How do you be productive with this thing? If you have to talk to it, it's not appropriate for an office. If you have to use a keyboard, then it's just a $3500 monitor for one person with less than 2 hours battery life that you still need a mac for. If you're just using it to scroll through photos, or make facetime calls, then it's less useful or versatile than a mac or an iPhone.
Your praise for the iPad is based on it being a productivity machine, rather than an eReader. But so far no one online or any developers have announced an actual use for this thing that isn't better served by existing devices or traditional monitors. Apple will never get to an endgame product if the first (and subsequent) iterations fail because no one can figure out what to do with it in its current design.
Road warrior on long flight in coach (often ME). There's not enough room in front of you to open up a laptop enough to use it well on your lap or tray table. But there is enough room for the keyboard + trackpad 'half'. Slip on these and get work done on the long flight instead of NOT getting any work done because there's simply not enough room to use the computer.
Yes, one could pay up for first class to get the space to use a laptop as intended... but it won't take much first class premium to cover the cost of owning Vpro.
It won't be "just browse photos or just FaceTime"... this thing can show our eyes ANYTHING as if we are actually there. How much do people pay to stare at a flat 2D screen strapped to a Peloton bike to sort of feel like they are riding in all those destinations? That's basically a narrow "tunnel vision" approach limiting your riding view to the width & height of that little screen. With this, the Peloton "pro" rider could look left, right, up, down and behind to see where they are riding, making that illusion of riding in such places seem far more real. If part of the fit-developing "productivity" on a Peloton is the illusion of being in such places, this should enhance that illusion many times over the "as is" experience.
Have an amateur taste of this right now with one of many VR 360˚ Bike Riding videos on YouTube. As this plays, click & hold on the video, then drag left, right, up & down etc so you can simulate looking in various directions...
Unlike the existing Peloton experience where you can only basically look "straight ahead" unless the person filming the experience decides to pan around
for you, this will let you turn your head to look at the other riders, the attractive person jogging down the beach, the sunrise over the water, etc. Just look around as you can do when riding an
actual bike and turning your head to look "over there", "up there", etc. You'll see what is over there... out of the frame of the "as is" Peloton small "window" on that locale.
In that video example, the rider has the camera strapped to the bike, so you can't look behind (else you are looking at the rider)... but professional applications for things like Peloton will likely shoot with a camera at roughly rider eye level, so that the experience is very much like
actually riding and thus, able to look
anywhere, including behind you... more like THIS example...
That very niche-y example can be spread to countless other applications where showing one's eyes anything makes the user that much more productive. Why do some people assemble 2, 4, 8 or more screens on a desk?
Apparently, they are- or feel- more productive with all of that information available to them at a glance. This makes that kind of productivity available
anywhere one happens to be... instead of only that one spot with what might be a couple hundred pounds of physical screens, supports, wires, racks, desk, etc.
And on and on.
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