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Apple Vision Pro Lacks Wi-Fi 6E Support
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The real story is the lossless low latency wireless protocol. Reading through the FCC reports now while pretending to know what I'm seeing /:
Lack of GPU supporting Metal with Mesh Shading/Ray Tracing
It’s on less than M3
How many people have wifi 6 in their homes?
I'm still using an Apple Airport Extreme from like 10 years ago, and I am not having any Wi-Fi problems with my MacBook Pro M3 Max! 😃
I love that this is what makes it a disappointment for some.
Never mind the price, the tethered battery, the battery life, the bulkiness, the lack of any meaningful reason for it to even exist… it’s the lack of Wi-Fi 6E that’s the dealbreaker.
Never mind the price, the tethered battery, the battery life, the bulkiness, the lack of any meaningful reason for it to even exist… it’s the lack of Wi-Fi 6E that’s the dealbreaker.
And people thought Tim would surprise us all with an M3 instead of M2 😂
I do. The older 802.11ac (wifi 5) operates only in the 5 GHz band, while 802.11ax (wifii 6) works in both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. That mean you can have your oldest devices all on 2.4 Ghz (802.11n). 6E just adds the newer 6 Ghz band that is useful in dense urban settings with its reduced range/less interference.
Its been around for quite a long time now and is relatively inexpensive. We are about to have Wifi 7 at a general level too.
Its fine that it doesn't have it as most consumers don't have 6E yet...but its also a feature that V2 will have and everyone will lose their minds about how much better it is.
It should have 6E for the price. I'm not in the market for a $3500 whatever term Apple allows us to use that isn't AR/VR headset so my opinion doesn't matter.
Absolutely pathetic. I can understand it not having WiFi 7 (which it should really have) but not 6E?
One more reason to not buy this junk. Wait for 2nd gen model.
One more reason to not buy this junk. Wait for 2nd gen model.
6E absolutely makes a big difference on the Quest 3. Streaming wireless PCVR requires a ton of local data moving at the lowest latency possible.
This does not bode well for any features of AVP that involve streaming from another device like Xbox/PS5 streaming or simply using your Mac from within the headset. It's going to be likely the same experience as Meta Horizon Workrooms on Quest - choppy and inconsistent.
There are a lot of missing /s tags at the end of all of these hyperbolic statements. Hard to tell the difference between the trolls and the ... other kind of trolls 
I just upgraded to WiFi 6 in my house last summer, from 2.4ghz g/n. No intention of moving up again anytime soon.
My home office has ethernet anyway.
in a home environment - prob not a big deal but in an office environment yes it should have 6E. From a office standpoint any AP refreshes will have 6E in them (Wifi 7 AP units are barley just hitting the market right now and I mean enterprise not the home crap)
it really comes out to how bandwidth-intensive it is....
it really comes out to how bandwidth-intensive it is....
I suspect it's about Apple managing risk. With the AVP design being frozen before the M3 was fabricated and available.
Otherwise, if there happened to be flaws in the M3, or if the yield was poor, or if there was a delay for whatever reason, that would ripple into causing the rollout and availability of the AVP to be subsequently delayed as well.
Much better to go with a proven M2, and then transition to whatever M-series proven chip is available for the next AVP upgrade.
iPhone isn’t even in the same price range as this thing. You’re buying a $3,500 device (or more) that doesn’t support an “old” WiFi spec. WiFi 7 routers and devices ship now.
Google can put WiFi 7 in their smartphones from last year which are cheaper so why can’t Apple do it with iPhone or these goggles?