Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Vision Pro Launches in UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Australia
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Yep. And the return window is 14-15 days. The return rate would have been highest right after launch, when people were more likely to not know what they were purchasing.
Certainly looks like it should have been marketed as an enterprise product, but Apple is pushing it as consumer.
As enterprise, expectations for app ecosystem would be very different and it would be understood that specialized applications need to be developed (often in-house) by the customers. Using @ChrisA ’s example, a company producing a CAT scan device would invest in developing the software to utilize AVP with their own products.
As a consumer product, it is little more than an entertainment media consumption device and even that is a tough sell for a lot of us who commonly enjoy such activities in a group.
Sounds like a really convoluted way of saying 'great for porn'
I could.... if it was comfortable enough. And for me the resolution is too low versus using actual high resolution monitors (not to be confused with the resolution of the VP's screens, before someone tells me they are the best of any headset). I simply can't think of anything worse than wearing a headset for hours and hours on end. I've tried and it is a horrible experience.
Anything for the clicks...
Man I'll bet it'll stink after a few of his super sweaty rides
…Spatial and private computing, 3D movie playback, and a far more convenient portable and on-the-go screen for a wide variety of computing use cases an iPad Pro and Macbook Pro can't be used as well for.
It’s often far more productive to transfer a 14/16” Macbook Pro's screen output to a Vision Pro as well—especially more so with 2.0’s 5K2K mode (4K ultrawide); a 5K2K on-the-go is definitely meaningful value to have for prosumers.
Last edited:
Speak for yourself. Before the Vision Pro, prosumers didn’t even have an option.
Before the Vision Pro there wasn’t even a standalone headset option to watch premium home video on parity and better than 4K TVs—essentially all other standalone headsets don’t even have HDR (let alone Dolby Vision HDR)
Name a Prosumer of theirs they do this at launch the past decade
You can believe that if you want; the world is a diverse place where people can speak way differently than you do.
Conveniently ignoring the topic at hand to focus on such things is textbook ethnocentrism and a blantant ad hominem fallacy.
$4999 CAD.
Ouchiee! I normally defend the price since it's still a Pro product, but seeing the price in CAD still stings. 😳
or is a developer, which is def the primary target market - a 3.5k investment for a company for dev work is negligible
That reminds me of when I was 8 or 10 years old. My Mom would make me wear a hat in bitter cold and I was afraid of how I’d look.
I believe this should have been marketed as a replacement for screens and maybe a mouse. I can see people buying this as a replacement for a Studio Display (not portable so no battery.)
…The target audiences of Apple's prosumer devices does not focus on gaming on such devices; the specs of Apple's prosumer devices are directly combative of an ideal gaming experience. The Vision Pro is no different.
Also you cannot get a bunch of current-gen-exclusive modern AAA games released in the same year for 100 Euros; games this gen cost $70 USD minimum.
Nice change of goals. You asked what the AVP can do better than a Mac. The Mac doesn't have cameras and depth sensors to do spatial computing. It can't display stereo images so that they look three dimensional. It can't give you 180 degree immersive videos, or 360 degree environment. If you take spatial videos or photos on your iPhone and look at them on you Mac, they just look flat. But look at your photos on the Apple Vision Pro, and they have a more lifelike depth. The AVP can place solid-looking objects in your physical space, so you can walk around them, and interact with them.
All of these things the AVP does BETTER than a Mac.
I just hope there will be demand for healthier displays in the future when major portion of population goes blind before 30. I had a poor vision since school because of accidental self trauma, but only thanks to my old OLED iPhone 11 Pro in just 1.5 years my vision deteriorated TWICE because I worked with this phone (social media). And I have been in front of screens since my childhood, during university days too. And the older LCD displays weren’t as eye-damaging as the new OLED ones
Did your optometrist tell you that OLED caused your vision deterioration?
I recommend that those who haven't tried it give it a shot. The demo is really interesting. This product just needs to find it's stride. Remember when everyone thought the Apple Watch was pointless?