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Apple Vision Pro Testers Share Impressions: 'By Far the Best Headset'
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This is a very early version of this product line. Will it be the future of computing? Not sure, but it's pretty certain that in 15-20 years this thing will become the size of a pair of regular glasses. So I'm fine with a company like Apple making this, because it's what pushes human technology forward.
Well - you can browse Safari. So that'd be a yes!
$3,499 will pay for a handful of hookers. More if you're not picky.
No headset required. (maybe a blindfold)...
I’m not going to buy one of these, but I can see value of being able to bring your entire workstation with you with just this and a physical keyboard. Instead of bringing a laptop and a couple monitors with you.
So wait for what’s obviously and clearly coming in a few years time 🤷♂️
I’m not buying one, but this whining about price when it’s right in line with HoloLens and Magic Leap costs is just silly. It’s not a VR headset competitor.
You guys can’t force it to be comparable to a VR headset, because that’s not the point of this thing.
Sorry but this woman would act like a giddy 12 year old even if Apple released a turd for $5000. Can’t take her serious.
Oh, man, I can just see & hear it now. Jobs up there on the stage, a live audience, and him saying:
"You know, people have been trying to get me to develop a VR headset for years now. And I take a look at what's out there on the market, and they're all these huge shoe-boxes duct-taped to your head!"
"Nobody's going to wear these! Nobody! There's even some company out there that pastes your eyes on the outside of it!" (Audience laughs.)
"If Apple is going to enter this market, it HAS to solve something important, and it HAS TO LOOK COOL."
At which point Jobs puts on a fashionable jacket, and pulls out a pair of "Ray-Ban Aviator"-style sunglasses (except they're hooded) out of the jacket pocket - …
…puts them on his face…
…and then Steve Jobs strikes a fashion pose, like only a true celebrity can.
--> THAT'S how Steve Jobs would introduce something like this! <--
This is pre-release gen 1, and it already seems better than par for gen 1 Apple products. Intuitive and smooth interface, slightly chunky hardware, somewhat half-baked software, priced high, questionable market. This is similar to how the iPod, iPhone, and Watch were received. The killer app is already here—it’s the UX. The rest will follow in time. Hardware will shrink, battery life will grow, software will mature, price will come down, and the market will eventually catch fire. Imagine this with a 2nm chip, 8K resolution, 6-hr battery, and smaller/lighter, for around $2k. I would buy in a heartbeat.
True and while tablets are definitely not niche - their use-case is fairly limited still.
Working on the iPad is still quite pain compared to the MBP. Their weight difference is not even that different (with magic keyboard). And stage manager is just bad compared to the full macOS experience.
If someone prefers iPad to MBP for their work and owns both, I would truly like to know the reasons and advantages of such choice.
It has an M2 chip... and I think that's an important part some folks are overlooking, as usual being distracted by other things. The big failure of Meta, in my mind, was in trying to get people to come to the metaverse rather than the other way around. Where Apple absolutely clobbers others is in performance per watt, and that has serious considerations to developing Gen 2, 3, 4 and beyond... within a practical limit of battery consumption.
What I don't get is why they didn't place the battery on the nape-band so that it would act as a counterweight. I guess nobody at Apple has used night vision goggles because what causes fatigue is not weight per se but that weight not being balanced on the head which puts strain on the neck muscles.
"Why do I need an iPhone when my flip phone makes calls just fine?"
By far, the only part of the big reveal worth watching was the demo of the beating heart. This would be a huge help for medical students and a taste of what AR could bring to the masses if AR Glasses ever came out.
Considering the price I would ****ing hope it's "by far the best headset out there."
I'm impressed by the technology behind it and I'm sure it delivers a great experience, but I dread a future where people wear this thing instead of looking at their iPhone all day, which is bad enough. Until the technology fits into a pair of standard glasses, I hope spatial computing does not catch on, or at the very least, remains niche.
I'm impressed by the technology behind it and I'm sure it delivers a great experience, but I dread a future where people wear this thing instead of looking at their iPhone all day, which is bad enough. Until the technology fits into a pair of standard glasses, I hope spatial computing does not catch on, or at the very least, remains niche.
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