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Apple Vision Pro Supports Virtual Typing, Navigation Through Hand Gestures and Eye Movements
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Good luck with that! There's zero chance that anyone can be efficient and proficient in Excel using this headset as is. Maybe in 5-10 years, maybe.
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This may have been answered but the Power Glove did not provide haptic feedback. The Power Glove pretty much sucked a__! But it looked cook, that is for sure.
Good luck doing real work on this thing as is. Imagine trying to create/modify large Excel spreadsheets with hand gestures, or God forbid using Siri. Or creating a large Word document by air-typing or using your virtual keyboard on a hard surface. No thanks. I'll take my physical hardware all day long and I will out perform anyone using this thing when it comes to getting real world work done. Of course you can add a physical keyboard and mouse but that means more hardware right off the bat. That takes away from the whole experience.
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It will be interesting going forward to see how it breaks down. As physical keyboards become less prominent, speech to text will probably become the standard but there will always be holdouts that cling to physical and virtual keyboards too.
Certain apps do require more hand-eye manipulation but many of these same apps will also become obsolete. I don't use Excel much but I've seen assistants like ChatGPT make the creation by humans of large spreadsheets and formulas completely unnecessary. A few quick prompts does in seconds what it can take minutes for a skilled data manager to do. And since it's pure data and not internet-based "facts" or opinions, there is little chance of incorrect data or AI hallucinations.
So you want to use ChatGPT to do your work for you, got it. I honestly weep for our future. By the way, you still have to enter in most of the data for the columns and rows into ChatGPT, so you're really not saving nearly as much time as you'd think in the scenario you've mentioned. You can still save some time overall though, that I won't argue. Asking ChatGPT to create complex spreadsheets and having it done properly is something that isn't going to happen for many years, if ever. Good luck asking ChatGPT to create a detailed spreadsheet of tens of thousands of users containing PPI or any HIPAA related info. For grins, I recently asked ChatGPT to create an Ansible playbook for shutting down PeopleSoft app servers and its output wasn't even close to what you'd need to make it work.
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So does your computer do your work for you? ChatGPT is just another tool. Those who understand it will use it to get the job and do the work. Those who walk into the job interview and say that they are the best at making spreadsheets and don't have any use for something like ChatGPT are not going to get the job. Just common sense job tech industry stuff.
Haha, funny you mention "tech industry stuff" because I work in software. Yes, ChatGPT is a tool, but you made it sound like it was going to do your job for you. If that is the case, you won't have a job for long now will you? Back to the original point, good luck getting serious work done with this headset, as is. Not to mention the fact that wearing it for several hours a day, multiple days every week is going to cause you vision problems over time at best. We don't know the worst case scenario yet, but this device isn't bringing anything healthy to 95+% of the population. That I can assure you.
I run a small wireless tech company with my brother so I'm all for giving employees the most tools to get the job done. But if they cannot justify their position, their position is in peril. They won't be replaced by AI in my lifetime, but they will be replaced by a person who has a better grasp of AI tools in the next few years. As far as the headset goes, I think we will be seeing many alerts for people using it for more than 1 hour to take a break. I also think we'll see some medical integration constantly scanning your eyes for fatigue and even potential vision problems. That's a very Apple-like precautionary measure.
Whoever does that for long will simply get fed up and go old school...which means using an actual computer or tablet.
Try to rationalize with some of your limited functional part of your brain. You are comparing between 2 completely different products with completed different nature of the products. You should remind yourself of visiting a doctor specialized on brain disfunctionality.
Nothing about haptics so far, but it would be interesting when using the virtual keyboard if you could hear key clicks! 🤞🏻
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It was revolutionary but Gen 1 iPhone was hampered and lacked a lot of features phones on the market already had. It was obvious iPhone would be the way of the future but its first model didn’t sell that well and lacked features. The same goes for VisionPro.
A bit off topic, but I disagree with your comment that the original iPhone didn’t sell that well and lacked features of phones on the market. It actually sold very well, considering it was only available through AT&T (in USA), and more to the point it was a singular item in a market filled with all manner of cell phone form factors and features.
And like the Vision Pro, it did things most other cell phones of the day couldn’t or if they did certain things it was generally a horrible user experience. Without arguing the benefits of any feature of the VP goggles, they certainly are doing things that no other VR/AR headset can do currently…and I’m sure that Apple will build out and refine the UX and hardware over the coming years in exactly the same way they did with the iPhone. It’s just going to be a slightly different model as Apple isn’t targeting the general population with the VP, so it will start off selling to more niche categories of customers and hope that they can scale and push it out to the general population.
Good Gawd, no. The spreadsheets I deal with are too complex for this to work. Mispronounce a syllables and ever cell could end up #REF.😰 It's bad enough that Excel misinterpret everything as a date.😏
There is a reason modern GUI OSes have a terminal app (command line interface) for when GUI is too clumsy or imprecise for what you need to do.
And this is different than sitting at a desk to work on your computer, or a couch to watch a movie on a TV?
That may be so, but I’m curious:
What other headset were you thinking of that can adjust between AR (where you can see your real world environment & walk around the room without bumping into furniture) and VR (total immersion) - with various levels in between?