest in a product category. For example, the "iPad Air" is heavier than the iPad mini. Cook has also released a "MacBook" which was lighter than the MacBook Air.
Cook also cheapened the "MagSafe" name by using it for an iPhone charger that does not detached if the wire is yanked, thus it does not keep the iPhone "safe" in any way.
Cook is clueless when it comes to naming devices. For example, the iPhone X was released without there ever being an iPhone 9. Clueless Cook doesn't care as long as he's making boatloads of money for himself and his shareholders.
Cook also cheapened the "MagSafe" name by using it for an iPhone charger that does not detached if the wire is yanked, thus it does not keep the iPhone "safe" in any way.
Cook is clueless when it comes to naming devices. For example, the iPhone X was released without there ever being an iPhone 9. Clueless Cook doesn't care as long as he's making boatloads of money for himself and his shareholders.
I bought and tried a Vision Pro for two weeks, and the two things which really made me unable to keep using it was the weight and the "tunnel vision" (low FOV). Personally I think they should get rid of the glass and external display to make it lighter & cheaper. Plus, the glass cracking on some peoples headsets made me nervous about my own. I ended up returning it on the last day.
I've been using mine alot mainly as an extended display. I'm bummed my latest freelance role requires a locked down windows machine.
Possible that there can be a new colour. But not sure when it will launch. Also wonder how much cheaper Apple will make the 2nd generation of the product. Maybe it is possible to lower the price substantially to $1999 if EyeSight feature is removed.
Yah I have some corporate laptops that I'm trying to figure out how to show on Vision Pro. Possibly some HDMI input into personal laptop into Vision Pro.
I can in fact speak for the world, using the data the world has already spoken with. "many" of you are actually a very small few of you. Not enough to keep a product category alive for very long.