Apple Vision Pro is too much for me

[Sami13496]

For me personally Apple Vision Pro feels like too much. Too much tech. Too much stuff on your face. Too much money.
I hope Apple would make something like this:

It could be Vision Air or whatever. For me use case with MacBook would be more than enough. I mean I wasn’t too excited about stand alone device. I personally wouldn’t use it outside my home anyway. Used with Mac all the apps are there already, no need to wait for developers to make stuff for visionOS. For me the beef is ability to look at stuff on big ”screens”.

Anyone feels like me?

 

[kkee]

I am excited with what Vision Pro would bring in the future. The more developers put their hands on this thing, the more things developed from 'just imagination' to 'it's going to be new reality.'

 

[JPack]

Looks like a kludgy design. Outside of techies, most people don't want to be connected to a base station, whether that's a MacBook or iPhone. And if you think about the human interface, using your MacBook keyboard/trackpad or iPhone touchscreen just seems really restrictive for such a massive display area.

The most innovative feature of the Vision Pro is the external display. It's what separates other headsets and glasses from Apple's product because the display makes it socially acceptable.

 

[bkkcanuck8]

Even when he had not said it yet, I realized it was a sponsored video (just the way he started in). When it got to the nose clips for the glasses, it reminded me of a video I just saw about another one from Linus (of Linus Tech Tips). The headache thing that was mentioned in the video below has a lot to do with movement disagreement between focal point of image and reality I believe... may be made worse by glasses not significantly out of location to where they are designed to be. I do wonder though if there is a common whitebox manufacturer between these two companies.

Linus Review of Glasses

I went to the website and it already put me on my back feet, I was going there to find details or basic specs... and the first screen was pre-order, then it was buy now screen I believe... and I was going - please sir, please let me see some basic specs... Finally found it, and the specs were ... black... and a few other things, but nothing much about potential resolution of the screens... retina at the display is not going to give you the resolution if they are saying 227 PPI... but they can't seriously be saying that... but they did say 400 Nits... Vision Pro 5000 Nits, this 400 Nits... I wonder if the way they display things make those numbers directly comparible... I don't know. At least if they don't work out you are only out of pocket $350.... so basically a Meta Quest worth.

 

[bkkcanuck8]

I was scanning down the list of comments seeing if anyone claimed to have experience with it - this is the first one... the two bolded things are things I was guessing might be the case. (confirmation bias?)

"I picked up one of these months ago and I’m not impressed. You get what you pay for. The resolution is pretty poor and it’s dim. The Nebula software is in beta and is a royal pain to use with numerous bugs. Many of the features advertised don’t work yet. It does give you access to virtual monitors for your Mac, but they’re tiny and hard to see. The worst part is that I need glasses and they won’t give you any help with obtaining prescription lenses for the included sub-frame. It shows promise, but it’s not ready for prime time, definitely a work in progress. The Rokid Air (and Pro) is a competitor for this with an advantage that they have adjustment dials for those who need glasses, so there’s no additional lenses required." -- @techinrl9869

 

[bkkcanuck8]

CNet Review

CNet Review of XReal

"Each of the lenses of the Xreal Air AR glasses features a 1080p display, and the glasses can act as a second monitor for any USB-C or HDMI device."

 

[Sami13496]

That’s why I wrote that I wish Apple would make something like this. They would get the basics right. I’m not surprised if user experience with XReal isn’t quite there. But I like the concept more than monster of a headset that is Vision Pro.

 

[bkkcanuck8]

That’s why I wrote that I wish Apple would make something like this. They would get the basics right. I’m not surprised if user experience with XReal isn’t quite there. But I like the concept more than monster of a headset that is Vision Pro.

This is an interim product - not the 'real' goal of the research... but the Apple Glasses that Apple wants to build - is still a fair distance down the road before it is even possible to do what Apple wants with it. When Tim Cook talks about it being the future, he was not talking about the Vision Pro line (referring to his talks with investors during the earnings calls where he referenced AR).