That's my issue with this thing. I have it on for say...20 minutes and I am ready to come out of it
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Apple Vision Pro Named 2024 'Innovation of the Year'
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.Well deserved award. I don't own one nor am I interested but I can definitely appreciate the incredible technical accomplishment
I love the product, unfortunately I have succumbed to headaches and migraines. I really want to be able to use the product. Do you have any suggestions to make it more comfortable? I am thinking about buying the Dual Loop band, and right now instead of Zeiss lenses, I am just wearing my contacts inside of Vision Pro. Hopefully I will be able to get the Zeiss once I get my new prescription from the doctor today, and be able to upload it to Apple.
It makes sense in medical practice, I can see VR/AR as having tangible benefits there. For most people, most consumers, they DO NOT have an interest in VR/AR, nor do they want to have to wear this thing for it. It's a product that just doesn't have much appeal.
Do you have multiple batteries? How long does it take to charge a battery between uses?
8 hours a day basically means you go through at least 4 cycles of batteries. Since removing the battery and attaching a new one shuts down the machine, how annoying is it to get all your previous screens back to where there were?
It's sort of skewing to call that industry out when prototyping and manufacturing are weak though I assumed we'd have strong demand from our customers that are aggressive with the adoption of new technologies. It's not quite ready for prime time and needed a few more years but Apple had no appetite for that after the car debalce- their collective hand was forced by the board I suspect. I tend to think AR glasses is the end game and this will be looked at in hindsight as the stop gap it truly is.
While it's interesting to be able to use it for Mac-centeic workflows it's also a damning indicator that the product can't standcalone without an escape hatch and leaning on another platform for heavy lifting. I find that sad
This. Even at $200, people probably still would skip over it because it has to be strapped onto your face.
To my surprise, the number has increased to 50, contrary to Macrumors Forum members assertion that it has only been two to three people for the longest time.
It’s 50 of us now! I can’t wait to meet them at the introduction ceremony.
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'Innovation of the Year Award' from Popular Mechanics - Paid for by Tim Apple.
I don't care about the cost, at all, but I will add that my employer (large research hospital) has already tested it and ruled it out as useful, or even allowed, in surgeries.
The tech is technically impressive. It doesn't mean I want anything to do with it, and of the couple people I know that bought one, neither use it anymore. One sold it, and other has powered it on since October.
Well, so is the XDR Pro Display that professionals use. Seems like professional use cases are popping up every day in the medical industry, the high tech industry, etc. for the AVP.
One battery. I keep it plugged in most of the time. I’m seated all day except for a few times when I get up. If I decide to wear the VP out of the room with me where I’m walking, I’ll unplug. It would be nice to have more battery life I guess, but the battery isn’t a concern for me and my use case.
So when I take off and put back on, all the screens are right where I left them. The virtual display has to be repositioned, but that’s very quick, and I’m usually regularly repositioning it based on my current body position for convenience purposes.
No r&d cost which often is 90% of cost for early product introductions no material or construction costs for the device. There is much more than component costs.
I guess it is their lost...
Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro
More than 20 surgeries have recently been completed by headset-wearing surgeons at UC San Diego Health
I think it’s fair. While VR/AR has been around for YEARS, affordances Apple showed less than a year ago quickly became “the way things should look”, ending up all over the competition. Much like all smartphones are said to be just some variant of the iPhone, the same may come to be true for VR/AR.
Locked down ecosystem and single user? I sure hope not.
The single user bit is absolutely obnoxious, to the point of being absurd. Seriously Apple, for that reason alone, you suck.
The original iPhone required a Mac or PC to even turn the things on and synchronize content to them.
Sure, the iTunes Wi-Fi music store, the App Store, etc would later be added with software updates.
But the original iPhone couldn’t even play music without being connected to a computer first. I’m pretty sure version 1.0 didn’t even allow you to edit your calendar events on the phone but only from a computer.
The iPhone didn’t even allow set up or software update without a connected computer until iOS5 in 2011, four years after the products introduction.
Eventually, assuming this product sticks around, and I bet that it will, more and more of the things you need Mac virtual display for will become native to visionOS.
It might not ever fully replace macOS, but much like the iPad it will sneak closer and closer until a Mac is only needed during very specific workflows.
It needs to be taken off and put on like a pair of (bulky) glasses, only then will it go mainstream, the idea of strapping this thing around your head like a pair of goggle with weight on it will always be a niche product.
The original design had the right idea where they put all the guts in a separate standalone unit then wireless connect to a lightweight headset. If I remember correctly the person who advocated for this design lost the battle and they went with the standard all in one heavy headset
The original design had the right idea where they put all the guts in a separate standalone unit then wireless connect to a lightweight headset. If I remember correctly the person who advocated for this design lost the battle and they went with the standard all in one heavy headset
Another solution would be to use "Eye Stickers"...
It all comes down to this: If you want to talk to me while wearing my AVP, don't expect me to take it off. If you don't like the way my eyes appear on the front display, go away, because that's all you are going to get from me.
Android is a modified iPhone UI that supports multiple users and doesn’t have a locked down ecosystem. If a single successful headset ships in the future without “pinch to interact” though, I’d be truly surprised.
The Vision Pro is ready for the Consumers. The problem is that not many Consumers are ready for it.