People claiming this is done and not coming back are like the guy from IBM in the late 40s or early 50s claiming there was a market for something like 4-5 computers globally.
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This is a new market and it’s very, very early. Existing cheaper headsets are mostly toys used for toy things. Because there’s been no capable hardware yet. The Vision Pro series will kick start this. It may take years, but it will happen as technology enables it to be miniaturised.
People claiming that Apple need to do a stripped down device to sell are entirely missing the point.
This is not built to a cost to move units. It’s an early access device built to a capability set to enable new uses cases.
If you want a quest, buy one. They exist. They’re great for what they are. They aren’t trying to solve the same problem at all.
Vision pro is an early device for devs and users to play with to see what we can do with it. Forget that it is a heavy dorky box. In 5-7 years it will be a pair of sunglasses with the same capability set (or close to that size anyway).
Thats what they’re now developing software for. This is just the first hardware version to assist with creating the ecosystem for the future.
This is a long term project. ARkit has been in development for this for about a decade. It ain’t going anywhere.
Having a crappy cut down version with less features would not establish the hardware baseline Apple deemed appropriate to create a new platform with a baseline feature set.
I mean people here would have predicted no market for laptops based on this
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