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Apple Vision Pro Testers Share Impressions: 'By Far the Best Headset'
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Exactly. People not having a clue what they are talking about and comparing low end junk devices. It's like comparing a feature phone to the iPhone. There is a market there for high-end devices, like you've shown. It may be small but it will serve to filter the tech and features down to the mainstream in time.Not for AR, this is kind of standard. For example:
Starts at (checks notes) $3500.
Magic Leap is $3200.
Maybe apple will make a Vision (sans Pro) next year, drop the whole eyesight screen on front and remove the glass front to save weight.
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This company are making high-end VR/AR headsets close to the the Vision Pro, with the computing focus and are targeting enterprise. They're working with some of the world's largest corporations. Even their devices don't look to come close to the Vision Pro but their highest spec model is €6495.
It's not for everyone yet and it's not meant to be. And that's fine. The annoyance of dumb self obsessed fanboys particularly on this forum, who behave exactly as expected and previously demonstrated getting aggravated because Apple isn't 1000% focussed on their needs 1000% of the time.
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Mass adoption for a 3500 dollar gadget won't happen. While it's impressive, it's of limited use.. You're not gonna walk outside with it and has only 2hrs of battery. Definitely niche. Wait for version 10 when it shrinks to be contact lenses. Lol
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The game changing product that could come out of this would be the sunglass type device that has all of these capabilities..
But it appears we are so far away from that at this point. I’ve never tried an AR/VR device, but my concerns would be strapping so many electronics to my head from a health perspective and any nauseous feelings.. this won’t be a cigarette type situation where incidents of brain tumors just explode in 15-20 years from now, correct? I’m not a doctor so I’m not caught up on whether any of these concerns even exist.
But it appears we are so far away from that at this point. I’ve never tried an AR/VR device, but my concerns would be strapping so many electronics to my head from a health perspective and any nauseous feelings.. this won’t be a cigarette type situation where incidents of brain tumors just explode in 15-20 years from now, correct? I’m not a doctor so I’m not caught up on whether any of these concerns even exist.
To an extent a lot of people said the same about the iPhone, it was a premium high-tech device that pretty much made calls, sent text messages, and had nice apps for everyday things like a web browser, notes, clocks, and contacts. There was no App Store for a year.
Give the Vision Pro a few more iterations and it'll have its "iPhone 4 moment", and the masses will flood in. And definitely don't underestimate this products potential impact (remember what Steve Balmer said about the iPhone?).
No, he would have bullied the team into making it half the size with triple the battery life. Then he would have pulled it from his jacket pocket and worn it for a 6 hour launch event.
I see so much potential for this headset to help people with disabilities. Even low vision folks who need to have bigger screens in order to interact with the virtual world. Indeed a game-changer device! The future is now.
Vision Pro Headset: $3,499.00
Zeiss Lenses for the Vision Impaired: $400
Spare Battery: $250
Spare Forehead Band: $199
1TB Memory Upgrade: $500
Vision Pro Polishing Cloth: $199
Tax: $505
Total: $5,552
Memories of your bank account as you gaze longingly at the new addition to your closet shelf: Priceless
Zeiss Lenses for the Vision Impaired: $400
Spare Battery: $250
Spare Forehead Band: $199
1TB Memory Upgrade: $500
Vision Pro Polishing Cloth: $199
Tax: $505
Total: $5,552
Memories of your bank account as you gaze longingly at the new addition to your closet shelf: Priceless
Man I cannot wait for the consumer model to get announced so I can get one
It literally is how we got from iPhone to iPhone 14, but I’ve seen how not everyone has the capacity to understand.
How many people out there are trying to build massive things on 16" screens? Cinematic VFX, skyscrapers, airliners, spacecraft, gigantic codebases. It's ridiculous how much zooming and panning we're doing all day because our screens are way too small for the work we're doing.
With the price of the headset maybe now people will understand why existing VR headset makers did not go down the 'heavy technical' route as Apple have because they knew it would turn out to be very expensive and they wanted something consumers good afford so they sacrificed on technology to achieve that goal.
I’ve read multiple hands-on impressions now and, by reading between the lines, you can tell this product is far from perfect. Moreover, even at this price point it doesn’t look like they’ve managed to solve many of the current VR helmet limitations such as seeing the goggle black borders in your peripheral vision. Something that Verge has pointed out. There is also no haptic feedback on this helmet either, which is puzzling, considering the PSVR 2 has that while costing almost 7 times less. I think Apple still has a long way to go with this. They will probably iron it all out by the third generation.
It would never make it to market because the Goggles are an exercise in Tech Engineering Doing Something Because they Can, not because they should.
The Superlightweight earbuds apple makes are barely tolerable after wearing for a couple hours, imagine this monstrosity. This is why Tim Cook is a failure. Even the presentations are more focussed on the underlying tech, instead of what it can actually do.
Maybe Tim Cook wants to capture the VR Porn business, where this might work. lol
If I can do InDesign layouts or complex photo or video edits with 'massive screens' anywhere I am, that's a massive win for me. This is all about future potential, shifting the paradigm and developers. And for all the technology and R&D costs, I think the price is pretty fair, Apple didn't cut any corners with this thing. I'm sure there's things that Apple haven't even thought about yet. And how amazing for paraplegics.
I might not buy into it just yet. But I did buy a Gen 1 iPhone when tbh it was a joke compared to what the iPhone 14 is.
Steve would so have worn it on stage and all of us would have sucked into the reality distortion field!
I might not buy into it just yet. But I did buy a Gen 1 iPhone when tbh it was a joke compared to what the iPhone 14 is.
Steve would so have worn it on stage and all of us would have sucked into the reality distortion field!
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Is Apple Polishing Cloth compatible with Apple Vision Pro? I don't really want to pay $199 for Vision Pro Polishing Cloth.
Remember folks, Admiral William Adama had old school phone lines running through the ship to save humanity. Ain’t nobody strapping goggles with scanners and AI to my head. I'll be at the plant nursery buying $3500 of trees and perennials instead.
Notice how MKBHD calls it a VR headset. Kudos to him, calling it like it is.
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I want one as well, not sure that I can justify the price. However, later iterations might get me there.